Blackstone Advisory Partners in the financial advisory group of private equity firm, The Blackstone Group. Blackstone Advisory Partners assits clients with IPOs, financings, acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, minority investments, asset swaps, divestitures, takeover defenses and distressed sales. Sector expertise includes apparel/textiles, automotive, business, financial and healthcare services, chemicals, communications, consumer products/services, distribution, energy services and equipment, food, forest products, information technology, insurance, internet software and services, leisure, machinery, marine, marketing, media, packaging, real estate, retail, software, staffing, technology hardware, and utilities. Blackstone Advisory Partners is based in New York, New York. In 2015, Blackstone Advisory Partners combined with PJT Capital to form PJT Partners.