Perella Weinberg Partners LP entered into a definitive transaction agreement to acquire Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., LLC on November 14, 2016. The combined firm will be called Perella Weinberg Partners. Tudor, Pickering, Holt’s energy practice will continue to operate as Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. PWP’s founding investors will remain shareholders in the combined company, with some providing additional growth capital. Perella Weinberg’s outside investors, including an investment arm of Qatar, helped the transaction. Perella Weinberg Partners will be led by Chairman Joseph R. Perella, Chief Executive Officer Robert K. Steel, Head of Advisory Peter A. Weinberg, and Co-Head of Asset Management Tarek Abdel-Meguid. Aaron Hood, previously Chief Financial Officer for Perella Weinberg Partners, will join Tarek Abdel-Meguid as a Co-Head of Perella Weinberg Partners’ Asset Management business. Alexandra Pruner, previously Chief Financial Officer of Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., will assume the role of Chief Financial Officer of Perella Weinberg Partners. R. Maynard Holt will assume the role of Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Chief Executive Officer while Robert B. Tudor III, who has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will continue in his role as Chairman. As Chairman, Robert B. Tudor will join the Executive Committee at Perella Weinberg Partners and will spearhead the drive to capture opportunities created by the combination of the two firms. Dan Pickering will be President and Chief Investment Officer of the energy asset management business, and join the leadership of the combined Asset Management business. Subject to customary conditions, the transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2016. Harvey Eisenberg, Jonathon Soler, James Griffin, Christopher Machera, David Wohl, Stephanie Srulowitz, Sarah Borden, Jacquelyn Volpe, Vishal Phalgoo, Vladislava Rebeiz, Philip Wolf, Ryan Gorsche, Dilen Kumar, Timothy Burns, Andrew Colao, Todd Chandler, Anthony Mascarenhas, Brian Drozda, Michael Nissan, August Huelle, David Irvine, Martin Pollack, Stanley Ramsay, Mark Dundon, Stuart Pibworth, John Scribner and Jonathan Cheng of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Keith Fullenweider, Alan Beck, Adam Law, John Bell, John Lynch, Mark Proctor, Jessica Wood, Josh Teahen, Brian Moss, Guy Gribov, Caitlin Lawrence, Chris Popov, Charles Rosson, Sean Becker, Grace Ho, Casey Fisk, Dario Mendoza, Neil Imus, Ricardo Muniz-Almeyda, Peter Mims, Sean Hill, Scot Dixon, Mark Beeley and Alex Slade of Vinson & Elkins LLP acted as legal counsels to Perella Weinberg Partners and Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co, respectively. Denise DesChenes and Cassandra Bujarski of Sard Verbinnen & Co acted as public relation advisor for the transaction. Nick Sheumack of Berkshire Capital Securities LLC acted as financial advisor to Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., LLC