Perella-Pereira axis

26 January 2006 By Hugo Dixon Follow @hugodixon

The recruitment of Paulo Pereira, one of Morgan Stanley s top European bankers, is the latest addition to a formidable lineup. Perella s timing looks good: exploiting client unease about whether they can fully trust bulge bracket firms and Morgan Stanley s turmoil.

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Paulo Pereira, head of European M&A at Morgan Stanley, has left the firm to join the new superboutique being set up by Joe Perella and Terry Meguid, his former colleagues at the investment bank. Morgan Stanley has appointed Gavin MacDonald, who has been with the firm for 23 years and is one of the founding members of its European M&A department, as Pereira's replacement.

Pereira is the first European to join Perella. The new group plans eventually to have a small number of partners, less than ten, in Europe.

Perella has recruited two other partners in the US so far this year: Peter Weinberg, former head of Goldman Sachs Europe who recently relocated to the US; and Jon Anda, former cohead of global capital markets at Morgan Stanley.

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