BC Partners
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| Private limited company | |
| Industry | Private equity |
| Predecessor | Baring Capital Investors |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Founder | Otto van der Wyck |
| Headquarters |
London (Global) New York City Milan Paris Hamburg |
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Key people
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Raymond Svider (New York) Francesco Loredan (Europe) |
| Products | Private equity funds, Leveraged buyout |
| Total assets | $17 billion USD |
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Number of employees
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~50 |
| Website | www.bcpartners.com |
BC Partners is a private equity firm specialising in buyouts and acquisitions financing in Europe and the United States. The firm invests across all industries. BC Partners was founded in 1986 and is based in London with additional offices in Paris; New York City; Milan and Hamburg.
The firm competes for buyouts and investment opportunities with other large cap private equity firms including Blackstone Group, CVC Capital Partners, Advent International and The Carlyle Group. The firm raised its eighth fund in 2005, which at the time made it the largest European buyout fund. Raised in less than five months, the fund was heavily oversubscribed. Investors in previous funds supplied 90% of the capital.
BC Partners is majority shareholder of Intelsat, the global satellite services provider valued at $16.6 billion USD in its leveraged buyout in 2007—one of the largest private equity buyouts of all time. In 2008, BC Partners replaced Intelsat's chairman with Raymond Svider, BC's New York-based co-chairman.
The firm, founded in 1986 as Baring Capital Investors Ltd. by Otto van der Wyck, who was also a co-founder of CVC Capital Partners. Originally, BC was formed by Barings to advise funds providing development capital, in particular for management buyouts. The principals of Baring Capital Investors completed a spinout of what would become BC Partners following the collapse of Barings in 1995. Van der Wyck left the firm in 2001 and has held senior roles with firms including Coller Capital climate change capital and AlpInvest Partners. BC is currently investing from its 9th private equity fund.
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