PJT Partners' (PJT) CEO Paul Taubman on Q4 2019 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

PJT Partners Inc. (NYSE:PJT) Q4 2019 Earnings Conference Call February 6, 2020 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Sharon Pearson – Head-Investor Relations
Paul Taubman – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Helen Meates – Chief Financial Officer.

Conference Call Participants

Devin Ryan – JMP Securities
Richard Ramsden – Goldman Sachs
Jim Mitchell – Buckingham Research
Sumeet Mody – Piper Sandler

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to the PJT Partners Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2019 Earnings Call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today’s call is being recorded. And now I would like to hand the call over to your host, Sharon Pearson, Head of Investor Relations at PJT Partners. Please go ahead.

Sharon Pearson

Thanks very much, Jake, and good morning, and welcome to the PJT Partners Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. Joining me today is Paul Taubman, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; and Helen Meates, our Chief Financial Officer.

Before I turn the call over to Paul, I want to point out that during the course of this conference call, we may make a number of forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, and there are important factors that could cause actual outcomes to differ materially from those indicated in these statements. We believe that these factors are described in the Risk Factors section contained in PJT Partners 2018 Form 10-K, which is available on our website at pjtpartners.com.

I want to remind you that the company assumes no duty to update any forward-looking statements and that the presentation we make today contains non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe are meaningful in evaluating the company's performance. For detailed disclosures on these non-GAAP metrics and their GAAP reconciliations, you should refer to the financial