NEW YORK, December 10, 2018 – Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE: GHL), a leading independent investment bank, announced today that Dacre Barrett-Lennard will join the Firm in London in mid-February as a Managing Director and Co-Head of EMEA Financing Advisory and Restructuring.
Mr. Barrett-Lennard has over 20 years of restructuring and financing experience, most recently as a Managing Director at Rothschild & Co in London, where he has worked for the past 12 years. Prior to that he worked in the restructuring area as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in London, Hong Kong and Melbourne. He began his career with Arthur Andersen in Australia, similarly focused on restructuring.
David Wyles, Co-President of Greenhill, said, “We are pleased to add a senior restructuring specialist of Dacre’s calibre to our London team. This has been a particularly strong year for us in European M&A, and we are looking to continue to grow that business. At the same time, we want to diversify and balance our sources of revenue by growing our restructuring practice in Europe, expanding our market presence and attracting new talent, as we did in the U.S. earlier this year.”
Scott L. Bok, Chief Executive Officer of Greenhill, said, “Recruiting is now a year-round effort at our Firm as we look to continue our expansion within various industry sectors, in key economic regions and across the key types of advisory services. This has been a particularly successful year of recruiting senior talent, and we look forward to further success in months to come.”
Greenhill & Co., Inc. is a leading independent investment bank entirely focused on providing financial advice on significant mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, financings and capital raising to corporations, partnerships, institutions and governments globally. It acts for clients located throughout the world from its offices in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Madrid, Melbourne, San Francisco, São Paulo, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.