David Rowland and his son Jonathan, via their investment company Blackfish Capital, acquired and recapitalized the former and now manage the assets, on behalf of the interbank creditors, of the latter.
[21] According to the Panama Papers leak, Rowland was a shareholder in "dozens of offshore companies" in the British Virgin Islands.
[24] In 2013, Rowland-owned Fordham Sports Management Ltd. acquired Manchester City's top players' image rights.
[7] Rowland had lived in Guernsey, but returned to full United Kingdom residency in order to make donations to the Conservatives.
[28] Rowland moved from London to Paris at the age of 24, then Monte Carlo, Monaco, and finally Guernsey, where he has lived since at least 2005.
[4][7] He lives at Havilland Hall, the largest privately owned estate on the island, where in 2005, Prince Andrew unveiled a life-size bronze statue of Rowland smoking a cigar in a "vaguely Churchillian pose".