Buyout kings control more than 14,000 American companies, including brands like Hilton Hotels and Burger King.
When his former boss, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest person, went to jail, Guriev led a buyout to control Menatep subsidiary PhosAgro.
Bain specialized in leveraged buyouts, buying control of companies with borrowed money, pledged against those companies' earnings or assets.
Owned by Terra Firma, the buyout firm controlled by Guernsey-based financier Guy Hands, Four Seasons is paying more than £50m a year in interest on debts of £500m.
The House of Fraser, a British department store chain that sells designer labels, rejected a $310 million cash bid from a buyout firm controlled by the retail entrepreneur Tom Hunter.
DUANE READE INC., New York, the drugstore chain, said it had agreed to accept 2.9percentt less cash from Oak Hill Capital Partners, Menlo Park, Calif., the buyout firm controlled by billionaire investor Robert M. Bass, to speed completion of Oak Hill's takeover.
Finally, in 2000 he agreed to sell MascoTech to a buyout fund controlled by David Stockman, a budget director in the Reagan Administration, for $2 billion.
Celestica was created in 1996 by the Onex Corporation, a leveraged-buyout specialist controlled by the financier Gerald Schwartz, from the manufacturing operations of IBM Canada.
During the government's prosecution of Khodorkovsky, who spent a decade in prison, Guriev led a management buyout to acquire control of Apatit.
Del Taco took on most of its $94 million in debt during the leveraged buyout, which gave control of the company to Wayne W. Armstrong, formerly the company's chief executive officer and president.
