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+44 (0)20 7539 7000Fergus Hall

Investment Director , UK Buyouts

Fergus joined European Capital as a founding member in 2005 from Barclay's Private Equity, where he had been on long-term secondment. Prior to Barclays, Fergus worked as a corporate financier for 10 years, predominantly at CSFB’s Retail & Consumer Group as a Vice President, and at UBS Warburg. His corporate finance clients included Prada, Arcadia, Kingfisher, Saatchi & Saatchi, and The Berkeley Group.

Fergus led the £80m MBO of Farrow & Ball in 2006, and the £225m MBO of Hillarys Blinds in 2007, and sits on the board of both companies as a non-executive director. Farrow & Ball is a market leading international luxury paints business; Hillarys Blinds is the UK’s largest made to measure blinds business. He has worked on a wide range of other buy-outs, including the MBO of ladies fashion retailer Phase Eight in 2005, which was sold in 2007 achieving a 56% IRR. He also has wide experience of M&A and equity capital markets, and of the retail & consumer sectors.