Topic: Christopher Flowers

Flowers-Led Group Faces One of Europe’s Biggest PE Losses

A consortium led by financial investment specialist J.C. Flowers is facing one of the largest European private-equity losses on record after shareholders in Hypo Real Estate voted on Monday to allow the German government to take the distressed lender over and ...

Germany takes step closer to HRE nationalisation

The German government took a step closer to the full nationalisation of troubled bank Hypo Real Estate on Friday with news that it plans to take full control after a shareholder meeting on June 2.HRE, which found itself in deep trouble ...
JC Flowers chief Christopher Flowers resigns from board of German bank Hypo Real EstateChristopher Flowers, the chief of U.S. private equity firm J.C. Flowers & Flowers said Christopher Flowers and fellow supervisory board member Richard Mully, a managing partner of Grove ...

In This Week's Observer...

J. Christopher Flowers is putting his record-snatching Harkness Mansion back on the market.Edward Lee Cave and Hall Willkie on their gentlemen's agreement.Aby Rosen talks about turning down two $60 million buyers for his East Side mansion.Interior designer Jamie ...