Guy Hands

...for EMI in 2007. Wounded by collapsing music sales like the rest of the industry, EMI was acquired in 2007 by British financier Guy Hands and his Terra Firma Capital Partners for GBP2.4 billion, or about $4 billion now. Mr. Hands applied...

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...as 40 executives at EMI, though that number is now down to 10. Indeed, as music industry outsiders, Hands and EMI boss Elio Leoni-Sceti are seen as liabilities themselves. Leoni-Sceti was most recently a marketing executive with consumer...

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...of the 50% tax rate. The actor Michael Caine has hinted that the new rate could drive him over the Atlantic, while Guy Hands, the City financier behind EMI, recently relocated to Guernsey for tax reasons. When the footballer Jermaine...

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...which he said the country was "rotting". Guy Hands, the financier who owns the EMI record label, moved to Guernsey this summer, while Sir Michael Caine, the actor, has threatened to quit Britain. Hedge fund managers are moving to...

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...in discord over pensions Guy Hands, the private equity magnate behind EMI, forced out the head of the music group's GBP1 billion UK pension fund after a long-running row about top-up payments to the scheme. Ian Smellie, chairman of the...

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...across the water Guy Hands, the private equity tycoon who owns EMI, the music group, is leaving Britain in protest at the rise in the top rate of income tax announced in the Budget, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. Last Updated: 12:29AM...

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...only to one place: Citigroup, which provided the finance for the deal. The bank has become Hands's de facto boss now that there is more debt on the books than equity. ''Negotiations with one's bankers, when the debt is so large in relation...

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...declined sharply in terms of value by the end of last year. The most dramatic private equity battle of 2007 was won by Guy Hands, the founder of Terra Firma Capital Partners. He has already admitted that the value of his prize asset, the...

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