In July 1998, Doughty Hanson & Co purchased BTR Aerospace Group and renamed it Dunlop Standard Aerospace Group.

Doughty Hanson & Co is a British private equity fund manager focused on leveraged buyout and recapitalization transactions primarily of upper middle-market companies in Europe.

The firm which was founded in 1985 by Nigel Doughty and Richard Hanson is one of the oldest European buyout private equity firms.

Doughty Hanson traces its history back to 1985 when Nigel Doughty and Richard ( Dick ) Hanson started working together on European buyout investments within Standard Chartered Bank as founding members of its management buyout unit.

Doughty Hanson was established as an independent firm in 1995.

Doughty Hanson ’ s three product areas operate as separate fund families:

* Private Equity – Doughty Hanson ’ s buyout team focuses on majority ownership and control of market-leading businesses at the upper end of the European middle-market with enterprise values between € 250m and € 1bn.

* Real Estate – Doughty Hanson is an opportunistic investor and developer active in the office, retail and logistics sectors.

* Technology Ventures – The Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures team targets technology companies within three industry sectors: internet software, mobile communications and clean energy technology.

In June 2007 Doughty Hanson became one of the first private equity signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment ( UNPRI ), which provide a framework for incorporating environmental, social and governance ( ESG ) issues into investment decision-making and ownership practices.

A year later the firm became the first private equity manager in Europe to hire a dedicated Head of Sustainability to focus on the implementation, management and monitoring of ESG issues across the Doughty Hanson portfolio.

Since inception, Doughty Hanson has raised over € 8 billion across its five private equity funds.

The following is a summary of the investment funds raised to date by Doughty Hanson:

This came just two years after the firm had wrapped up a difficult fundraising for Doughty Hanson IV, in 2004 which had only generated € 1. 6 billion of investor commitments compared with the firm's original € 3. 0 billion target.

Doughty Hanson III, raised in 1997 had been a € 2. 7 billion investment fund.

Originally founded in 1899, RHM was acquired by Doughty Hanson in 2000 and listed on the London Stock Exchange in July 2005.

Priory was acquired by Doughty Hanson in 2002 and was sold in July 2005 in a transaction valued at £ 875m.

Saft was acquired by Doughty Hanson in 2004 and the company was listed on Euronext, Paris, in June 2005.

Moeller was acquired by Doughty Hanson in 2005 and sold in April 2008 in a transaction valued at € 1. 65 billion.

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The Dickens Museum is in Doughty Street.

* Ronkonkoma is referenced in two songs by singer / songwriter Mike Doughty: " Busting Up a Starbucks " and " Like a Luminous Girl.

* Ronkonkoma is referenced in two songs by singer / songwriter Mike Doughty, " Busting Up a Starbucks " and " Like a Luminous Girl ", and the song " 5 Alive " by Self on their album Gizmodgery.

As of May 2011, it is represented by Paul Doughty and Sian Wiseman of the local Conservative Party

Redwood is also a regular contributor to The Times newspaper and contributes to Freedom Today, the journal of the Freedom Association, and The Business and appeared on 18 Doughty Street Talk TV in December 2006.

* 1984: Sybase ( initially called Systemware ) is founded by Mark Hoffman, Bob Epstein, Jane Doughty and Tom Haggin out of Epstein's home in California.

Crush is a 2001 film written and directed by John McKay and starring Andie MacDowell, Imelda Staunton, Anna Chancellor, Kenny Doughty, and Bill Paterson.

Susan Kathleen Doughty, known as Sue Doughty, ( born Susan Kathleen Powell 13 April 1948 ) is a politician in the United Kingdom.

Doughty is a Quaker and upon her departure in 2005, left Parliament without any Quaker MPs for the first time in 150 years.

The channel is owned by Tullamore Beta Ltd., a subsidiary of Doughty Hanson & Co.

Mike Doughty ( ; born June 10, 1970 ) is an American indie and alternative rock singer-songwriter and author.

The chorus of the song "$ 300 " is a sample of a Chris Rock joke ; singer Mike Doughty heard the joke which is backmasked on Rock's Roll With the New.

Among authors who have praised the book are the British novelist Henry Green, whose essay on Doughty, " Apologia ," is reprinted in his collection Surviving.

* 1904 – 1935 Sir Arthur George Doughty ( A statue of Doughty is located on the north side of the Library and Archives building.

He was a friend of Charles Dickens, and in the 1850s, Yates lived at No. 43 Doughty Street, London, close to Dickens's former home at No. 48, which is now the Charles Dickens Museum.

He was born at 52 Doughty Street, London, 29 April 1816, and after his earlier education was articled, on 24 April 1832, to his uncle, Mr. Charles Sabine of Oswestry, for the term of five years, and passed the Incorporated Law Society's examination in November 1838, but there is no record of his ever having become a solicitor ; for the natural bent of his genius impelled him, like Dickens and Disraeli, to lighter studies, and he forsook law for literature.

The 1996 song " Lazybones " by Soul Coughing ( with lead singer Mike Doughty ) refers to " Cameraman sways to remember how the eye dances, drunkenness is a hand-held scrambling down Delancey, I come stumbling ".

Plaque at 52 Doughty Street, London

The offices of the EES are located at 3 Doughty Mews, London, while a secondary office operates in Cairo.

* R. B. Cunninghame Graham, ( 1925 ) Doughty Deeds, an account of the life of Robert Graham of Gartmore, poet and politician, 1735 – 1797 London: William Heinemann Ltd.

Dickens ' London and in particular 48 Doughty street where Dickens lived from 1837 – 39, reaped many of his leisure hours and he could quote at random from Dickens ' works with fluent ease.

The Charles Dickens Museum is at 48 Doughty Street in Holborn, London Borough of Camden, England.

Plaque at 52 Doughty Street, London

After graduating from Oxford, in 1921, Winifred and Vera moved to London hoping to establish themselves as writers ( the blue plaque at No. 52 Doughty Street refers ).

Born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, the son of William Doughty, Doughty was educated at the public schools in Maidenhead, at Lord Eldon School in London, and at New Inn Hall, Oxon.