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The Dealmaker - Guy Hands

The Dealmaker

Guy Hands

出版社

Penguin

出版时间

2022-11-01

ISBN

9781847940575

评分

★★★★★

标签

投资金融荐书私募股权

书籍介绍
The Dealmaker is a frank and honest account of how a severely dyslexic child who struggled at school went on to graduate from Oxford and become a serial entrepreneur. It describes Guy Hand's career in private equity, first at Nomura and then as head of his own company, Terra Firma. It looks in detail at the huge deals that Terra Firma has done over the years, involving everything from cinema chains and pubs to waste management, aircraft leasing and green energy. And it offers a brutally honest appraisal of the deal that almost bankrupted him - the acquisition of multinational music recording and publishing company EMI in 2007, just as a global financial crash loomed on the horizon. Above all, it takes the reader inside the previously very secretive world of private equity, explaining how this multi-billion pound sector operates and what opportunities it offers. Both insightful and page-turning, it will prove inspirational and essential reading for all those concerned with or interested in the world of investment.
AI导读
核心看点
  • 欧洲PE大佬Guy Hands自传，披露泰丰资本内幕
  • 详述从读写障碍儿童到牛津毕业再到私募巨头的逆袭
  • 深度复盘收购EMI失败案例，剖析杠杆收购的残酷真相
适合谁读
  • 对私募股权、并购交易及金融投资感兴趣的专业人士
  • 关注商业传记、企业家成长史及职场进阶的读者
  • 对行为经济学、团队管理及个人逆境突围有共鸣的人
读前提醒
  • 作者坦诚剖析失败，重点阅读EMI收购章节以避坑
  • 书中涉及大量金融术语，建议结合宏观背景理解
  • 作者风格直率，部分章节侧重个人心路而非纯理论
读者共识
  • 交易细节记录详尽，真实展现了PE行业的运作逻辑
  • 作者未能完全承认EMI失误，部分读者认为其自我辩护
  • 虽无深刻社会情怀，但作为实战派传记极具参考价值

本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。

精彩摘录
  • "Academic ‘cleverness’ has nothing to do with it. I employed ordinarily smart people who proved outstanding and supposedly brilliant Oxford undergraduates who didn’t make a single sale. Many years later, at EMI, I found an entire company staffed by clever people who didn’t know how to make a sale. I "
  • "Today I still hold that macroeconomics is of little use unless you also understand behavioural science, and that in business you can’t communicate with people if you don’t understand something of their background. In politics, I struggled with the history but was intrigued by the psychological eleme"
  • "But if Oxford confirmed my desire to go into business, it also awoke a political consciousness. For the first time in my life, I found myself surrounded by people who had inherited privilege, who assumed they had a right to do so, whose life goal was to use that privilege to secure jobs in politics,"
  • "The others spoke volubly about the British Empire and the rise of the Whigs and Tories. They seemed to know an enormous amount about the past, perhaps because they were still living in it. I, by contrast, was tongue-tied, felt humiliated – and was never asked back. But I knew instinctively that my p"
  • "At the time, as now, the links between the Conservative Party and Oxford were strong. Theresa May, who graduated from Oxford in 1977, often returned to visit friends and drink at the Oxford Union. Three years older than me, she was intelligent, self-assured, sophisticated and glamorous. She also see"
  • "I soon realised I couldn’t hold my own in such company, and spent the rest of the weekend longing for it to be over. I remember wondering why, instead of talking about major social issues and the future of Britain, the assembled company seemed interested only in discussing politics past and how to w"
  • "On the back I had put the following quotation: ‘Democracy is rule by the uneducated, while aristocracy is rule by the badly educated’ (my truncated version of the G. K. Chesterton remark: ‘Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated’)."
  • "One encounter gave me some hope. Ahead of one debate I found myself in the urinals of the OU standing next to former prime minister Harold Macmillan. I noticed he was desperately nervous, so much so indeed that he confided to me that he was fearful that with his hand shaking so much he would end up "
作者简介
Guy Hands, who was born in 1959, graduated with an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Mansfield College, Oxford, and then went to work for Goldman Sachs International where he became Head of Eurobond Trading, and then Head of Goldman Sachs' Global Asset Structuring Group. He left Goldman Sachs in 1994 for Nomura International plc where he established PFG before spinning out Terra Firma as an independent private equity firm in 2002. Since then, he has overseen the investment of €17 billion of equity in 35 businesses with an aggregate value of €48 billion.
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