Greenhill & Co., Inc. (GHL) operates as an autonomous investment banking firm, offering extensive financial and strategic guidance to a diverse global clientele that includes corporations, partnerships, institutional investors, and governmental bodies. The firm's primary services encompass advice on significant corporate events such as mergers, acquisitions, asset divestitures, and comprehensive restructurings. It also assists with various financing solutions and the procurement of private capital, along with other similar transactional support. Beyond direct transaction facilitation, Greenhill delivers strategic counsel on crucial matters like activist shareholder defense, special committee engagements, intellectual property licensing, and the formation of joint ventures. Its expertise further extends to valuation methodologies, negotiation tactics, market dynamics, alternative structuring approaches, optimal timing and pricing strategies for deals, and diverse financing options. A substantial portion of GHL's practice is dedicated to restructuring advisory. In this capacity, it supports a wide array of clients including debtors, creditors, government entities, other stakeholders, and acquirers of distressed companies and assets. This involves guiding them through various restructuring alternatives, optimizing capital structures, and executing sales or recapitalization efforts. The firm also helps clients identify and leverage new sources of value and skillfully manages court-supervised reorganizations by developing, gaining approval for, and implementing reorganization plans. Greenhill's capabilities also include advising on private placements of debt and structured equity, refinancing existing credit facilities, and negotiating modifications and amendments to loan covenants, often serving as an objective, independent advisor in these processes. Moreover, GHL provides specialized financial advisory services to institutional investors like pension funds and endowments regarding alternative asset transactions. It also counsels alternative asset fund sponsors on critical aspects such as private capital formation, financing arrangements, fund restructurings, liquidity strategies, asset valuation, and related operational services. Founded in 1996, Greenhill & Co., Inc. maintains its corporate headquarters in New York City.