Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited · London United Kingdom

Hope those investments are on sold ground? Terra Firma Capital Partners does too. The investment firm targets under-performing or out-of-favor companies and works closely with them to turn them around before selling them or spinning them off in an IPO, ideally within five years. It manages approximately €11 billion worth of assets for institutional investors such as pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, and charitable foundations. Terra Firma's portfolio consists of about ten companies, including music publisher EMI (bought in 2007 for more than $4.5 billion), movie theater chain Odeon, military housing provider Annington Homes, and AWAS, one of the largest aircraft leasing firms in the world. To read the full description, subscribe now.