Greenhill & Co., Inc., an independent investment bank, provides financial advice on mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, financings, and capital raising to corporations, partnerships, institutions, and governments worldwide. The company offers a range of advice to clients in relation to domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and related corporate finance matters; and is involved in various stages of these transactions, from initial structuring to final execution. It advises clients on strategic matters, including acquisitions, divestitures, defensive tactics, special committee projects, and other corporate events; and on valuations, tactics, industry dynamics, structuring alternatives, timing and pricing of transactions, and financing alternatives, as well as offers an opinion regarding the fairness of a transaction. The company's financing and restructuring services include advising debtors, creditors, governments, and companies experiencing financial distress, as well as potential acquirers of distressed companies and assets. It provides advice on valuations, restructuring alternatives, capital structures, financing alternatives, and sales or recapitalizations. Greenhill & Co., Inc. also assists the clients, who seek court-assisted reorganizations by developing and seeking approval for plans of reorganization, as well as in the implementation of such plans. The company's private capital and real estate capital advisory services include assisting fund managers and sponsors in raising capital for new funds; and providing related advisory services to private equity and real estate funds, and other organizations. It also advises on secondary transactions. Greenhill & Co., Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, New York.