Greenhill hires former Goldman banker Greenhill & Co has hired former Goldman Sachs banker Luca Ferrari and is opening up a Stockholm office in a European expansion drive by the independent investment bank. Mr Ferrari, Goldman Sachs" former head of M&A for Northern Europe, is set to join the boutique advisory firm this August as co-head of its European corporate advisory business, people close to the situation said. Greenhill will also open up a Stockholm office that will be headed by Mats Bremberg. The banker will join the firm from Citigroup, where he most recently acted as head of Nordic investment banking. In a third prominent hiring, Anthony Parsons, former vice-chairman of UK M&A at Deutsche Bank, will join the independent investment bank as a senior member of its UK advisory team. The hiring spree, set to be announced later on Thursday, comes as the boutique firm, founded by Robert Greenhill 16 years ago, seeks to rebuild its senior dealmaker line-up in Europe. Most recently, senior departures at Greenhill had raised questions among competitors about who would succeed its European leaders. Greenhill lost Simon Borrows to private equity group 3i last year and more recently Brian Cassin to Experian, where the former European co-head of the business will be its chief financial officer. Previously James Lupton, chairman in Europe, and Mr Borrows had been the well known faces of Greenhill in London. But Mr Borrows departure last year triggered a debate in the sector about who would succeed the duo. In the wake of Mr Borrows" departure Mr Cassin and David Wyles, who had been with Greenhill for the past 13 years, were appointed co-heads of the firm's European corporate advisory business. The pair were also at Barings with Mr Borrows and Mr Lupton and joined when the European practice was founded in 1998. Mr Ferrari and Mr Parsons are two well-known European dealmakers. Mr Ferrari left Goldman Sachs earlier this year after 12 years. Before joining the US investment bank firm, he spent 9 years in the merger advisory business at UBS Warburg. ‬ Mr Ferrari most recently was working as one of miner Xstrata's bankers on a proposed merger with commodity trader Glencore. Mr Parsons previously led Deutsche Bank's UK M&A business before becoming vice-chairman of UK M&A. He is a specialist in the industrials sector.