PJT Partners (NYSE: PJT) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
PJT Partners is a global advisory-focused investment bank specializing in mergers and acquisitions and financial restructuring.

PJT Partners
PJT Partners is a global investment bank offering strategic advisory, restructuring, special situations, capital markets, and fund advisory services to corporations, financial sponsors, institutional investors, and governments worldwide. Headquartered in New York City, the firm operates across major financial hubs in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The company delivers independent counsel on mergers and acquisitions, capital structure optimization, liability management, and private fund placement through its specialized divisions. PJT Partners combines sector expertise with financial advisory capabilities to assist clients in executing complex domestic and cross-border transactions, managing corporate balance sheet reorganizations, and raising alternative investment capital.
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Operations
Products and/or services of PJT Partners
- Strategic Advisory: Providing client advisory services for domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, joint ventures, divestitures, corporate defense, and capital structure advisory to multinational corporations, institutional investors, and private equity sponsors globally.
- Restructuring and Special Situations: Delivering financial advisory services for distressed companies, creditors, equity holders, and government entities facing complex financial reorganizations, out-of-court restructurings, Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, liability management transactions, and corporate recapitalizations.
- Fund Advisory: Offering primary capital placement, secondary market advisory, and strategic capital solutions for alternative asset managers across private equity, real estate, private credit, hedge funds, and infrastructure assets via specialized global placement teams.
- Capital Markets Advisory: Assisting corporate and financial sponsor clients with capital raising strategies, initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, private capital placements, debt refinancings, and structured finance execution across major global capital markets.
- Shareholder Advisory: Advising public corporate boards of directors and executive leadership teams on activist investor defense, corporate governance best practices, strategic shareholder engagement, unsolicited takeover defense, and proxy contest preparedness.
- Direct Capital Solutions: Facilitating tailored capital raising and co-investment syndication for growth-stage companies, middle-market enterprises, and private sponsors seeking private equity, venture, structured equity, or private credit financing across diverse industry sectors.
PJT Partners executive team
- Mr. Paul Jeffrey Taubman B.S., M.B.A.Founder, Chairman & CEO
- Ms. Ji-Yeun LeeManaging Partner
- Ms. Helen Therese MeatesChief Financial Officer
- Mr. David Adam TravinGeneral Counsel
- Ms. Paige CostiganChief Operating Officer
- Ms. Sharon PearsonMD & Head of Investor & External Relations
- Mr. Steven MurrayPartner & Chief Human Resources Officer
- Mr. Tom CampbellPartner & Head of the EMEA Restructuring and Special Situations Group
- Mr. Nick TansleyMD of Strategic Advisory Group & Head of European Industrials
- Mr. Karl KnappPartner & Head of Global Industrials in the Strategic Advisory Group