Antoine Gara is the US private equity and deals editor at the Financial Times. He covers buyout firms, the broader private capital industry and oversees a team responsible for the FT's US M&A coverage. In 2023, he was part of a team of FT reporters that were finalists for a Gerald Loeb award.
Previously, he was a senior editor at Forbes Magazine where he was a features and investigations writer covering finance and investing. He won a 2020 SABEW Best in Business award for his writing on Robinhood and spent the first part of his career at Lehman Brothers and Barclays.