It may be Joseph Perella’s and Peter Weinberg’s names above the door of the firm’s offices on Fifth Avenue, but Perella Weinberg Partners was established in June 2006 as a transatlantic operation, with equal capabilities in the US and Europe.

Earlier that year, Weinberg wrote an article praising London as a global financial centre and suggesting the gap between Wall Street and the City of London was closing. That view was reflected by the equal split in partners between London and New York. At the start there were four partners in the advisory business on Fifth Avenue and four in Grafton Street, London. Today there are seven in New York and six in London, with around 30 additional professionals in each location.