JC Flowers & Co.
JC Flowers & Co. is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by J. Christopher Flowers, a former Goldman Sachs partner. The company focuses its investments on distressed situations, as well as cross-border consolidations.
J. Christopher Flowers attended Harvard University and graduated in 1979. He then worked for Goldman Sachs and made partner in 1988. He left Goldman Sachs in 1998 and with Ripplewood Investments bought Long Term Credit Bank of Japan in 2000. The bank was renamed to Shinsei Bank and the partners reaped $2.3 billion in the 2004 public offering. He currently is the managing director of JC Flowers & Co.
