Gleacher & Company (GLCH) DEFA14A Additional proxy soliciting materials

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On May 9, 2011, Gleacher & Company, Inc. filed a Current Report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission containing the following information:

On May 9, 2011, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Gleacher & Company, Inc. (the “Company”) amended the Company’s Corporate Governance Guidelines (the “Guidelines”) and the Company’s Committee on Directors and Corporate Governance Charter (the “Governance Committee Charter”), effective immediately, to establish the position of lead independent director of the Board, to be filled by the Company’s Chairperson of the Committee on Directors and Corporate Governance unless otherwise designated by the Board, and make certain other related changes.  The Guidelines and the Governance Committee Charter, as amended and restated, have been posted on the Company’s website at www.gleacher.com under the heading “Investor Relations — Corporate Governance.”  In addition, the Board designated Bruce Rohde, the current Chair of the Company’s Committee on Directors and Corporate Governance, as lead independent director of the Board, effective immediately.

On May 9, 2011, upon the recommendation of the Committee on Directors and Corporate Governance, the Board approved a resolution to reconstitute the Company’s Executive Compensation Committee to be comprised solely of three independent directors.  In connection with such reconstitution, the Board designated Robert A. Gerard, Marshall Cohen and Bruce Rohde, the Executive Compensation Committee’s independent directors, as the three members of the Executive Compensation Committee, effective immediately.

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