Private equity boss Guy Hands surprises the City as it emerges he is poised to re-open legal hostilities with Citigroup over his disastrous £4 billion purchase of EMI... more
Citigroup spent more than £1.4 million on accountants and legal advice in only seven weeks before it seized control of record label EMI from financier Guy Hands... more
Britain's biggest cinema chain, Odeon & UCI, looks to be up for sale for as much as £1 billion as owner Guy Hands tries to boost his reputation after the debacle over record label EMI
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As The Beatles sang in Penny Lane: "We see the banker waiting for a trim." Well, Guy Hands and his erstwhile friends at Citigroup have now taken a full haircut on their investment in EMI... more
City Comment: It would surely be best if Citigroup and Terra Firma now do what they should have done months ago — sit down and negotiate a resolution of their differences... more
Terra Firma boss Guy Hands races to begin a new fundraising effort to keep control of record label EMI after his court defeat against lender Citigroup... more
'I must get on and run my other businesses for my investors' — that was the reaction today from Guy Hands to his defeat in a New York courtroom over his £4.2billion purchase of EMI... more
London Citigroup banker David Wormsley tells a New York court he always tried to be honest in his dealings with Terra Firma over the private equity firm's EMI deal... more
Two of the City’s biggest players are at war over the future of British record label EMI. And the ‘commercial trial of the decade’ will be played out not here but in a New York courtroom... more
You've got to love Terra Firma boss Guy Hands' legal evidence of brown-nosing from Citigroup bankers as they allegedly persuaded him to overpay for their client, record label EMI... more
Corporate raider Guy Hands is closing in on his hostile takeover of Novera Energy, today raising his offer and securing the defection of a leading shareholder
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Banking giant Citigroup has rejected attempts by Terra Firma, Guy Hands’s private equity firm, to restructure EMI, the music business it bought for £2.5 billion in 2007 ... more
Guy Hands’ hostile green energy takeover bid for Novera exploded in acrimony today after blue-chip shareholders rallied behind Novera and accused the buyout baron of “ethically questionable” takeover tactics ... more
Energy analysis: They are going to start calling him Clean Hands. Guy Hands, probably the biggest name in UK private equity, has made his greatest declaration of intent yet to become the biggest name in clean technology... more
Guy Hands’ latest tilt at becoming the king of the windmills ran into trouble today after an offer to take over one of Britain’s leading green energy firms was dismissed as a bid being made on the cheap
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