GCP Capital Partners (“GCP”) manages three North American private equity funds that have a successful track record of investing $1.1 billion in nearly 50 portfolio companies. GCP has monetized 34 of these investments, returning $2.1 billion in proceeds. The funds have made significant investments in the business services, education, energy, financial services, insurance and telecommunications industries. GCP generally makes controlling or influential minority investments of $10 million to $50 million in companies with enterprise values of $20 million to $250 million. GCP Capital Partners was formed as the successor to Greenhill Capital Partners, the merchant banking business of Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE: GHL), which was founded in 2000. With the support of Greenhill & Co., the founders and senior investment professionals of Greenhill Capital Partners founded GCP Capital in December 2009 to manage the existing Greenhill Capital Partners funds and to raise successor funds.