WHO IS GUY HANDS?

GUY Hands is one of the most prominent power brokers in the City, and has made more than £40bn of deals. His Terra Firma private equity business also owns garden centres, developers and a power company.

The Oxford-educated wine buff worked for Goldman Sachs before starting Terra Firma in 2002. Hands, 58, also owns Ettington Park hotel in Stratford-uponAvon. The tycoon, worth an estimated £265m, is notorious for his disastrous takeover of record firm EMI at the height of the financial crash – which cost terra Firma around £2bn.