Greenhill is a leading independent investment bank that provides financial
and strategic advice on significant domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions,
divestitures, restructurings, financings, capital raising and other transactions
to a diverse client base, including corporations, partnerships, institutions
and governments. We serve as a trusted advisor to our clients throughout the
world on a collaborative, globally integrated basis from our offices in the
United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong,
Singapore, Canada and Brazil.
At Greenhill, we are singularly focused on providing conflict-free advice to
clients on a wide variety of complex financial matters, using our global resources
to provide a combination of transaction experience, industry sector expertise
and knowledge of relevant regional markets. We work seamlessly across offices
and markets to provide the highest caliber advice and services to our clients.
Greenhill was established in 1996 by Robert F. Greenhill, the former President
of Morgan Stanley and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Smith Barney.
Since our founding, Greenhill has grown through recruiting talented managing
directors and other senior professionals, by acquiring complementary advisory
businesses and by training, developing and promoting professionals internally.
We have expanded beyond merger and acquisition advisory services to include
financing, restructuring, and capital advisory services, and we have expanded
the breadth of our sector expertise to cover substantially all major industries.
Since the opening of our original office in New York, we have expanded globally
to 15 offices across five continents.
Greenhill is a unique global investment banking firm, not only in relation
to the large integrated, or "bulge bracket", institutions which engage
in commercial lending, underwriting, research, sales and trading and other businesses,
but also in relation to other so called "independent" investment banks,
many of which engage in investment management, research and capital markets
businesses, all of which can create conflicts with clients interests. Greenhills
singular focus on advisory services differentiates us from other investment
banks, and enables us to offer best-in-class service to each of our clients.
Advising clients is our only business. We do not engage in investing, trading,
lending, underwriting, research or investment management businesses. Our clients
interests are our sole priority.
We provide unbiased, conflict free advice. We have no products or additional
services to cross-sell and, thus, no inherent conflicts of interest. We also
have no lending, prime brokerage or other relationships with activist investors.
We maintain the highest levels of confidentiality. Our advisory only business
model and minimal conflicts enable us to maintain greater client confidentiality
with fewer real or perceived risks of leaks.
Senior level attention is fundamental to our model. Our managing directors,
who are seasoned professionals with both transaction expertise and sector and
regional knowledge, are actively engaged in our client mandates from origination
through execution and closing.
We offer a collaborative approach to global client service. Our professionals
around the globe work together on a fully integrated, one firm-one team approach
to advance the interests of our clients.
We provide comprehensive financial advisory services primarily in connection
with mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, financings, capital
raising and other transactions. We also provide advice in connection with defense
preparedness, activist response strategies and other mission critical situations.
For all of our advisory services, we draw on the extensive experience, senior
relationships and industry expertise of our managing directors and senior advisors.
Mergers and Acquisitions. On merger and acquisition engagements, we provide
a broad range of advice to global clients in relation to domestic and cross-border
mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs and other strategic transactions,
through all stages of a transactions life cycle, from initial structuring and
negotiation to final execution. Our focus is on providing high-quality, unbiased
advice to senior executive management teams, boards of directors and special
committees of prominent large and mid-cap companies and to key decision makers
at governments and at large institutions on transactions that typically are
of the highest strategic and financial importance to our clients. We have specialists
in nearly every significant industry sector who work closely with our transaction
specialists to provide the highest quality advice and transaction execution.
In addition to merger and acquisition transactions, we advise clients on a full
range of critical strategic matters, including activist response, defensive
tactics, special committee projects, licensing deals and joint ventures. We
provide advice on valuation, negotiation tactics, industry dynamics, structuring
alternatives, timing and pricing of transactions, as well as financing alternatives.
In appropriate situations, we also provide fairness opinions with regard to
merger and acquisition transactions.
Financing Advisory and Restructuring. Our financing advisory and restructuring
practice encompasses a wide range of advisory services. In debt restructurings,
we advise debtors, creditors, governments, pension funds and other stakeholders
in companies experiencing financial distress, as well as potential acquirers
of distressed companies and assets. We provide advice on valuation, restructuring
alternatives, capital structures, financing alternatives, and sales or recapitalizations,
and assist clients in identifying and capitalizing on potential incremental
sources of value. We also assist those clients who seek court-assisted reorganizations
by developing and seeking approval for plans of reorganization as well as the
implementation of such plans. In addition to debt restructurings, we advise
on a variety of other financing matters, including debt issuances, equity financings,
exchange offers and spin-off transactions. We also provide advice on initial
public offerings (IPOs) and other equity capital market transactions in which
clients value independent advice from a knowledgeable advisor who does not stand
to earn substantial underwriting or placement fees.
Capital Advisory. In our capital advisory business, we assist general partners
and sponsors in raising capital for new private funds and provide related advisory
services to these entities globally. Our capital advisory group provides clients
with comprehensive global marketing efforts to a diverse investor base of pension
funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and other institutional investors
worldwide and is one of the leading advisors to real estate funds globally.
Through Cogent Partners, LP ("Cogent" or now known as "Greenhill
Cogent"), which we acquired on April 1, 2015, we also are one of the leading
global financial advisors to pension funds, endowments and other institutional
investors on the secondary market for the sale of alternative assets. Greenhill
Cogent advises such institutions on secondary sales of interests in private
equity and similar funds, as well as providing advice to alternative asset fund
sponsors for restructuring, financing, valuation and related services.
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