NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Peter J. Solomon Company (PJSC), a leading private investment banking firm, announced today that Managing Director Marc S. Cooper has been promoted to Vice Chairman. Managing Directors Cathy Leonhardt and David A. Shiffman will now lead PJSC’s Global Retail Practice.
Founding Chairman Peter J. Solomon and President Kenneth T. Berliner praised Mr. Cooper for his vigorous leadership of the retail practice and his all-around investment banking skills. “Marc’s knowledge is deep; his relationships are broad and strong and his contributions to PJSC’s growth are numerous. When you factor in all of our bankers and senior advisors who work in the retail, consumer and apparel sectors, PJSC fields one of Wall Street’s largest and most successful teams.”
In his new role, Mr. Cooper, who joined the firm in 1999, and served as head of its Global Retail Practice, will now assume the additional responsibility of sourcing and executing transactions across the firm’s various industry verticals and product offerings. In his distinguished career, Mr. Cooper has represented a long roster of high-profile retail and branded companies, completing strategic advisory assignments in mergers and acquisitions and across the capital markets spectrum.
Mr. Cooper stated, “Peter J. Solomon Company is a terrific firm with an entrepreneurial bent and an ethos where trust is the foundation of client relationships. With Cathy Leonhardt and David Shiffman leading our efforts in global retail, along with Jeff Hornstein, Jeff Derman, Brad Weinberg, and of course Peter and Ken, we have a formidable team and I am excited about our future.”
Cathy Leonhardt joined PJSC ten years ago from Morgan Stanley, where she was a Vice President in the Mergers and Acquisitions department. Known for her strategic advisory experience in the retail, apparel and e-commerce sectors, Ms. Leonhardt has advised some of PJSC’s most important clients on M&A transactions, financings and restructurings.
David A. Shiffman, a former head of retail investment banking at Goldman Sachs, joined PJSC as a Managing Director last year. In his twenty year career advising notable branded companies in the retail, consumer and business services spaces, Mr. Shiffman has gained a reputation, in addition to his mergers and acquisitions expertise, for his ability to assist clients in need of strategic positioning and capital markets solutions; these include buy and sell-side assignments, private financings and restructurings.
Further inquiries may be directed to Managing Director Diane M. Coffey at: 212-508-1605; dcoffey@pjsolomon.com. You are also welcome to visit PJSC’s website at www.pjsc.com.
About Peter J. Solomon Company
Peter J. Solomon Company (PJSC) is a leading independent investment banking firm headquartered in New York, City. Founded in 1989, the Firm provides owners, boards of directors, chief executives and senior management of public and private companies with strategic and financial advice.
PJSC has successfully completed more than 500 strategic and financial advisory assignments in the form of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, recapitalizations, refinancings and fairness opinions. PJSC has also built a successful practice defending companies in proxy and take-over contests. The Firm’s clients represent industry leaders in retail, apparel, wholesale and catalogue distribution; e-commerce; media, entertainment, communications and technology; health care, pharmaceuticals and life science; branded and unbranded consumer products and industrial products.
