US investment banking boutique Greenhill & Co has followed up a stellar fourth quarter for advisory fees with a promising start to 2013.

Greenhill enjoyed its best quarter for advisory fees since 2007 in the last three months of last year - earning $100.4m for the period. And the bank yesterday revealed it had added another $81.4m of advisory fees during the first quarter of 2013, up 11% year-on-year.