Terra Firma

Terra Firma

London, United KingdomEst. 199439 employeeswww.terrafirma.com
$3.00B AUM
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Terra Firma drives value creation. Founded by Private Equity pioneer Guy Hands in 1994, Terra Firma has a 26-year track record of investing in transformational private equity, operational real estate and infrastructure plus. Since establishment, Terra Firma has invested €18 billion in 39 businesses with an aggregate enterprise value of over €51 billion. Terra Firma means ‘solid ground’. It reflects our consistent and distinctive approach to investment. We buy asset-rich businesses in essential industries that can be transformed through fundamental change in the long term. As such, we invest time, money and expertise into transforming the strategy, operations and finances of the businesses we acquire, recognising that long term success is not achieved purely by focusing on short-term objectives but through dedicated partnership, integrity and tenacity.

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For more than 20 years we have followed a consistent investment approach of acquiring companies that have been overlooked, are underperforming or whose performance we feel can be significantly improved. These may be in sectors that are out-of-favour or be businesses that have been under-managed or under-capitalised. Our goal is to generate superior returns by building better businesses: transforming the strategy, operations and finances of the businesses we acquire to make them best-in-class. All of our investments share three characteristics: they are asset-backed, in what we consider to be essential industries and require transformational change. Our investment process starts with our view of what is happening at the macro and global level. We identify how these trends could create opportunities. We then look for businesses that we believe are well positioned to seize them.

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