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Financial report summary
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Citigroup • Morgan Stanley • Credit Suisse • Credit Suisse • Greenhill & Co • Lazard • Lazard • Moelis & Co - Ordinary Shares • PJT Partners Inc - Ordinary SharesRisks
- Changing market conditions can adversely affect our business in many ways, including by reducing the volume and value of the transactions involving our business, which could materially reduce our revenue.
- We may be unable to execute on our growth initiatives, business strategies or operating plans.
- Our future growth will depend on, among other things, our ability to successfully identify, recruit, develop and retain talent and will require us to commit additional resources.
- Our revenue in any given period is dependent on the number of fee-paying clients in such period, and a significant reduction in the number of fee-paying clients in any given period could reduce our revenue and adversely affect our operating results in such period.
- We have recorded operating losses in the past and may experience operating losses in the future.
- Substantially all of our revenue is derived from advisory fees, including fees that are largely contingent upon the completion of events which may be out of our control, such as the completion of a transaction and, as a result, our revenue and profits are highly volatile on a quarterly basis.
- If the number of debt defaults, bankruptcies or other factors affecting demand for our recapitalization and restructuring advisory services declines, our business related to such services could suffer.
- Our failure to deal appropriately with actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest could damage our reputation and materially adversely affect our business.
- Employee misconduct, which is difficult to detect and deter, and other labor-related issues could harm us by impairing our ability to attract and retain clients and talent and by subjecting us to legal liability and reputational harm.
- We may face damage to our professional reputation if our services are not regarded as satisfactory or for other reasons.
- We face strong competition from other financial advisory firms, many of which have the ability to offer clients a wider range of products and services than those we can offer, which could cause us to lose engagements to competitors, fail to win advisory mandates and subject us to pricing pressures that could materially adversely affect our revenue and profitability.
- As a member of the financial services industry, we face substantial litigation risks.
- Our business is subject to various cybersecurity and other operational risks.
- Our international operations are subject to certain risks, which may affect our revenue.
- We may enter into new lines of business which may result in additional risks and uncertainties in our business.
- Fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates could adversely affect our results.
- Restrictions in the Credit Agreement (as defined below) governing our Revolving Credit Facility (as defined below) may impair our ability to finance our future operations or capital needs or engage in other business activities that may be in our interests.
- We may not be able to generate sufficient cash to service any indebtedness.
- A change in relevant income tax laws, regulations, or treaties, or an adverse interpretation of these items by tax authorities, could result in an audit adjustment or revaluation of our deferred tax assets that may cause our effective tax rate and tax liability to be higher than what is currently presented on the Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition.
- The historical consolidated financial information for periods prior to the Business Combination on June 24, 2021 in our filings is not representative of the results we would have achieved as a stand-alone public company and may not be an appropriate basis for evaluating our potential future results.
- Extensive and evolving regulation of our business and the business of our clients exposes us to the potential for significant penalties and fines due to compliance failures, increases our costs and may result in limitations on the manner in which our business is conducted.
- The cost of compliance with international broker dealer, employment, labor, benefits and tax regulations may adversely affect our business and hamper our ability to expand internationally.
- Our only material assets are our partnership interests in PWP OpCo and our equity interest in the general partner of PWP OpCo, PWP GP, and we are accordingly dependent upon distributions from PWP OpCo to pay dividends, taxes, make payments under the TRA (as defined below) and pay other expenses.
- We are required to pay our ILPs (as defined below) and/or Limited Partners (as defined below) for certain tax benefits we may claim as a result of the tax basis step-up we received in connection with the Business Combination and related transactions and that we may receive in connection with subsequent exchanges of PWP OpCo Class A partnership units for cash or our Class A common stock. In certain circumstances, payments under the TRA (as defined herein) may be accelerated and/or significantly exceed the actual tax benefits we realize.
- PWP OpCo may make distributions of cash to us substantially in excess of the amounts we use to make distributions to our shareholders and to pay our expenses (including our taxes and payments under the TRA). To the extent we do not distribute such excess cash as dividends on our Class A common stock, the holders of PWP OpCo Class A partnership units would benefit from any value attributable to such cash as a result of their ownership of our Class A common stock upon a redemption or exchange of their PWP OpCo Class A partnership units.
- PWP OpCo and PWP Capital have entered into various arrangements, including a master separation agreement, which contain cross-indemnification obligations of us and PWP Capital.
- Our Restated Certificate of Incorporation could prevent us from benefiting from corporate opportunities that might have otherwise been available to us.
- If PWP OpCo were to become a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, we and PWP OpCo could be subject to potentially significant tax inefficiencies, and we would not be able to recover payments previously made by us under the TRA even if the corresponding tax benefits were subsequently determined to have been unavailable due to such status.
- The use of certain of our licensed trademarks by PWP Capital and its subsidiaries may expose us to reputational harm that could adversely affect our business should they take actions that damage the brand name.
- Our voting control is concentrated among the holders of our Class B-1 common stock. As a result, the market price of our securities may be materially adversely affected by such disparate voting rights.
- VoteCo Professionals’ control over us may give rise to actual or perceived conflicts of interest with the Limited Partners who manage VoteCo Professionals.
- If our performance does not meet market expectations, the price of our securities may decline.
- Our stockholders may be diluted by the future issuance of common stock, preferred stock or securities convertible or exchangeable into common or preferred stock, in connection with our incentive plans, acquisitions, capital raises or otherwise.
- Future sales of our Class A common stock may reduce the market price of our Class A common stock.
- As an “emerging growth company,” we cannot be certain if the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to “emerging growth companies” will make our common stock less attractive to investors.
- Our management is required to evaluate the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as required by Section 404(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. If we are unable to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, this could have a material adverse effect on our business.
- Pursuant to the JOBS Act, our independent registered public accounting firm will not be required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for so long as we are an “emerging growth company.”
- We are a “controlled company” within the meaning of the rules of Nasdaq and, as a result, qualify for, and rely on, exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements. You will not have the same protections afforded to stockholders of companies that are subject to such requirements.
- The classification of our board of directors may have anti-takeover effects, including discouraging, delaying or preventing our change of control.
- Anti-takeover provisions in our charter documents and Delaware law, as well as the rules of FINRA, the FCA, the Alberta Commission, CIRO, ACPR and other U.S. or foreign governmental regulatory authorities or self-regulatory organizations, could delay or prevent a change in control, limit the price investors may be willing to pay in the future for our Class A common stock and could entrench management.
- Our Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware will be the sole and exclusive forum for certain stockholder limitation matters, subject to limited exceptions, which could discourage stockholder lawsuits or limit our stockholders' ability to bring a claim in any judicial forum that they find favorable for disputes against our directors, officers, other employees or stockholders.
Management Discussion
- Revenues were $102.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 as compared with $131.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023, representing a decrease of 22%. The decrease in revenues was driven by a reduction in the number of clients and a moderately lower average fee per client. Revenues attributed to financing and capital solutions activity were relatively flat year-over-year, while mergers and acquisition revenues were down, primarily due to elongated transaction closing timelines in the current year period.
- For the three months ended March 31, 2024, total compensation and benefits expenses were $115.4 million, a decrease of 2% compared with $117.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. The slight decrease in total compensation and benefits expenses was the result of a lower bonus accrual in the current year period, partially offset by a year-over-year increase in equity-based compensation amortization. Furthermore, headcount reductions associated with the Business Realignment, which began during the second quarter of 2023 and was completed as of March 31, 2024, resulted in $3.2 million of costs, including separation and transition benefits and the acceleration of equity-based compensation amortization (net of forfeitures) for separated employees.
- For the three months ended March 31, 2024, total non-compensation expenses were $40.3 million, an increase of 10% compared with $36.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. The increase in non-compensation expenses was primarily the result of increased legal spend as well as higher depreciation expense due to new assets being placed in service subsequent to the first quarter of 2023 related to the renovation of the New York office space. These increases were partially offset by lower rent costs and reduced D&O insurance costs.