A consortium comprising Bain Capital and JC Flowers is vying with Centerbridge and Bayview Asset Management in a fight to buy a minority stake in mortgage lender Together, Sky News learns.
Two rival consortia are battling it out in a race to buy a big stake in Together Financial Services, one of Britain's biggest independent mortgage lenders.
Sky News has learnt that Bain Capital and JC Flowers have joined forces, and have hired bankers at Morgan Stanley to advise them on their interest in Together. Bain and JC Flowers are no strangers to each other, having jointly bought a minority stake in the Co-operative Bank. A separate consortium comprising Centerbridge Partners and Bayview Asset Management, a US-based investor in mortgages and consumer credit, is also bidding.The two remaining parties are expected to table final offers next month for a stake of up to 40% in Manchester-based Together, with the whole company likely to be valued in the region of £1.7bn.
The sale of a sizeable stake is expected to yield a windfall worth hundreds of millions of pounds for Together's founder, Henry Moser.
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