Perella Weinberg Partners announced that Jillian Colbert Alsheimer has joined the Firm as a Partner in the Advisory Business. Based in New York, Ms. Alsheimer will help build the Firm?s shareholder activism, anti-raid, and corporate governance services across industries and regions. Ms. Alsheimer joins Perella Weinberg from Goldman Sachs where she was a Managing Director in Mergers and Acquisitions focused on shareholder activism and advisory, proxy fights, as well as anti-raid and takeover defense.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Ms. Alsheimer was a corporate lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she specialized in general mergers and acquisitions, securities law, shareholder activism, corporate governance, and takeover defense. Over the course of her career, Ms. Alsheimer has advised clients across industries on mergers and acquisitions, takeover defense, hostile transactions, proxy fights, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and cross-border transactions. Ms. Alsheimer earned a JD from Columbia University Law School and a BBA from the George Washington University.