Getting the band back together

摘要

Thomas Petrie, Jon Hughes, and colleagues are back with a new boutique investment bank focused on mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. The Eagles said during their first reunion concert a few years ago, after being off the road for 20 some years, "We never broke up; we just took a vacation." Thomas A. Petrie and Jon C. Hughes might say the same. Partners in energy investment banking for 26 years, they and some colleagues have banded together in a new iteration as Petrie Partners LP in Denver. This follows their recent five-year stint at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where Petrie was vice chairman and Hughes was a managing director in the bank's energy group. In 2006, Hughes was the principal negotiator when Merrill Lynch acquired Petrie Parkman & Co., the boutique they had co-founded in 1989.