Partner
Jawad Qasim is a Partner in the Strategic Advisory Group at PJT Partners, based in Dubai and Riyadh.
Mr. Qasim has over two decades of investment banking and private equity experience. He joined PJT Partners from deNovo Partners, where he established the firm’s sovereign wealth funds and capital raising business, as well as its presence in Saudi Arabia. Prior to that, Mr. Qasim established and ran the investment banking business of Itaú Unibanco in the MENA region, overseeing M&A and corporate finance advisory, fixed income and equities sales, and financial institutions coverage. He played a key role in advising Brazilian and LatAm conglomerates on raising capital from Middle East SWFs. Before Itaú, Mr. Qasim was a private equity executive and a member of the founding team of Dubai International Capital, a subsidiary of Dubai Holding, where he built extensive buy side and investment management experience across European LBOs, country-specific funds, structured PIPE investments, as well as restructuring and turnaround situations.
Mr. Qasim received his Bachelor of Commerce in Finance from McGill University in Montreal and is a CFA charterholder.