NEW YORK, July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE: GHL), a leading independent investment bank, announced today that it has commenced an offering of 3,000,000 shares of common stock currently owned by certain managing directors and senior advisors of Greenhill & Co. It is expected that the selling stockholders will grant the underwriters an option to purchase an additional 450,000 shares of common stock. Goldman, Sachs & Co. will act as bookrunning manager for the offering. Greenhill & Co. will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares to be offered and sold by the selling stockholders. The shares will be offered and sold pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement that was previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A preliminary prospectus supplement related to the offering has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is available on the SEC's website http://www.sec.gov/. Copies of the prospectus supplement for this offering may be obtained from Goldman, Sachs & Co., Attn: Prospectus Department, 85 Broad St., New York, NY 10004 or by faxing (212) 902-9316 or by emailing . This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. Contact: Richard J. Lieb Chief Financial Officer Greenhill & Co., Inc. (212) 389-1500 DATASOURCE: Greenhill & Co., Inc. CONTACT: Richard J. Lieb, Chief Financial Officer, Greenhill & Co., Inc., +1-212-389-1500 Web Site: http://www.greenhill.com/

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