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Thursday 17 September 2009 8:00 pm  |  Updated:  Saturday 01 June 2019 12:50 am

GUY HOLDS HIS HANDS UP

By: admindrupal

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GUY Hands, the founder of private equity firm Terra Firma, yesterday conceded that he had paid too much for music firm EMI, his largest investment at £4bn. He said he would not have bought the company if the auction for the company, held in 2007, had happened just two weeks later.

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