Scott Bok
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484 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Activist investor, those phrases didn't even exist.
And the business was very specialized.
So if you wanted to get a tech deal done, you didn't go to Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs.
You went to Hambrichton Quist or Alex Brown or Montgomery Securities.
If you wanted to do a UK deal, you went to a what was called a British Merchant Bank, Kleinbert Benson, Warburg, SG Warburg, Bering Brothers, et cetera.
So everything was high.
Highly specialized as to as to what you did.
And what happened is sort of the next 10 to 15 years was a massive wave of mergers.
At the end of that wave of mergers, you know, the four, what they call the four horsemen who did technology were gone.
All the British merchant banks were gone.
Many US firms, including like Donaldson Lufkin and Jenrette, had been absorbed.
And essentially at the time Green Hill started, I would say almost all
The advisory fees in the world were paid to one of nine firms.
There were six in America and three in Europe.
So it got very, very concentrated.
And I would say Green Hill was formed, and then a whole bunch of other firms sort of followed us, particularly once we went public.
Green Hill was formed as kind of a reaction to that consolidation.
It's like you'd go to a client and say there are sort of two flavors here.
There's nine guys selling one flavor, which is one stop.
Shopping, all the different products, very sales-oriented approach.
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