Independent advisory firms, which used the financial crisis as an opportunity to hire banking talent, are looking at the fallout from Brexit as a shot at doing so again.

Amid all the talk of the City's big banks potentially moving thousands of staff out of London in the wake of last week's vote, smaller firms like Greenhill & Co, Moelis & Co and Perella Weinberg are hoping the decision to leave the EU will encourage even more talent in their direction.