Peter J. Solomon Company
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| Private Company | |
| Industry | Investment Banking |
| Founded | 1989 |
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1345 Avenue of the Americas New York City, United States |
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Number of employees
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75 |
| Website | www |
Peter J. Solomon Company (PJSC) is an investment banking advisory firm. PJSC advises clients on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, recapitalizations, private placements, and corporate strategy. The firm also provides counsel to corporate boards, renders fairness opinions and has built a successful practice defending companies in proxy and take-over contests.
The firm’s practices cover a broad range of industry verticals including retail, e-commerce and distribution; food retail and restaurants; energy; technology, media and telecommunications; healthcare and real estate. Landmark transactions have included advising Harrah's in its $28.7 billion sale to Apollo Global Management and Texas Pacific Group, advising May Stores in its $17.4 billion sale to Federated Department Stores, advising Phillips-Van Heusen in its $3.1 billion acquisition of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation and advising the Board of Directors of apparel and footwear conglomerate Jones Group, Inc. on its sale to private equity firm Sycamore Partners.
Among its current advisory assignments, PJSC is representing CBS Outdoor, American Apparel, Overseas Shipholding Group, RadioShack and Energy Future Holdings/TXU.
Recent cross-border advisory work includes representation of the (LSEG) on its pending $2.7 billion acquisition of Frank Russell Company. This acquisition marks the second of two transactions that PJSC has executed for LSEG; in 2013, PJSC represented LSEG (specifically, its subsidiary FTSE Group) on the formation of a joint venture with TMX Datalinx, creating the third largest fixed income ETF index provider in the world.
PJSC’s advisory assignments in 2013 included Office Depot's $1.1 billion merger with OfficeMax and Under Armour's $150 million acquisition of digital fitness technology company MapMyFitness. Noteworthy 2011 and 2012 assignments included: eBay in its acquisition of GSI Commerce,Sony in its acquisition of EMI Music Publishing,Zagat Survey in its sale to Google,Walgreen Company in its acquisition of certain assets from BioScrip Inc.,Cost Plus, Inc. in its sale to Bed, Bath & Beyond, Chico’s in its acquisition of Boston Proper,J.C. Penney in its investment in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia,Media General in the sale of most of its newspapers to Berkshire Hathaway., Phillips-Van Heusen Corp.'s $2.9 billion acquisition of Warnaco Group, PPR in its $525 million sale of OneStopPlus Group and McKesson Corporation's $2.1 billion acquisition of PSS World Medical, Inc.
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