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, United Kingdom with additional offices in Paris, France; 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. In comparison to other large private equity practices, BC Partners is more efficiently staffed for the quantum of capital it manages. While investing in its $8.4 billion Fund VIII, the firm employs only ~50 investment professionals. Competitors such as The Carlyle Group (890 professionals), Bain Capital (700+ professionals), TPG Capital, Permira and CVC Capital Partners employ hundreds of professionals.
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.
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