PJT Partners Inc. (PJT) is an independent advisory-focused investment bank that offers strategic advisory, restructuring, special situations advisory, and private fund advisory services. The company was launched in 2015 as part of a spin-off from the leading global financial services firm, The Blackstone Group. It got its name from the initials of its founder Paul J. Taubman, who also serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the company.
PJT Partners is headquartered in New York City, and prides itself on being a global service provider with additional offices in Boston, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Frankfurt among others. The firm provides services across a wide range of sectors including telecommunications, media, healthcare, real estate, financial institutions, energy, chemicals, consumer products, and technology.
PJT strategic advisory division assists companies, institutional investors, and governments in addressing their most strategic and complex financial matters. This involves mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, minority investments, asset swaps, divestitures, takeover defenses, corporate finance advisory, private placements, and cross-border transactions.
The restructuring division of PJT steps in when companies are facing financial and operational challenges. The team works together with clients in defining and executing strategies to restructure and/or recapitalize their businesses to improve their operational and financial stability.
PJT's special situations group is a leader in advising and arranging financing for complex, under-followed, misunderstood or off-the-run investments. This group partners with institutional investor clients seeking higher yields through investments in complex capital structures and special situations from distressed assets to non-core asset dispositions.
The private fund advisory group raises capital for a variety of investment strategies, including private equity, real estate, and hedge funds across a broad range of geographies and products.
Characterized by a robust level of expertise, PJT Partners Inc. is dedicated to creating long-term value for its clients by providing innovative and highly professional solutions to a diverse client base. The company, traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker PJT, has established a high standard of excellence and trust in its brief history.