BC Partners

{{Short description|Private equity firm}}

{{Infobox company

| logo = BC Partners logo.svg

| name = BC Partners LLP

| predecessor = Baring Capital Investors

| type = Private

| founder = Otto van der Wyck

| key_people = Raymond Svider{{cite web |title=BC Partners-Raymond Svider |url=https://www.bcpartners.com/team/our-team/raymond-svider |access-date=20 May 2020}}
Nikos Stathopoulos{{cite web |title=BC Partners-Nikos Stathopoulos |url=https://www.bcpartners.com/team/our-team/nikos-stathopoulos |access-date=20 May 2020}}
Jean-Baptiste Wautier{{cite web |title=BC-Partners-Jean-Baptiste Wautier |url=https://www.bcpartners.com/team/our-team/jean-baptiste-wautier |access-date=20 May 2020}}

| foundation = {{start date and age|1986}}

| location = London (Global)

| industry = Private equity

| products = Private Equity, Credit, Real Estate

| aum = $40+ billion{{cite web |title=Appgate, a Leading Cybersecurity Company, to Merge With Public Company Newtown Lane Marketing |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210209005290/en/Appgate-a-Leading-Cybersecurity-Company-to-Merge-With-Public-Company-Newtown-Lane-Marketing |website=Business Wire |access-date=9 Feb 2021 |date=9 Feb 2021}}

| num_employees = ~190

| homepage = {{URL|https://www.bcpartners.com}}

}}

BC Partners LLP is a British{{cite web |title=BC partners: Legal |url=https://www.bcpartners.com/legal |access-date=13 August 2022}} international investment firm with over $40 billion of assets under management across private equity, credit and real estate in Europe and North America. Its global headquarters are in London. The firm invests across all industries. BC Partners was founded in 1986 and has offices in New York, Paris and Hamburg.{{cite web|url=https://www.bcpartners.com/contact |publisher=BC Partners |title=Contact Us }} Since inception, BC Partners has completed 113 private equity investments in companies with a total enterprise value of €145 billion.{{cite web |title=Portfolio |url=https://www.bcpartners.com/private-equity-strategy/portfolio |website=BC Partners |access-date=20 May 2020 |date=30 June 2019}}

As one of the largest European private equity firms, BC Partners competes for buyouts and investment opportunities with other large cap private equity firms including Blackstone Group, KKR, CVC Capital Partners, Advent International and The Carlyle Group.{{cite web|title=Blackstone, BC Partners, CVC Mull Bids for Kabel Deutschland |url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-27/blackstone-bc-partners-cvc-mull-bids-for-kabel-deutschland.html |access-date=2010-01-27 }}{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite web|url=http://www.pehub.com/187232/reuters-cvc-capital-bc-partners-ready-bid-elior/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411160625/http://www.pehub.com/187232/reuters-cvc-capital-bc-partners-ready-bid-elior/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-04-11|title=PE HUB » Reuters – CVC Capital, BC Partners Ready Bid for Elior|work=PE HUB|date=2013-02-20}} 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.{{cite web |title=BC Partners ramping up for next fundraising |url=http://www.evcj.com/story.asp?storycode=318289 |publisher= Buyouts Insider / Argosy Group LLC }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The firm's most recent fund, BC Partners X, was one of the largest buyout funds raised in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/the-6-biggest-buyout-funds-of-2018-so-far|title=The 6 biggest buyout funds of 2018 (so far)|first=Kevin|last=Dowd |work=Pitchbook }}

BC Partners was until recently majority shareholder of Intelsat, the global satellite services provider valued at US$16.6 billion in its leveraged buyout in 2007—one of the largest private equity buyouts of all time led by a consortium of investors including BC Partners and Silver Lake Partners. In 2008, BC Partners replaced Intelsat's chairman with Raymond Svider, BC's New York–based co-chairman.{{cite web | title =Intelsat Chairman Resigns; Succeeded By BC Partners Exec | work =BN | url =http://nab.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=357489 | access-date=2008-05-03 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110708094959/http://nab.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=357489 | archive-date =2011-07-08 | url-status =usurped }} Sometime between 2008 and 2018, BC Partners sold all of Intelsat to the company.

History

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 Partners was formed by Barings to advise funds providing development capital, in particular for management buyouts. John Burgess joined him from Candover, the US and UK buyout house, a month after.{{Cite web|title=Deploying Europe's biggest buyout fund|url=https://www.buyoutsinsider.com/deploying-europes-biggest-buyout-fund-2/|last=Meikle|first=Brad|date=2000-10-01|website=Buyouts|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-31}} The principals of Baring Capital Investors completed a spinout of what would become BC Partners following the collapse of Barings in 1995.{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Elliot |title=The Barings collapse 25 years on: What the industry learned after one man broke a bank |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/26/barings-collapse-25-years-on-what-the-industry-learned-after-one-man-broke-a-bank.html |website=CNBC |accessdate=16 June 2020 |date=26 February 2020}} Van der Wyck left the firm in 2001, and has held senior roles with firms including Coller Capital, Climate Change Capital and AlpInvest Partners.

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Raised / Announced FundVintage YearFund Size (USD)
BC Partners X2017€7.0 billion{{cite web |title=BC Partners Closes BC European Capital X at €7 Billion Target |url=https://www.legal-monitor.com/news/bc-partners-closes-bc-european-capital-x-%E2%82%AC7-billion-target |website=LegalMonitor |accessdate=16 June 2020 |date=22 January 2018}}
BC Partners IX2011€6.7 billion{{cite web|url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/bc-partners-raises-8-6-billion-fund|title=BC Partners Raises $8.6 Billion Fund|first=Mark|last=Scott |work=The New York Times |date=21 February 2012 }}
BC Partners VIII2005€5.9 billion {{cite web |title=UPDATE 1-BC Partners writes fund back up to par-source|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/bcpartners-valuation/update-1-bc-partners-writes-fund-back-up-to-par-source-idUSLR16589420090727|website=Reuters |accessdate=25 June 2020 |date=27 July 2009}}
BC Partners VII2000€4.3 billion{{cite web |title=BC Partners closes record fund|url=https://www.privateequityinternational.com/bc-partners-closes-record-fund/ |publisher=PEI |accessdate=25 June 2020 |date=21 July 2005}}
BC Partners VI1998€1.1 billion
BC Partners V1994€450 million

Significant transactions

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File:Migros türk.jpg retail stores. The company is Turkey's leading supermarket chain.]]

{{asof|2019|12|31|post=,|df=US}} BC Partners portfolio includes 114 companies with aggregate sales revenue of €145 billion.{{Cite web|title=BC Partners {{!}} Private Equity Investments|url=https://www.bcpartners.com/private-equity-strategy/portfolio|access-date=2020-06-21|website=BC Partners|language=en}} BC Partners can commit over $2.75 billion (€2.0 billion) of equity to any single transaction. The firm's most successful and profitable realized investments include General Healthcare (leading acute care hospital provider and independent provider of psychiatric care), C&C Group plc (leading seller of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages), Galbani (market-leading cheese company) and Phones 4u (leading mobile phone provider in the UK - until its bankruptcy in September 2014).

In June 2013, BC Partners agreed to buy German publisher Springer Science+Business Media for about 3.3 billion euros.{{cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-springerscience-sale-idUSBRE95G17120130619| title=BC Partners to buy Springer Science for 3.3 billion euros|author1=Alexander Huebner |author2=Claire Ruckin |author3=Ludwig Burger |author4=Christoph Steitz | publisher=Reuters | date=19 June 2013}}

BC Partners revealed in January 2015 that it would sell its 40.25 percent stake in its supermarket chain Migros Türk to the Turkish conglomerate Anadolu Endustri Holding AS for around $2.74 billion.[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bcpartners-migros-anadolu-idUSKBN0KA19R20150101 BC Partners to sell half of its stake in Migros to Turkey's Anadolu]. Reuters, 31 December 2014

In June 2019 Chewy, which was acquired by BC Partners in 2017, and is the online pet retailer division of PetSmart, announced its IPO on the NYSE when it was valued at $8.8 billion.{{Cite web|last1=Hirsch|first1=Lauren|last2=Lucas|first2=Amelia|date=2019-06-14|title=Chewy, PetSmart's online business, soars as much 86% after IPO pricing at $22 per share|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/14/chewycom-petsmarts-online-business-opens-at-36-after-pricing-at-22-per-share.html|access-date=2020-06-30|website=CNBC|language=en}}

In 2019, BC Partners announced their backing for the acquisition{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/a275e632-dbc1-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17|title=Bulgarian telecoms group Vivacom eyed in buyout battle|date=29 September 2019|website=Financial Times|accessdate=2019-10-27}} (via the United Group) of Vivacom, the largest Bulgarian telecom. The acquisition became an issue of the media and legal dispute with the company's previous owner, Empreno Ventures, which asked BC Partners{{Cite news|date=2019-10-25|title=Empreno Has Urged United Group and BC Partners of the Risks Pursuing Acquisition of Vivacom Pending Final Judicial Determination|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2019-10-25/empreno-has-urged-united-group-and-bc-partners-of-the-risks-pursuing-acquisition-of-vivacom-pending-final-judicial-determination|access-date=2019-10-27|newspaper=Bloomberg.com}} to wait until judicial resolution.

On November 7, BC Partners was added to a lawsuit by Empreno seeking to ban the sale of Vivacom.{{Cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-united-group-buy-bulgarias-170942151.html|title=UPDATE 1-United Group to buy Bulgaria's Vivacom in $1.3 bln deal|website=finance.yahoo.com|date=7 November 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-29}}

In early 2021, the firm entered into talks with Inter Milan owner Suning about potentially buying the football club.{{Cite web|date=2021-02-18|title=Suning In Talks With BC Partners Over Inter Sale & Bain Capital For Loan, Italian Media Explain|url=https://sempreinter.com/2021/02/18/suning-in-talks-with-both-bc-partners-bain-capital-for-different-reasons-italian-media-claim/|access-date=2021-02-28|website=SempreInter.com|language=en-US}}

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YearCompany NameDescription of BC Partners Transaction{{Cite web|url=http://www.bcpartners.com/portfolio/currinv|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218210029/http://www.bcpartners.com/portfolio/currinv|url-status=dead|title=BC Partners, Current Investments|archivedate=February 18, 2013}}
2022

|Fedrigoni

|US$3.0 billion for 50% stake {{cite news |date=2022-07-26 |title=BC Partners takes joint control of Italy's Fedrigoni in $3 billion deal |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/bc-partners-invests-bain-owned-fedrigoni-3-bln-deal-2022-07-26/}}

2022

|Havea Group

|US$1.1 billion (approx.){{Cite news |last=Farr |first=Emma-Victoria |date=2022-06-23 |title=BC Partners acquires Havea for $1.16 bln -source |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/bc-partners-acquires-havea-116-bln-source-2022-06-23/ |access-date=2022-07-18}}

2018

|GFL Environmental

|CAD$5.1 billion for majority stake in waste services company GFL Environmental.{{cite news |title=GFL Environmental Inc. announces $5.125 Billion recapitalization with new investors led by BC Partners and their partner OTPP |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gfl-environmental-inc-announces-5-125-billion-recapitalization-with-new-investors-led-by-bc-partners-and-their-partner-otpp-300634207.html|language=en}}

2018

|United Group

|€2.6 billion for majority stake in telecom provider United Group.{{cite news |title=KKR prodao većinski udeo Junajted grupe, SBB ima novog suvlasnika |url=https://www.b92.net/biz/vesti/srbija.php?yyyy=2018&mm=09&dd=27&nav_id=1448907 |accessdate=3 October 2018 |work=b92.net |agency=Beta |date=27 September 2018 |language=sr}}

2018

|Navex Global

|Acquisition of ethics and compliance software and services company NAVEX Global from Vista Equity Partners{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/bc-partners-to-acquire-compliance-software-firm-navex-global-1531845193|title=BC Partners to Acquire Compliance-Software Firm Navex Global|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=2018-07-17|access-date=2019-07-03|first1=Colin|last1=Kellaher}}

2017

|Chewy

|$3.4 billion for the e-commerce company specializing in pet products — largest e-commerce acquisition in history {{Cite news |first=Jason |last=Del Rey |date=10 July 2017 |title=PetSmart is acquiring Chewy.com for $3.35 billion in the largest e-commerce acquisition ever|url=https://www.vox.com/2017/4/18/15339208/petsmart-chewy-acquisition-price-3-35-billion |publisher=Vox|access-date=2019-07-03 }}

2016

|CenturyLink

|$2.3 billion acquisition of data center operations.{{Cite news|url=http://seekingalpha.com/news/3221319-centurylink-deal-sell-data-centers-near-2_3b|title=CenturyLink has deal to sell data centers for near $2.3B|last=Aycock|first=Jason|date=2016-11-04|newspaper=Seeking Alpha|language=en-US|access-date=2016-12-19}}

2016

|Keter

|€1.4 billion for the acquisition of global manufacturer of quality resin consumer products{{Cite news|date=2016-07-28|title=BC Partners signs deal to buy Keter Plastic|url=https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-bc-partners-signs-deal-to-buy-keter-plastic-1001142672|access-date=2020-07-20|newspaper=Globes|language=he}}

2016

|Elysium Healthcare

|£360 million for the acquisition of a portfolio of mental health hospitals from Partnerships in Care and the Priory Group{{Cite web|date=2016-07-28|title=Elysium|url=https://www.jamiesoncf.com/deals/elysium/|access-date=2021-05-20}}

2014

|Cartrawler

|Car rental technology platform bought from ECI Partners{{Cite news |last=Ruckin |first=Claire |date=March 24, 2014 |title=RLPC-BC Partners to buy majority stake in CarTrawler |language=en-GB |work=Reuters |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/cartrawler-bcpartners-idUKL5N0ML2ET20140324 |url-status=dead |access-date=2017-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831221733/http://uk.reuters.com/article/cartrawler-bcpartners-idUKL5N0ML2ET20140324 |archive-date=August 31, 2017}}

2014PetSmart$8.7 billion acquisition of pet services and products vendor{{cite press release | publisher=Reuters| date=14 December 2014| title=BC Partners to acquire PetSmart for $8.7 billion | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-petsmart-m-a-bcpartners-idUSKBN0JS0UP20141214}}
2013AcurisAcquisition of MergerMarket, now called Acuris, news service from Pearson plc{{Cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/396ca876-58e9-11e3-a7cb-00144feabdc0|title=Pearson agrees to sell Mergermarket unit to BC Partners|first1=Anne-Sylvaine|last1=Chassany|first2=Henry|last2=Mance|newspaper=Financial Times |date=November 29, 2013}}
2012Sullair Milton Roy Sundyne$3.4 billion LBO of industrial business engaged in the design, manufacture and supply of specialist pumps and compressors{{cite web|url=http://www.pehub.com/177522/bc-partners-carlyle-complete-hamilton-sundstrand-deal/|title=PE HUB » BC Partners, Carlyle Complete Hamilton Sundstrand Deal|work=PE HUB|date=2012-12-14}}
2012Suddenlink$6.5 billion LBO of 7th largest cable communications system operator in the US;{{cite news |url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/bc-partners-led-group-to-buy-u-s-cable-operator-for-1-9-billion|title=Group Led by BC Partners to Buy U.S. Cable Operator for $6.6 Billion|first=Mark|last=Scott |work=The New York Times|date=19 July 2012 }} sale of 70% interest in Suddenlink held by BC and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for $9.1 Bn announced in May 2015Scott, Mark, and Emily Steel, [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/business/dealbook/altice-suddenlink-communications.html "Altice's Deal to Buy Suddenlink May Be Prelude to Pursuit of Time Warner Cable"], New York Times, May 20, 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
2011Phones 4uBought for £700 million; entered into administration on 15 September 2014{{cite web|url=http://news.sky.com/story/1335864/retailer-phones-4u-forced-into-administration|title=Retailer Phones 4u 'Forced Into Administration'|work=Sky News}}{{cite web|url=https://www.evernote.com/shard/s34/sh/884af390-4a7c-42b6-bc36-00ba6fbae518/a5808f5440f8fa66d13632727856ecbb|title=Phones4U closure|work=Evernote}}
2011Com HemLargest LBO in Europe in 2011{{Cite news |date=2011-07-21 |title=Exclusive: BC Partners to buy Com Hem in $2.6 billion deal |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-comhem-bcpartners-idINTRE76K1YV20110721 |access-date=2023-10-30}}
2010MultiPlan$3.1 billion LBO of provider of health care cost management services
2009Office Depotprovider of office products and services
2008

|SGB-SMIT Group

|Manufacturer of transformers (sold in 2017)

2008Migros TürkTurkey's leading supermarket chain
2008Intelsat$16.6 billion acquisition of fixed satellite service provider
2007FoxtonsUK estate agency, bought at the top of the property market in May 2007 for £370 million{{cite news|last=Blackhurst|first=Chris|title=What Foxtons founder Jon Hunt did next...|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/business/what-foxtons-founder-jon-hunt-did-next-6513987.html|newspaper=Evening Standard|date=15 September 2012|quote=Hunt...sold the estate agencies chain for £370 million just weeks before the credit crunch hit and the property market slumped...His timing was brilliant.}} In December 2009, BC Partners lost control of Foxtons, less than three years after buying it, after creditors reorganized the real estate broker's debt.

{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/privateequity/6950363/Foxtons-taken-over-by-banks.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Foxtons taken over by banks | date=2010-01-08|accessdate=14 June 2015}}

2006BrenntagSecond largest LBO in Germany to date
2006Regency EntertainmentLargest public-to-private LBO in Greece to date
2005Amadeus IT GroupLargest LBO in Spain to date
2004PicardLargest LBO in France that year
2003SEAT PGLargest LBO in Europe at the time
2002HirslandenLargest LBO in Switzerland that year
2001SanitecLargest public to private LBO in Finland to date
2000Mark IVLargest LBO in the US by a European sponsor at the time

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