{"id":4713,"date":"2009-09-04T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T07:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2009-09-04T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T07:43:41","slug":"moulton-quits-as-alchemy-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/09\/04\/moulton-quits-as-alchemy-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Moulton quits as Alchemy head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/5b3b76c6-989a-11de-aa1b-00144feabdc0.html\">FT.com \/ Companies \/ UK companies - Moulton quits as Alchemy head<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jon Moulton, one of the founding fathers of the UK private equity industry, has resigned as head of Alchemy Partners.<\/p>\n<div id=\"floating-con\">\n<div class=\"nav-collection clearfix\">\n<h3 class=\"section\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;\">He announced his departure with <a class=\"bodystrong\" title=\"Moulton letter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/7b872f60-98ae-11de-aa1b-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/\">a vitriolic attack by letter <\/a>on the firm he founded in 1997. <\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;The state the firm is now in leads to the view that the best solution for investors and the partnership is an early orderly plan termination,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The plan&rsquo;s economics are no longer favourable.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, is private equity a bust concept?<\/p>\n<p>Some of us have always thought that.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe others are now realising it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT.com \/ Companies \/ UK companies &#8211; Moulton quits as Alchemy head. Jon Moulton, one of the founding fathers of the UK private equity industry,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/09\/04\/moulton-quits-as-alchemy-head\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-equity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}