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A business is plainly going through a rocky patch when the boss has to dust off his wallet to meet the payroll.

Private equity tycoon Guy Hands is putting 20 million pounds of his own money into his private equity fund Terra Firma, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

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Some 25,000 elderly and vulnerable care home residents, not to mention their families, will be hoping that Guy Hands gets it right this time.

Four Seasons's chair Geoff Westmore said the A 825 million buyout, which pushes former majority shareholder RBS into the passenger seat, was "a great result for all our stakeholders." But despite the name, care workers' union GMB warned Terra Firma's takeover had left Four Seasons's 20,000 residents and 30,000 employees on shaky ground.

Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd., the private-equity firm founded by Guy Hands , is close to an agreement to buy U.K. care homes operator Four Seasons Health Care Group Ltd., a person with knowledge of the talks said.