Greenhill & Co. (GHL:US) gained the most since July after the firm acted as sole adviser to Actavis Plc (ACT:US) in its $25 billion bid for Forest Laboratories Inc. (FRX:US)
Greenhill, founded by former Morgan Stanley President Robert F. Greenhill, rose 7 percent to $52.18 at 1:22 p.m. in New York and advanced as much as 9.2 percent during the session. The rally buoyed the stock after a 16 percent slide this year through last week, following a fourth quarter that included a 25 percent drop in advisory revenue.
“There was definitely a great deal of relief to see them on a large deal,” said Brennan Hawken, an analyst at UBS AG, who assigns a neutral rating to the stock. “Often when you have a deal that big, there is more than one adviser. They are getting all the revenue on the buy side.”
Hawken said the stock had become a target of short-sellers, who are probably buying today to cut their losses after betting on a further decline. Jeffrey Taufield, Greenhill’s spokesman, said in an e-mail that the company had no comment.
Actavis, the world’s second-largest generic-drug maker by market value, is seeking to become a developer of brand-name drugs.
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