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Capital Confidential: dodgy dealings at EMI

Guy Hands’ fears for his life while he was putting EMI on the straight and narrow; altruism from the City’s brokerage houses; and rumours of a Howard-Rokos reconciliation

Capital Confidential: dodgy dealings at EMI

Welcome to FN’s weekly diary column featuring all the best titbits from around the City of London...

Getting into the wrong Hands
Guy Hands’ ill-fated £4.2bn takeover of EMI in 2007 ultimately led to the death of the storied music label, with it being broken up five years later. But the private equity tycoon has now revealed “drug gangs” at EMI were out to physically assault him after his firm Terra Firma Capital Partners began running the label.

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