Last modified on Tue 16 Feb 2021 00.10 EST
The owner of Harvester restaurants and Nicholsonâs pubs plans to raise £350m from a group of tycoons known as the âSandy Lane setâ after it came close to breaching the terms on its debts.
Mitchells & Butlers said it had agreed the equity raise with three investment holding companies as part of a £500m rescue package that also included a £150m three-year loan facility.
The rescue investors include the currency trader Joe Lewis, the Irish billionaires and horse racing tycoons John Magnier and JP McManus, and Derrick Smith, another businessman with horse racing interests. They are known collectively as the âSandy Lane setâ, after the glamorous Barbados hotel where they liked to gather.