Perella Weinberg Partners elected Cem Koray to join the firm’s partnership, effective January 1, 2017.

Koray joined Perella Weinberg in 2013 as a managing director. He provides strategic and financial advice to clients in the consumer products and retail sectors. Koray has worked on several notable transactions during his career, including Henkel’s $3.6 billion acquisition of Sun Products; the sale of Altria’s $26 billion SABMiller stake to AB InBev; Mondelez International on the formation of the JDE Coffee joint venture with JAB Holdings and InBev’s $52 billion acquisition of Anheuser Busch.

Robert K. Steel, CEO of Perella Weinberg, said, “We congratulate Cem on his election to the firm’s partnership. His promotion reflects the significant contributions he has made to enhance the firm’s consumer products and retail industry coverage while providing clients with differentiated, trusted advice – a hallmark of our firm.”

Prior to joining Perella Weinberg, Koray was an executive director at J.P. Morgan, where he advised a broad range of clients in the consumer products and retail industries on M&A and capital raising transactions. Prior to attending business school, Koray worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co in Istanbul, London and Sydney.