Perella Weinberg Companions has agreed to amass Gleacher Shacklock, a UK-based boutique advisory agency.
Monetary phrases weren’t disclosed.
The transaction is predicted to shut within the second half of 2026, topic to regulatory approval and customary closing circumstances.
Based in 2003, Gleacher Shacklock gives strategic and monetary recommendation, together with M&A and strategic monetary advisory, defence advisory and capital markets advisory.
The agency serves corporates, monetary sponsors, sovereign wealth funds and establishments throughout a number of sectors.
It has about 30 advisory professionals and primarily covers shoppers within the UK and Europe.
Andrew Bednar, CEO of Perella Weinberg, mentioned: “What units Gleacher Shacklock aside just isn’t merely the standard of their recommendation – it’s the belief they’ve earned with shoppers over greater than twenty years, offering extremely tailor-made, impartial recommendation to corporates by means of all market environments.
“They’ve the experience, relationships, and judgment that essentially the most refined shoppers search when the stakes are highest. Combining Gleacher Shacklock’s UK and European franchise with Perella Weinberg’s world trade platform creates one thing particular: deep trade, product, and regional experience, seamlessly delivered every time and wherever our shoppers want us most.”
Tim Shacklock, chairman of Gleacher Shacklock, mentioned: “For over twenty years, we have now constructed Gleacher Shacklock with a single conviction – that shoppers are greatest served by advisors who’re wholly impartial, deeply skilled, and personally invested of their outcomes. Perella Weinberg shares that conviction.”
Gleacher Shacklock CEO Dominic Lee added: “Perella Weinberg’s world attain and trade experience will enable us to deliver meaningfully extra to our shoppers collectively, significantly as cross-border exercise continues to speed up. The flexibility to supply genuinely built-in, senior-led recommendation on either side of the Atlantic – throughout M&A, capital markets, and restructuring – is one thing our shoppers have lengthy requested for, and one thing we will now ship.”
Perella Weinberg is a US-based impartial advisory agency offering strategic and monetary recommendation to companies, monetary sponsors, governments and sovereign wealth funds. It has about 700 staff and workplaces together with New York, London, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, Chicago, Munich, Palm Seaside, Denver, Calgary and Greenwich.
The agency has accomplished different acquisitions lately, together with funds advisory group Devon Park final 12 months and vitality advisory Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co in 2016.