As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2026
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Perella Weinberg Partners
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 84-1770732 | ||||
( State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | ||||
767 Fifth Avenue New York, NY | 10153 | ||||
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) | ||||
Perella Weinberg Partners 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)
Alexandra Gottschalk
Chief Financial Officer
Perella Weinberg Partners
767 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10153
(Name and address of agent for service)
(212) 287-3200
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Michael J. Schwartz, Esq.
Blair T. Thetford, Esq.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
One Manhattan West
New York, New York 10001
(212) 735-3000
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
| Large accelerated filer | ☒ | Accelerated filer | ☐ | |||||||||||
| Non-accelerated filer | ☐ | Smaller reporting company | ☐ | |||||||||||
| Emerging growth company | ☐ | |||||||||||||
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This registration statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) is being filed for the purpose of registering 2,674,143 shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of Perella Weinberg Partners (the “Company”) that may be issued and sold pursuant to the Perella Weinberg Partners 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “Incentive Plan”).
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The documents containing the information specified in Part I of the instructions to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 will be sent or given to participants in the Incentive Plan as required by Rule 428(b)(1) of the rules promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). These documents are not being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) as a part of this registration statement in accordance with Rule 428(b) and the Note to Part I of Form S-8.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The following documents filed with the SEC pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and shall be deemed to be a part hereof (except for any portions of Current Reports on Form 8-K furnished pursuant to Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 thereof and any corresponding exhibits thereto not filed with the SEC):
(a) The Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC on February 27, 2025;
(b) The Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended March 31, 2025, June 30, 2025 and September 30, 2025, filed with the SEC on May 2, 2025, August 1, 2025 and November 7, 2025, respectively;
(c) The Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on May 19, 2025, May 30, 2025 (as amended by Form 8-K/A filed with the SEC on August 1, 2025), August 1, 2025, September 4, 2025, November 18, 2025, and January 13, 2026; and
(d) The description of the Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, included in Exhibit 4.2 of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC on February 27, 2025, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.
All reports and definitive proxy or information statements filed pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Unless expressly incorporated into this Registration Statement, a report furnished but not filed on Form 8-K under the Exchange Act shall not be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in any subsequently filed document which also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
Not applicable.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended, authorizes us to indemnify any director or officer under certain prescribed circumstances and subject to certain limitations against certain costs and expenses, including attorney’s fees actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, to which a person is a party by reason of being one of our directors or officers if it is determined that such person acted in accordance with the applicable standard of conduct set forth in such statutory provisions.
Our Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws provide that our officers and directors are indemnified by us to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by applicable law, as it now exists or may in the future be amended. In addition, we have entered into indemnification agreements with each of our directors and executive officers. These agreements require us, among other things, to indemnify these individuals to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law against expenses and liabilities that may arise by reason of their status as directors and executive officers, subject to certain exceptions, and to advance expenses incurred as a result of any proceeding against them as to which they could be indemnified. We have also purchased a policy of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance that insures our directors and executive officers against loss arising from claims made by reason of breach of duty or other wrongful act and insures us against our obligations to indemnify our directors and executive officers.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, we have been advised that in the opinion of the SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
The following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated herein by reference.
EXHIBIT INDEX
| Exhibit Number | Description | |||||||
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| 3.2 | ||||||||
| 3.3 | ||||||||
| 5.1* | ||||||||
| 23.1* | ||||||||
| 23.2* | Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 hereto). | |||||||
| 24.1* | Powers of Attorney (included as part of the signature page hereto). | |||||||
| 99.1 | ||||||||
| 99.2 | ||||||||
| 107* | ||||||||
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* Filed herewith
Item 9. Undertakings.
(a) The Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement;
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;
Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-8, and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the Registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
(b) The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in New York, New York, on February 6, 2026.
| PERELLA WEINBERG PARTNERS | |||||||||||
| By: | /s/ ANDREW BEDNAR | ||||||||||
| Andrew Bednar | |||||||||||
| Chief Executive Officer | |||||||||||
| (Principal Executive Officer) | |||||||||||
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW BY ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Andrew Bednar and Alexandra Gottschalk, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agents with full and several power of substitution, for him or her and his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the date indicated.
| Signature | Title | Date | ||||||||||||
| /s/ ANDREW BEDNAR | Chief Executive Officer | February 6, 2026 | ||||||||||||
Andrew Bednar | (Principal Executive Officer) | |||||||||||||
| /s/ ALEXANDRA GOTTSCHALK | Chief Financial Officer | February 6, 2026 | ||||||||||||
Alexandra Gottschalk | (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) | |||||||||||||
| /s/ PETER A. WEINBERG | Chairman | February 6, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Peter A. Weinberg | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ JOSEPH R. PERELLA | Chairman Emeritus | February 6, 2026 | ||||||||||||
Joseph R. Perella | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ ROBERT K. STEEL | Vice Chairman | February 6, 2026 | ||||||||||||
Robert K. Steel | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ DIETRICH BECKER | Director | February 6, 2026 | ||||||||||||
Dietrich Becker | ||||||||||||||
/s/EDWIN BENNETT | Director | February 6, 2026 | ||||||||||||
Edwin Bennett | ||||||||||||||
/s/ HOUDA DABBOUSSI | Director | February 6, 2026 | ||||||||||||
Houda Dabboussi | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ ELIZABETH COGAN FASCITELLI | Director | February 6, 2026 | ||||||||||||
Elizabeth Cogan Fascitelli | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ KRISTIN W. MUGFORD | Director | February 6, 2026 | ||||||||||||
Kristin W. Mugford | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ JORMA OLLILA | Director | February 6, 2026 | ||||||||||||
Jorma Ollila | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ JANE C. SHERBURNE | Director | February 6, 2026 | ||||||||||||
Jane C. Sherburne | ||||||||||||||