Company Profile
Peridot Asia Advisors, LLC is a business strategy consulting and financial advisory firm that assists clients dealing with China and other parts of Asia. Peridot also advises Chinese entities seeking to make investments or raise capital in the United States. Peridot clients currently include some of the world’s largest financial institutions and most successful global businesses and private equity investors.
What We Do
Peridot helps clients find the best opportunities and the right partners for their businesses. We provide transaction support in doing due diligence, and we assist in structuring and negotiating the transaction, obtaining regulatory approvals and monitoring progress as needed. We also assist in dispute resolution.
Contact Information
Peridot Asia Advisors, LLC
410 Park Avenue, Suite 1530
New York, N.Y. 10022
Phone: 212-231-8185
Fax: 212-231-8218
Mary Darby
marydarby@peridotadvisors.com
cell phone: 917-421-2198
Larry Darby
ladarby@peridotadvisors.com
cell phone: 917-957-3958
Our Principals
Mary Wadsworth Darby is Founder and Managing Director of Peridot Asia Advisors. She has developed a unique market expertise through her more than 25 years living and working in China and Asia in the financial services industry and with Fortune 100 companies. She has developed strategic business plans for many companies, advised on market opening strategies and negotiated numerous significant and complex transactions with her Chinese counterparts. She was the first US businesswoman to travel to China after the historic Nixon-Kissinger opening.
Before founding Peridot, Mary worked for Morgan Stanley in Firm Management in New York City and for Morgan Stanley Investment Management in Hong Kong. She was also Executive Director of the America-China Society, an organization devoted to the promotion of relations between the US and China chaired by Henry A. Kissinger and the late Cyrus R. Vance. Mary Darby is also a Senior Research Scholar, Jerome A. Chazen Institute, Columbia Business School.
Lawrence A. Darby, III is Senior Advisor at Peridot Asia Advisors. He is a corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions lawyer with over thirty years experience in international securities and banking law practice. Until recently, he was a partner in the law firm Kaye Scholer LLP and was resident in that firm’s Hong Kong and New York City offices. Before that, he was a founding partner of the law firm Howard, Darby & Levin and he practiced with Sullivan & Cromwell. He is a member of the New York Bar and Chair of the Asia-Pacific Law Committee of the New York State Bar Association.