NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE: GHL), a leading independent investment bank, announced today that Anne Eastep will join the Firm in New York as a Managing Director focused primarily on the insurance sector. 

Ms. Eastep has more than 20 years experience in the insurance sector, most recently as a Managing Director at Citigroup and prior to that at Deutsche Bank.  Earlier in her career she spent four years at Greenhill, rising to the level of Principal, before leaving to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity in the insurance sector.

Scott L. Bok, Chief Executive Officer of Greenhill, said, "We are pleased to expand our coverage of the insurance sector with the addition of a banker of Anne's experience and expertise, who we already know is a perfect fit for our Firm culture.  In her time with our Firm earlier in her career she demonstrated a deep knowledge of both the life and property and casualty businesses, and she went on to develop a broad set of relationships in the sector during her time as a Managing Director at both Citigroup and Deutsche Bank.  We have had considerable success in the insurance sector in the past few years, and plan to build on that with much broader ongoing coverage of the sector going forward."

Greenhill & Co., Inc. is a leading independent investment bank focused on providing financial advice on significant mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, financings and capital raising to corporations, partnerships, institutions and governments.  It acts for clients located throughout the world from its offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Melbourne and San Francisco.

SOURCE Greenhill & Co., Inc.