page_title: Terra Firma Capital Partners
section_title: Investments
hierarchical_section_title: Terra Firma Capital Partners / Investments
caption_attribution_description: English: An INFINIS energy to waste processing plant.
context_page_description: Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd. is a UK-based private equity firm. Financier Guy Hands founded the firm in 2002 through the spin-off of Nomura Principal Finance Group. The firm, which traces its roots to the formation of its predecessor in 1994, has invested over €14 billion since inception.
  Terra Firma invests across a range of sectors and has focused on leveraged buyouts of large, asset-rich businesses, often with complex structural or regulatory issues. The firm often targets under-performing businesses in need of strategic, operational, or management change.
  Terra Firma is headquartered in London with offices in Guernsey and Beijing. It has a staff of over 90 employees.
context_section_description: Between 1994 and 2011, Terra Firma and its predecessor invested approximately €13 billion in equity and completed transactions with an aggregate enterprise value of €44 billion.
  Terra Firma is known for its failed investment in British music company EMI, which was later taken over by Citigroup, the main lender in the investment.
  The firm's early investments, while still a division of Nomura, focused on housing (Annington Homes), leasing companies and pubs. Since 2002, the firm has made major investments in the waste management (Waste Recycling Group), energy (BGCL, East Surrey Holdings, Phoenix Natural Gas, and Infinis), aircraft leasing (AWAS), cinema (Odeon Cinemas/UCI) and music sectors (EMI).  TFCP has also made significant investments in German residential housing (Deutsche Annington) and motorway services (Tank & Rast). As of 2015 Terra Firma have announced their
  intentions to sell off the ODEON & UCI Cinema Group for a reported £1 Billion. In July 2016, the company was bought for $921 million by U.S AMC Theaters, which is owned by Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group, subject to European Commission approval. The deal received approval from the European Commission on 17 November 2016, and was completed on 30 November 2016.
  More recently, Terra Firma has been an active investor in renewable energy. Its investments include Infinis, a UK independent pure green energy business, EverPower, a U.S. based wind energy business and RTR, an Italian solar energy business.
caption: An Infinis Ltd. waste-to-energy processing plant
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