May Nasrallah

May Nasrallah is the Executive Chairwoman of PJT deNovo and Partner at PJT Partners. Prior to fully integrating deNovo Partners into PJT Partners on October 1st 2024, Ms Nasrallah was the Founder and Executive Chairwoman of deNovo Partners, a financial advisory firm she established in 2010, with offices in Dubai and Riyadh. Under her leadership, deNovo Partners became a premier boutique advisory firm in the Middle East, serving a broad range of clients including SWFs, GREs, PEs, multinationals, corporates and family groups, advising on over 100 transactions, including the region’s two largest private sector M&A transactions in 2024.

Before founding deNovo, Ms. Nasrallah spent over 15 years at Morgan Stanley in New York, Hong Kong, London and finally Dubai, where she set-up and led the firm’s investment banking efforts in the MENA region. Ms Nasrallah previously served as Non-Executive Chairman to BlackRock in the Middle East from 2020 to 2022. Ms. Nasrallah also serves as Independent Board Member of The Dubai International Chamber, DMCC, YBA Kanoo Holding and other non-profit organizations such as ABANA, LIFE and MEI.

Ms. Nasrallah is a recipient of numerous awards and recognitions including being ranked one of the Middle East’s 100 Most Powerful Businesswomen in 2023 and 2024 by Forbes Magazine.

Ms. Nasrallah holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned her Masters in Finance from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.