Wall Street’s meltdown last year continues to yield hiring opportunities for small advisory firms, veteran dealmaker Joseph Perella said on Monday. Perella Weinberg Partners has grown steadily to 275 people since getting started in June 2006, and managed to recruit its inaugural partners when…

Throughout history there have been many notable marriages. Exxon and Mobil. Pfizer and Warner Lambert. AOL and Time Warner. Brad and Angelina. But few combinations have had the impact within their universe as Thomson and Reuters, who got together last April in a $17 billion deal that rattled the…

Boutique advisory shops are the credit-crunch survivors among financial institutions because they haven’t relied on business volumes or writing loans for profits, Joseph Perella, chief executive of boutique Perella Weinberg Partners said on Tuesday. Perella’s partnership is better placed to…

Boutique advisory shops are the credit-crunch survivors among financial institutions because they haven’t relied on business volumes or writing loans for profits, Joseph Perella, chief executive of boutique Perella Weinberg Partners said on Tuesday. Perella’s partnership is better placed to…

When Zhou Enlai, the former Chinese premier, was asked about the effect of the French revolution over 150 years after its conclusion, he replied: “It’s too early to say.” While few investors in 2008 have investment horizons of that duration, vestiges of this type of long-term thinking are…

Hobbled financial markets have spoiled the buyout party for Wall Street’s big investment banks, yet demand for independent advice is undiminished, famed dealmaker Joseph Perella said in an exclusive interview. Small “boutique” banks such as Perella Weinberg Partners…

Hobbled financial markets have spoiled the buyout party for Wall Street’s big investment banks, yet demand for independent advice is undiminished, famed dealmaker Joseph Perella said in an exclusive interview. Small “boutique” banks such as Perella Weinberg Partners–now Unibail-Rodamco, Europe’s…

The New York State Insurance Department has hired Wall Street firm Parella Weinberg Partners for advice on the financial health of bond insurers. A spokesman for the department, whose chief Eric Dinallo held a meeting last week with executives of several top Wall Street firms to explore…

When GLG Partners Co-Founder Noam Gottesman told investment bankers Joseph Perella and Peter Weinberg last spring that he wanted advice on selling a stake in his hedge fund firm to Freedom Acquisition Holdings, a special-purpose acquisition corporation, the bankers were a bit puzzled. London…

As the Hewlett Packard boardroom spying affair was unfolding, I actually sympathised with the instinct of Patricia Dunn, the then chairman, to investigate directors who were suspected of having unauthorised conversations with members of the media. A board cannot operate effectively without…