Perella Weinberg Partners, which provides advisory and asset management services to clients globally, has elected four individuals in New York to join the firm’s partnership as of January 1, 2014.

Perella Weinberg Partners, which provides advisory and asset management services to clients globally, has elected four individuals in New York to join the firm’s partnership as of January 1, 2014.

Michael Grace and Kevin Stahl will serve in an advisory capacity, while Frances Ni and Vladimir Shendelman focus on asset management and firm administration respectively.

Prior to joining Perella Weinberg Partners in 2006, Grace was with Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney and its predecessor firms. Grace has specialized in mergers and acquisitions across a number of industry sectors, including financial technology, media and telecommunications, and consumer products.

Ni is chief accounting officer of Perella Weinberg Partners and co-head of operations for its asset management business. Prior to joining the firm in 2006, Ni was chief financial officer at ReachCapital and the accounting manager at FrontPoint Partners, an alternative asset management firm. Earlier still, Ni was a portfolio analyst at SAC Capital, having previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Shendelman is deputy general counsel of Perella Weinberg Partners, providing legal counsel to the advisory and asset management businesses. Prior to joining the firm, he was an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell within its mergers and acquisitions group.

Lastly, prior to joining Perella Weinberg Partners in January 2012, Stahl was a managing director and co-head of US real estate investment banking at RBC Capital Markets. Before that, he was with GE Real Estate, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley.