Guy Hands

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Guy Hands is a financier and the current CEO of the private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners. Previously he made a fortune as Managing Director of the Principal Finance Group at Nomura, with the purchase of a chain of UK pubs. Reputed to be a "big hitter" in the city of London, other acquisitions have been of the "where there's muck there's brass" variety with the purchase of a waste water company. The private equity company has also bought a quantity of property in both the UK and Germany, ex MOD residential housing and motorway service stations. Notably the private equity firm is also the largest owner of cinemas in Europe, having taken control of not only the UCI but the Odeon chains as well. Educated at The Judd School, Tonbridge, and Mansfield College, Oxford, his friends include William Hague, whilst his house in Sevenoaks, Kent, England was once presented to Winston Churchill.