S&P Capital IQ Power Moves

Greenhill & Co. announced it is transitioning the chief financial officer role from Richard J. Lieb to Christopher T. Grubb, effective May 1, 2012.

Grubb is a principal of the firm, who joined six years ago from UBS. He has advised clients on a variety of M&A and restructuring transactions and also played a variety of administrative roles in the firm. As was the case with Lieb, he will continue to work on selected client matters while also serving as chief financial officer.

He had also recently become head of North American corporate advisory, and will return to a full-time focus on client advisory activities. -PR Newswire; Transcript Collection

Greenhill announced that Yasuyuki Miyoshi will join the firm as a managing director based in Tokyo.

Mr. Miyoshi will focus at Greenhill on advising major Japanese companies on mergers, acquisitions and restructurings.

Mr. Miyoshi has been one of the founding partners of The Longreach Group, a leading Japanese private equity fund, and prior to that was a managing director in investment banking at Merrill Lynch, where he worked for 5 years. Prior to his time at Merrill Lynch he served in several roles over 14 years at Sumitomo Bank in Japan and the United States. He has 26 years of relevant experience, with particular focus in the financial institutions sector and in restructuring. -PR Newswire

Greenhill announced that William D. Perez will join the firm as a senior advisor.

Mr. Perez, who has had a distinguished career in the consumer products industry, will focus on expanding Greenhill’s client advisory activities.

Mr. Perez is the retired president and chief executive officer for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Before joining the Wrigley, he served as president and chief executive officer of Nike. -PR Newswire

Greenhill & Co. announced that Samuel L. Ginn will become a senior advisor to the firm. Mr. Ginn will focus on building Greenhill’s advisory relationships with leading companies around the world. Mr. Ginn will work closely with Greenhill’s San Francisco office. Mr. Ginn retired as chairman of the board of Vodafone Group in 2000. -PR Newswire

Greenhill & Co. announced that Seamus Moorhead and Charles Gournay will join the company as managing directors, based in London, focused on the consumer and retail sectors. Mr. Moorhead was co-global head of consumer and retail investment banking for UBS Investment Bank where he had been a managing director for 6 years. Seamus joined S.G. Warburg in 1991 after reading law at Oxford University. Mr. Gournay joined UBS Investment Bank in 2006 and was a managing director in the consumer & retail group. Prior to that, he worked in the consumer and retail group at Merrill Lynch for 8 years. -PR Newswire

Greenhill announced that Vittorio Perona will join the firm as a managing director based in London and will lead the firm’s European energy and utilities team. Mr. Perona, 39, has been leading the global power, natural resources and chemical group of Dresdner Kleinwort where he has been a managing director for the last six years. Mr. Perona joined Kleinwort Benson in London as a graduate trainee in 1992 and has worked in both London and Brazil for the Group.-PR Newswire

Greenhill & Co. announced that Alejandro Przygoda will join the firm as a managing director to lead advisory efforts in the insurance sector. Przygoda, 41, has been heading the global insurance practice of UBS, where he has been a managing director for six years. Prior to that he was managing director at Credit Suisse in the financial institutions group, where he spent nearly ten years. Prior to his time at Credit Suisse, he was a chief financial officer of General Re’s Argentine subsidiary.-PR Newswire

Greenhill & Co. announced that Robert K. Collins will join the firm as a managing director in Chicago office to lead advisory effort for the infrastructure sector in the Americas. Mr. Collins, 39, has been a managing director and head of infrastructure investment banking for the Americas at Morgan Stanley. Over the course of his investment banking career, Mr. Collins has worked on M&A and financing engagements totaling over $85 billion.-PR Newswire

Greenhill & Co. announced that Kenneth A. Goldman will become a senior advisor to the firm. Mr. Goldman, who has had a distinguished career in the technology industry, will focus on Greenhill’s strategic advisory activities with technology companies in Silicon Valley.

Mr. Goldman, who has 35 years of experience in the technology industry, has led more than 100 strategic transactions over the course of his career. He currently serves as the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Fortinet. From August 2000 to March 2006, he served as senior vice president, finance and administration, and chief financial officer of Siebel Systems.-PR Newswire

Greenhill & Co. opened a Tokyo office to advise Japanese companies on domestic and cross-border merger, acquisition and restructuring opportunities.

Kensuke Hotta, formerly chairman of Morgan Stanley Japan, has joined the firm, effective immediately, as chairman of Greenhill Japan. Hiroto Yamada, formerly head of Merrill Lynch Japan’s M&A Group, will join Greenhill in January as MD of Greenhill Japan. Mr. Hotta was most recently an advisor to Morgan Stanley Japan, where he previously served as chairman for 7 years.-Other

Greenhill & Co. announced that Christopher Cooke will join the firm as a managing director in its recently formed fund placement group. Mr. Cooke, who previously worked as a managing director at Lehman Brothers with the other members of the firm’s fund placement advisory group, will be based in London and will focus on extending the group’s capabilities to the European market. Mr. Cooke was most recently with CQS, as a member of the fund raising and investor relations team. Prior to joining CQS in 2007, he was a London-based managing director at Lehman Brothers where he was responsible for European and Middle East fund raising for buy-out funds, fund of funds, co-investment funds and real estate funds.-PR Newswire

Greenhill & Co. announced that Richard C. Jacobsen, Jr. will join the firm as a managing director. Mr. Jacobsen, who has served as managing director and head of health care services investment banking at Citigroup, will be based in San Francisco and will focus on the health care services sector at Greenhill. Mr. Jacobsen, 47, has spent 17 years covering health care companies as an investment banker at Citigroup and its predecessors, with a primary focus on the health care services segment.-PR Newswire

Greenhill & Co. plans to form a fund placement advisory group to assist private equity funds in raising capital from a global set of institutional and other investors. Christopher D. Kirsten, who has served as global head of the private fund marketing group at Lehman Brothers, will join the firm to lead that effort.

In addition, the firm announced that Patrick S. Dunleavy and Neil Banta will join the firm as managing directors, along with Dave Brown, who will join as a principal, and Meghan Kelly, who will join as a vice president, each having served in the private fund marketing Group at Lehman.

Mr. Kirsten has led the private fund marketing group at Lehman Brothers since 2003 and has been responsible for managing fundraising programs for private equity, venture capital and other private funds sponsored by Lehman as well as independent fund sponsors.

Mr. Dunleavy has been managing director and global head of origination for Lehman’s private fund marketing group.

Mr. Banta has been a managing director of Lehman’s private fund marketing group.

Mr. Brown has served as a senior vice president of Lehman’s private fund marketing group, and prior to that was a director of New York Life Investment Management.

Ms. Kelly has served as a vice president in Lehman’s private fund marketing group.-PR Newswire

Greenhill & Co., an independent investment bank, announced today that Andrew K. Woeber will join the firm as a managing director. Mr. Woeber, who has been a managing director at Morgan Stanley based in San Francisco, will open a San Francisco office for Greenhill.

Mr. Woeber has been an investment banker at Morgan Stanley since 2000. Prior to that, he worked in mergers & acquisitions at Merrill Lynch and was an attorney with Cravath, Swaine & Moore. -PR Newswire

Greenhill & Co., an independent investment bank, announced today that Douglas Black, Q.C. will join the firm as a senior advisor based in Calgary, Alberta. Mr. Black, who has a legal and business career in Canada, will focus on expanding Greenhill’s advisory activities in that market. Greenhill serves the Canadian market through its office in Toronto.

Mr. Black is currently vice chairman of Fraser Milner Casgrain, a prominent Canadian law firm. Mr. Black also serves on the boards of Prime Restaurants Royalty Income Trust and Spectra Energy Income Fund, both of which are listed on Canadian stock exchanges, as well as on the boards of various private companies and philanthropic organizations. -PR Newswire