Greenhill is regularly engaged to advise companies – their boards of directors and management teams – in response to an activist shareholder or other unsolicited shareholder or counterparty activity.  The Firm is renowned for maintaining a client base focused on corporations, boards of directors and senior management teams – and has not and will not represent activist hedge funds or shareholders. 

Greenhill is viewed as an advisor of choice in activist shareholder situations.  Unlike most other investment banking firms, Greenhill does not have conflicts – real or perceived – with activist shareholders.  Greenhill does not engage in business lines, such as prime brokerage, that cater to, and derive meaningful compensation from, hedge funds or activist shareholders. 

Our Managing Directors and professionals in North America, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Australia and Japan have advised numerous leading companies as they have navigated complex and high-profile activist shareholder and defense situations.