Privacy Notice
This external global privacy notice (“Privacy Notice”) sets out how PJT Partners Inc., PJT Partners Holdings LP and its affiliates (together, “we”, “our” or “us”) process your personal data. Your “personal data” means any information that can identify you. This Privacy Notice is designed to inform you about how we collect, use, share, and otherwise process your personal data, and the choices you can make about collection, use, and sharing of your personal data.
If you have engaged with us to provide services to you (as described in the 'How your personal data is collected' section below), or you are communicating with us, the entity controlling your personal data is the PJT Partners entity with whom you have an engagement letter or with whom you are communicating. Otherwise, the entity that will control your personal data is PJT Partners Inc.
If you have a question related to anything set out in this Privacy Notice, please contact us by emailing us at dataprivacy@pjtpartners.com (see the 'How to contact us' section below for further details).
To access this privacy notice in other languages, please contact us using the contact details below.
Related Notices
If you are applying for a role with us, please refer to our Applicant Privacy Notice found here.
California residents, please refer to our California Privacy Notice, which supplements this Privacy Notice found here.
Personal data we collect about you
General personal data
The personal data we collect about you depends on your relationship with us and is collected in a variety of ways.
We collect your personal data directly when you engage with us, including (without limitation) when you visit our website, when you communicate with us (e.g. via email or telephone including via the email address on our website), when we are acting on behalf of a corporate client or investor, and when we provide services to you.
Where we provide services to you, these may include:
financial advisory services, advice on corporate governance and shareholder engagement and fund placement services;
the websites and mobile applications owned and controlled by us that link to this privacy notice; and
our marketing and business development activities, including events we host, meetings you may attend, social media we create and emails that we send.
We also collect certain data through tracking technologies we use when you visit our website and (see our separate 'Cookies Policy' here).
We may also receive your personal data indirectly, for example through publicly available data, including, publicly available social media sites (such as LinkedIn, Meta, Instagram and X).
The personal data we process will depend on the information sent to us and the type of services we are engaged to provide. Generally, the following are examples of the types of personal data that may be collected:
General Personal Information: The general personal data we process includes, but is not limited to: your name and contact details (such as email and phone numbers); financial information; information to verify identity, such as date of birth, passport or driving license; any other personal data relevant to, or necessary for us to perform, proper due diligence, such as required “anti-money laundering” (AML) or “know your customer” (KYC) reviews to conduct investigations and to perform conflict checks to deliver many of our services; your job title; work history; gender; your IP address and other unique identifiers.
Service Information: We may collect personal data during the provision of services to our clients and prospective clients and the personal data we process will depend on the information sent to us and the type of matter for which our client has retained or is seeking to retain us for. For example, if we are engaged by a client to provide advisory services, we may receive personal data about the client and other relevant parties involved in our provision of services. Similarly, our vendors and business partners may also provide us with certain information about their staff and those connected with their organization, including their names and contact details.
Information to Respond to Your Requests: You may also give us your personal data to sign up for our newsletters and other communications. You can update your communication preferences e.g. by following instructions available on the website and/or by submitting unsubscribe instructions.
Technical Website Usage Information: When you visit the website, we collect usage data sent to us by your computer, mobile device, or other access device that tells us how you are using the website (“usage information”). During some of your visits to the website, we may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, time spent on certain pages, and page interaction information. For more information about the use of cookies and similar technologies, see our 'Cookies Policy'.
Special category or sensitive personal data
In certain circumstances, our employees provide us with the personal data of their relatives or associated persons. We collect and use this information in connection with securities accounts owned by those individuals and the trades executed by them. Therefore, in addition to the general personal data mentioned above, we may also collect special category or sensitive personal data to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, such as:
the political contributions for candidates for U.S. federal office who do not hold a state or local office, made, solicited or coordinated by such relatives or associated persons; and
the positions, such as directorships or executive offices, held in a public company by an employee’s relatives or associated persons.
If you attend one of our events or visit our offices, we may also collect special category or sensitive personal data, such as information about your dietary requirements or allergies (to assist when we serve food) or other information to assist with requests you may make, for example in relation to any disability you may have.
We do so to comply with our legal obligations and / or to fulfil our obligations or where you have provided your consent.
If you are applying for a role with us, including certain temporary or consulting roles, we may also collect personal data about you from other sources such as your current employer, employees and colleagues or through publicly available internet searches. For more information, please refer to our Applicant Privacy Notice found here.
Lawful basis and purpose for processing your personal data
General personal data
We use the personal data that we collect for various purposes.
We will only use your personal data if we have a lawful basis, for example where the processing is necessary: to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into such contract; or for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, as highlighted above. A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your personal data, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests (e.g., to review and respond to any correspondence or queries you send, to ensure security, to improve service and product development, to maintain our website, and to protect and grow our business).
We may use your personal data for the following reasons:
Provide products and services: to operate our business, administer services, process and complete your transactions and delivering products or services. This is necessary for our legitimate interests (for running and managing our business) and in performance of our contract with you;
Manage our relationships with you: to contact you to respond to your requests or inquiries, to comply with your stated communication preferences; to provide you with other requested services (as described at the time when we collect the data from you); and to send you marketing and other communications that you have requested, or contact you for other purposes authorised by law. This is necessary for our legitimate interests (for running and managing our business) in performance of our contract with you and in compliance with our legal or regulatory obligations;
Provide personalised content: to provide you with newsletters, articles, alerts and announcements, event invitations, marketing information and other information that we believe may be of interest to you. This is necessary for our legitimate interest (to promote and grow our business) and, in some cases, will be carried out with your consent;
Operate the website: to analyze your interactions with us, and improve our products, services, programs, and other offerings. This is necessary for our legitimate interests (to maintain the relevance of our brand, products and reputation and to run our business, operate administration and IT services and protect network security) and to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations;
To enable or facilitate corporate transactions: to enable or facilitate corporate transactions, including in connection with any merger, sale, integration, transfer of our assets, investment, capital raise, acquisition, bankruptcy, or similar event or corporate transaction, or to explore a corporate restructuring with professional advisors. This is necessary for our legitimate interest (for running and managing our business) and to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations;
Prevent fraud: to prevent, investigate, or provide notice of fraud, unlawful or criminal activity, perform due diligence such as AML and KYC checks, or unauthorized access to or use of your personal data, our networks, systems or applications. This is necessary for our legitimate interest (to prevent fraud) and, to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations; or
Comply with other relevant legal or regulatory obligations: to comply with other relevant legal or regulatory obligations, such as identity and contact information to enforce our Terms of Use found here and any other agreements we have with you. This is necessary in performance of a contract with you, for our legitimate interests (for running and managing our business) and to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations.
Special category personal data
In the specific circumstances we process special categories of personal data, in addition to the lawful basis and purpose listed above, we will ensure:
you have given your explicit consent for us to do so. In particular, we collect special category data, such as information about your dietary requirements or allergies (to assist when we serve food) or to comply with accessibility requests you may make in relation to any disability you may have. We do so to comply with our legal obligations relating to equality, health and safety and, where necessary, with your consent;
the processing is necessary for carrying out our obligations and exercising our, or your, specific rights under applicable laws and / or regulations; or
the processing relates to personal data which you have manifestly made public and the processing is necessary for achieving purposes in the public interest.
Marketing
We may use your personal data to send you updates about our services. We have a legitimate interest to use your personal data for marketing purposes in order to manage our relationship with you and to grow and develop our business. This means we do not usually need your consent to send you marketing information. However, where consent is needed by data protection law, we will ask for this separately and clearly. If you do not wish to be contacted by us, you can follow the unsubscribe instructions that accompany any marketing e-mail or contact us using the details outlined in the 'How to make a complaint' section below. If you opt-out of such communication, we may still contact you about any problems or issues with your account, profile, or any services provided by us. We will always treat your personal data with respect and will never sell or share it with other organizations outside our group for marketing purposes.
Our website also collects certain information automatically and store it in log files by using cookies and other automated technologies. For more information, see the 'Cookies Policy' here.
How we share and disclose personal data
We may share your data:
internally (PJT Partners Inc., PJT Partners Holdings LP, our subsidiaries, and affiliates) and
externally, in order to facilitate the provision of our products, services, and communications with customers, vendors, clients, potential targets and / or business partners, our professional advisers, law enforcement, regulators, auditors, insurers and other government agencies and parties with whom we are involved.
International data transfers
Your personal data may be held at our offices and those of our affiliates, third-party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents as described above.
Where we, or third parties, process your personal data outside of the UK / EEA, we will ensure:
the UK government or the European Commission (as applicable) has decided the particular country or international organization ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data;
there are appropriate safeguards in place, such as the European Commission approved Standard Contractual Clauses and UK International Data Transfer Addendum (as applicable), together with enforceable rights and effective legal remedies for you (where you are in the EU or UK, you have the right to request a copy of the documented safeguards – which may be redacted for commercial sensitivities - by contacting us in accordance with the 'How to contact us' section below); or
a specific exception applies under data protection law.
Data security
We endeavor to maintain physical, technical and administrative measures designed to safeguard personal data. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be secure at all times. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the 'How to contact us' section below.
Children’s online privacy protection
Given the nature of our website, we do not knowingly collect personal data online from children under 13 years old, nor is our website intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13 years old. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal data from anyone under 13 years old, we will delete such data from our records. If you are aware that any personal data of anyone under 13 years old has been shared with us, please let us know by contacting us in accordance with the 'How to contact us' section below so that we can delete that data.
How long we process and retain your personal data
We will only process and store your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it (outlined above), including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal data, we consider the purpose for which we collected and are using it and any applicable laws or regulation which may prescribe a minimum period for which we must retain personal data. Please note that in certain circumstances, we may hold your personal data for a longer period, for example, if we are processing an ongoing claim or believe in good faith that law, regulation or a relevant regulator may reasonably in our view expect or require us to preserve your personal data.
In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such anonymized information without further notice to you.
Your rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights, which you can exercise by contacting us in accordance with the 'How to contact us' section below:
Object to use – the right to object at any time to your personal data being processed for direct marketing (including profiling), or in certain other situations, the right to object to our continued processing of your personal data, e.g. processing carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests.
Access a copy of your personal data – the right to be provided with a copy of the personal data that we process about you.
Correction (also known as rectification) – the right to request that we correct any errors, outdated information, or omissions in personal data that we process about you
A qualified right to erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten) – the right to require us to delete your personal data in certain situations.
A qualified right to restriction of processing – the right to require us to restrict processing of your personal data in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data.
Data portability – the right to receive the personal data we process about you, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party in certain situations.
Not to be subject to automated individual decision making – the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
Withdraw your consent – where you have given us your consent, the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us as described in the 'How to make a complaint' section below, or where applicable, by unsubscribing from any communications to which you have subscribed.
Complain – the right to bring complaints with any relevant data protection or privacy authority.
Please contact us if you have any query or concern about our use of your personal data. We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have. If not, you can contact a regulator, including:
If you are an Investor located in the U.S., you may also file an Investor Complaint Form with the Securities and Exchange Commission at https://www.sec.gov/oiea/Complaint.html. In addition, if you are a California resident, you may also contact the California Office of the Attorney General at https://oag.ca.gov/contact.
If you reside in the UK, this will be the Information Commissioner's Office, who can be contacted here: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Helpline number: 0303 123 1113 https://www.ico.org.uk
If you are located in Europe, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant Data Protection Authorities in the EU: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm.
If you are located in Hong Kong, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, who can be contacted here: Unit 1303, 13/F, Dah Sing Financial Centre, 248 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong.
https://www.pcpd.org.hk/english/complaints/how_complaint/complaint/complaint.htmlIf you are located in the Dubai International Financial Centre, you may file a complaint with the Commissioner of Data Protection, who can be contacted here: Dubai International Financial Centre Authority, Level 14, The Gate, P.O. Box 74777, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, or emailed at: commissioner@dp.difc.ae
If you are located in Japan, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Personal Information Protection Commission, who can be contacted here: 32nd Floor, 3-2-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-0013, Japan. ppc.go.jp
If you are located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, you can lodge a complaint with the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence, who can be contacted by telephone here: 8001221111 or by email here: Suggestions@sdaia.gov.sa
How to contact us
If you wish to contact us or make a request pursuant to this privacy notice, please email dataprivacy@pjtpartners.com. Please note the specific controller you wish to contact in the subject line of your email address.
Individuals in the USA
PJT Partners Inc.
Attn: Human Resources
280 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Individuals in the UK
PJT Partners (UK) Limited
One Curzon Street
London W1J 5HD, United Kingdom
Individuals in Spain
PJT Partners Park Hill (Spain) A.V., S.A.U.
Paseo de la Castellana 41
Madrid, 28046, Spain
Individuals in France
PJT Partners (France) SAS
134, Boulevard Haussmann, 1 Avenue de Messine,
75008, Paris, France
Individuals in Germany
PJT Partners (Germany) GmbH
OpernTurm, 16th Floor, Bockenheimer Landstr. 2-4, 60306
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Individuals in Hong Kong
PJT Partners (HK) Limited
Suite 3609-11, 36F
Two International Finance Centre
No. 8 Finance Street
Central, Hong Kong
Individuals in Japan
PJT Partners Japan K.K.
Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 16F, 6-10-1
Roppongi, Minato-ku
Tokyo 106-6116
Japan
Individuals in the UAE
PJT deNovo Partners Ltd
ICD Brookfield Place, Level 18
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Individuals in Saudi Arabia
deNovo Partners Finance
25th Floor
Kingdom Centre
Riyadh, Al-Olaya district
Saudi Arabia
Changes to this Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this privacy notice at any time which will be made available through our website. Please check this page regularly for the most up to date version of this notice.
This Privacy Notice was last updated as of September 2025.