Raj Dayalan is a Partner in Perella Weinberg Partners’ Advisory business. Based in Los Angeles, he is part of the Firm’s Global Technology team and focuses on providing strategic and financial advice to clients in the software and Internet sectors.

Mr. Dayalan has nearly two decades of experience advising clients on a wide range of strategic matters including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, leveraged buyouts and both private and public debt and equity financings.  Over his career, Mr. Dayalan has been involved in transactions representing over $100B in aggregate consideration.

Prior to joining Perella Weinberg Partners, Mr. Dayalan served as Managing Director and Co-Head of Internet & Related Software at JMP Securities.  Previously, he was a Managing Director with Rothschild’s Technology Group and Co-Head of Internet investment banking at Houlihan Lokey.  Raj also spent nearly a decade at UBS Investment Bank and served as Executive Director in the firm’s Global Technology Group.  Earlier in his career, Raj held senior business development roles in the application software industry, after working as an investment banking analyst at both Deutsche Bank Securities and Salomon Brothers.

Mr. Dayalan earned an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Irvine.

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