Goldman Sachs Adds PJT Park Hill Managing Director Darren Schluter to Secondaries Advisory Team

Goldman Sachs has added Darren Schluter, a New York-based managing director who was on gardening leave from PJT Park Hill at the time of the hire, to its secondaries advisory unit. The move was reported March 13, 2026.

Schluter joins a team that includes managing director Josef Menasche among its leadership. The Schluter hire is not Goldman's first recent move to build out the group: the bank had also brought on Rothschild's London-based head of GP Solutions late last year, though that individual has not been publicly named.

At PJT Park Hill, Schluter was part of a Secondary Advisory practice the firm has described as one of the more experienced investment banking teams in the industry, involved in large, complex transactions since its founding in 2008. He appeared as a panelist at a Fund Finance Association event alongside Goldman's own Todd Hooper, an executive director at the firm, where the panel addressed topics including ESG-linked subscription finance facilities and the LIBOR transition.

Schluter and PJT Park Hill partner David Perdue had previously offered their read on where the secondaries market was heading, noting in industry commentary that "the increased competition from both sides has made it even more crucial for secondaries professionals to expand their skillsets and geographic/strategic expertise, especially considering the spike in demand for secondaries specialists in marketing, sales, and business development is not likely to slow down anytime soon." That observation came during the first half of 2021, when Goldman Sachs, Rothschild, and Guggenheim Partners were among the sell-side names moving into secondaries while TPG, Manulife, Ares Management, Brookfield Asset Management, and Apollo Global Management pushed in from the buy side.

The talent market Schluter was describing five years ago has only intensified since. The 2021 wave included Apollo tapping Earl Hunt in April of that year to co-lead the newly launched Apollo Credit Secondaries, a platform with $1 billion in assets to deploy into private credit secondary transactions. Hunt had spent the prior six years at Goldman in its Relationship Management and Strategy team. Matthew Wesley moved from Guggenheim to Jefferies as co-head of secondaries, bringing Joseph Slevin, Richard Saltzman, and Benjamin Carper with him; Slevin and Carper began at Jefferies on June 1, 2021. Darren O'Brien joined Campbell Lutyens' secondary advisory team the same month.

No start date for Schluter at Goldman has been confirmed, and neither Goldman Sachs nor PJT Partners has issued a public statement on the move.