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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home – BC Partners )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-27/blackstone-bc-partners-cvc-mull-bids-for-kabel-deutschland.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PE HUB » Reuters – CVC Capital, BC Partners Ready Bid for Elior )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =BN )〕 ==History== The firm, originally 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.〔(Partners share BC success ). eFinancialNews, November 9, 1998〕 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. In June 2013, BC Partners agreed to buy German publisher Springer Science+Business Media for about 3.3 billion euros. BC Partners revealed in January 2015 that it would sell its 40.25 percent stake in its supermarket chain Migros to the Turkish conglomerate Anadolu Endustri Holding AS for around $2.74 billion.〔(BC Partners to sell half of its stake in Migros to Turkey's Anadolu ). Reuters, 31 December 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BC Partners」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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