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BC Partners Ltd

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    BC Partners in exclusive talks to invest in EuroLeague basketball competition

    Private equity firm edges out rivals including General Atlantic and Saudi Arabia’s SURJ

  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    BC Partners buys a stake in sports agency GSE Worldwide

    Private investment firm is the latest to seek greater exposure to the talent market

    Sloane Stephens playing tennis
  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    Private equity
    BC Partners sells IT group Presidio in sign of thaw for private equity deals

    CD&R purchase comes after period of slowdown for debt-reliant industry as interest rates have risen

  • Saturday, 3 September, 2022
    UK banks
    Shawbrook’s £2bn sale shelved over inflation fears and weak markets

    Private equity owners BC Partners and Pollen Street freeze plans to offload UK small business lender

    A screengrab of the Shawbrook bank website layered over a colourful background
  • Thursday, 10 June, 2021
    Due Diligence
    BC Partners strikes a $7bn deal with . . . itself Premium content

    Plus, European banks band together to take on US payments groups and engine troubles at Lordstown Motors

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Private equity
    Red-hot markets allow PE groups to load up targets with extra debt

    Private equity buyers take advantage of low yields to pile companies up with borrowings

  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Private equity and hedge funds: an especially wild year in review Premium content

    Needless to say, it’s been a mad year in the realm of alternative investments

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    BC Partners seeks to sell Springer Nature stake to itself

    Private equity transaction could value the academic publisher at about €6bn

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    PetSmart Inc
    PetSmart scraps debt deal after investor push back

    Pet supply chain hoped to borrow $4.7bn to end saga between private equity owner and lenders

  • Saturday, 17 October, 2020
    G4S PLC
    Advisers to G4S bidder GardaWorld in line for £312m payday

    Canadian security group releases offer document on £3bn hostile takeover bid for UK rival

  • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
    G4S PLC
    GardaWorld steps up campaign against G4S in takeover battle

    Canadian security group meets investors in effort to force rival to accept 190p a share

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    News in-depthGardaWorld
    Stephan Crétier: the security boss with his eyes on the G4S prize

    Man behind hostile bid for world’s biggest security group built rival GardaWorld from scratch starting with C$25,000 in 1995

  • Monday, 14 September, 2020
    G4S PLC
    G4S faces £3bn hostile takeover bid from private equity-backed group

    UK security company has ‘dismissed or ignored’ 3 approaches in 3 months, says BC Partners

    A G4S security van parked outside a bank in Loughborough. G4S is one of the UK’s biggest outsourcing companies, with about 500,000 staff and global revenues of about £3.5bn
  • Wednesday, 29 July, 2020
    BC Partners buys stake in €3bn Italian machinery maker

    Private equity group strikes its first major European deal since pandemic began

    BC Partners says IMA is an attractive target because it is ‘exposed to resilient end markets’ such as coffee, tea, food and medication
  • Wednesday, 29 April, 2020
    Maike Currie
    Five ways to protect your post-pandemic pension pot

    How will your retirement finances change BC and AC — before and after coronavirus?

  • Friday, 27 December, 2019
    Metro Bank
    Metro Bank suitors deterred by costly branch network

    Several private equity groups have resisted making bids despite 90% share price fall

    A branch of Metro Bank, High Holborn, London.
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2019
    Bulgarian Telecommunications Company PLC
    United to buy Bulgarian telecoms group Vivacom for €1.2bn

    Acquisition is latest in regional consolidation push by BC Partners-backed cable company

  • Sunday, 29 September, 2019
    Bulgarian Telecommunications Company PLC
    Bulgarian telecoms group Vivacom eyed in buyout battle

    Serbian company backed by BC and KKR vies with Providence to buy former monopoly

    Spas Roussev, a London-based Bulgarian businessman, along with the London arm of Russian bank VTB, are selling Vivacom
  • Monday, 12 August, 2019
    Private equity
    BC Partners buys 50% stake in Advanced from Vista Equity

    £2bn deal comes at a time of growing interest among buyout funds for software companies

    Robert Smith, billionaire and chairman and chief executive officer of Vista Equity Partners LLC, poses for a photograph following a Bloomberg Television interview at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. World leaders, influential executives, bankers and policy makers attend the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos from Jan. 17 - 20. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2019
    Due Diligence
    Blackstone and BC Partners: private equity squared Premium content

    Welcome to Due Diligence, the FT’s daily deals briefing

  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2019
    Private equity
    Blackstone takes stake in smaller rival BC Partners

    Deal is latest example of private equity groups buying minority stakes in each other

  • Friday, 14 June, 2019
    LexIPOs
    Chewy/BC Partners: golden retriever Premium content

    A absurd IPO market can solve a private equity/hedge fund fight

    Ellie the Havanese dog is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) ahead of the IPO for Chewy Inc. in New York City, U.S., June 14, 2019. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
  • Friday, 7 June, 2019
    Private equity
    Private equity group acquires politically-connected Teneo

    CVC pays $350m for majority stake in advisory group founded by US businessman Doug Band

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2019
    Bayer AG
    Private equity firms circle Bayer’s animal medicine unit

    BC Partners among those exploring bid for division that could fetch up to €8bn

    The division sells veterinary treatments for both pets and livestock
  • Sunday, 12 May, 2019
    Private equity
    Software and data group Ion buys Acuris in £1.35bn deal

    Private equity group BC Partners agrees to sell the owner of financial information service Mergermarket

    KDA89X Acuris advert on London underground tube network
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