July 31, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Investment banking firm Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE: GHL) has priced an offering of three million shares currently owned by certain managing directors and senior advisors of Greenhill & Co. at $76 per share. Goldman, Sachs & Co. (NYSE: GS) is acting as bookrunning manager.

The selling stockholders have granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 450,000 shares within a 30-day period to cover additional sales. The offering is scheduled to close on August 4.

Greenhill will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares offered and sold by the selling stockholders.

New York-based Greenhill & Co. is an investment bank that provides financial advice on mergers, acquisitions and restructurings, assists private funds in raising capital from investors and manages merchant banking funds.

The company operates from offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, Tokyo, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and is set to open an office in Houston.

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