Go pay a visit to Terra Firma's brand new offices at 2 More London Riverside. If you do, forget the suave settings of Mayfair, home to most other self-respecting private equity firms in London. This is quite different. Walk in the large open-plan office and there is glass everywhere. The Terra Firma headquarters has the look and feel of a small but busy trading floor (except it isn't very noisy); to the left and right are the offices of the group's managing directors.
More Hands
In 2002, Guy Hands took his team of professionals at Nomura Principal Finance Group and spun out from the Japanese securities house. Since then, Terra Firma has raised a multi-billion Euro fund and been trawling Europe for assets. But for Hands there has also been the small matter of growing and managing the business. In January, Philip Borel stopped by the group's new home on the South Bank of the River Thames to ask how things were going
