Partner
May Nasrallah is a Partner in the Strategic Advisory Group at PJT Partners, based in Dubai.
Prior to fully integrating deNovo Partners into PJT Partners, May Nasrallah was the Founder and Executive Chairwoman of deNovo Partners, a financial advisory firm she established in 2010, with offices in Dubai and Riyadh. Under her leadership, deNovo Partners became a premier boutique advisory firm in the Middle East, advising on over 100 transactions, including the region’s two largest private sector M&A transactions in 2024.
Before founding deNovo, Ms. Nasrallah spent over 15 years at Morgan Stanley in New York, Hong Kong, London and finally Dubai, where she set-up and led the firm’s investment banking efforts in the MENA region. May previously served as Non-Executive Chairman to BlackRock in the Middle East from 2020 to 2022. Ms. Nasrallah also serves as Independent Board Member of The Dubai International Chamber, YBA Kanoo Holding and other non-profit organizations such as ABANA and LIFE.
Ms. Nasrallah is a recipient of numerous awards and recognitions including ranked one of the Middle East’s 100 Most Powerful Businesswomen in 2023 and 2024 by Forbes Magazine.
Ms. Nasrallah holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned her Master’s in Finance from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.