Greenhill & Co is a US-based investment bank, founded in 1996. The company operates offices in the US, the UK, Europe, Canada, and Japan. It provides financial advisory services, such as advice on strategic matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, divestitures, defensive tactics, special committee assignments, and other corporate events. The company also offers advice on valuation, strategy, industry dynamics, structuring alternatives, timing and pricing of transactions, and financing alternatives. In addition, Greenhill & Co manages merchant banking funds and similar vehicles, and commits capital to those funds and vehicles.