Hints and tips:
...“When I founded Terra Firma over 20 years ago, I vowed that I would retire from the firm ‘when I’m 64’, as per the eponymous Beatles song....
...“Because I think investors should know that.” “I think investors do know that and they would expect it,” Mr Hands insisted....
...This year, Terra Firma sold Tank & Rast, a chain of service stations on Germany’s Autobahn network, to institutional investors for 7.5 times its original investment....
...Clerics recall his predecessor saying: “As an old-style treasurer I dealt with the money I had. My successor is dealing with the money he thinks he will have some day.”...
...“Yeah my mouth is full of gold and I’m a city boy/ My outfit was in Vogue and I’m a pretty boy,” he rapped on it. Vogue beckons again following A$AP’s link-up with DKNY’s spring/summer campaign....
...“I believe that consultancies ultimately compete on culture.”...
...I wear clothes! I get put on best-dressed/sexiest man in the world lists continually! I can recognise good stuff, ergo I can make good stuff....
...Last year, he tried, and failed, to acquire the Tank Rast restaurants that pop up along Germany’s autobahns....
...Dietrich Becker, managing director at Morgan Stanley, agrees: "I expect 2005 to be more active than last year." Some add a note of caution....
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