BC Partners

We are excited to announce that BC Partners has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in Synthon, a leading international pharmaceutical company, to the Private Equity business at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Commenting on the news, Mark Hersee, Partner and Co-Head of Healthcare at BC Partners, said “Synthon is a fantastic business and it has been a pleasure to partner with Anish Mehta and the rest of the team since we first invested in 2019. During our ownership we have heavily invested in additional complex technologies, expanded manufacturing capabilities, and strengthened the team to enter new geographies, all building on the great work of the Founders. We see great potential for Synthon, and it is for that reason we are delighted to partner with the Goldman Sachs Alternatives team in continuing to grow and expand the business.” Congratulations to everyone involved. You can find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eVn_Nvzu You can also read about the announcement in the Financial Times, here: https://lnkd.in/ewTfxhZM

BC Partners' Fahim Ahmed recently sat down with Bloomberg's Swetha Gopinath to discuss BC's significant exit momentum in the last 18 months - including the recent IPO of publisher Springer Nature and the exits of GardaWorld, Forno d’Asolo, IMA, and Presidio - as well as delving into our long-standing commitment to the mid-market and our outlook for deals in 2025. Click here to read the full Q&A: https://lnkd.in/e_zdA_bS

We are delighted to share the annual BC Partners Sustainability Report for 2024. This year's report reflects on the importance of sustainability as a value creation tool, helping us to future-proof the companies we partner with. The report also details the significant work taking place across our portfolio in addressing some of today's major sustainability challenges. Thank you to Davies, Fedrigoni Group and Synthon for providing an insight into the important initiatives they have underway.  Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/eJbbNHHC

In a new series shining a light on BC Partners’ approach to operational excellence, we’re sitting down with members of our Portfolio Operations team to find out more about their backgrounds and specialisms, emerging themes in their practice areas and how they work across BC Partners’ portfolio to deliver hands-on support and value creation. In our first Q&A, we sit down with Lakshman Charanjiva, Head of Portfolio Operations at BC Partners. Lakshman reflects on his career journey, the evolution of the BC Portfolio Operations team, and the increasing importance of specialist expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence.  Click here to read more: https://lnkd.in/e_pr2a4z

Congratulations to BC Partners' Nikos Stathopoulos, who has been named in the Private Equity News 50 Most Influential in Private Equity 2024 list. You can read Nikos' full profile here: https://lnkd.in/en2Dprzu

The BC Partners team was pleased to take part in Spread a Smile’s Padel tournament last week, a great day and an important initiative that helps Spread-a-Smile to continue supporting seriously ill children and their families.   A big thanks to Spread a Smile for organising the event.   If you would like to make a donation to Spread a Smile, or find out more about the important work they do, you can click here: https://lnkd.in/eBQ_64Re

Yesterday, BC Partners' Global Head of Investor Relations Alexis Maskell discussed the evolving fundraising landscape in Asia as part of an insightful panel session at the PE Leaders' Summit at the #AVCJForum. Thank you to Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ) for hosting such a great event. Click below to stream the session! #AVCJForum #Fundraising #privateequity #PELeaders

Congratulations to Clare Kim, a Director in the BC Partners Credit team, who has been featured in the The Wall Street Journal's inaugural Women to Watch in Private Credit list! The WSJ's Women to Watch list highlights talented women across the industry. This year, the WSJ added a private credit category to the Women to Watch list and the first class of honorees reflects that growing breadth and depth of the private-credit asset class. Congratulations again to Clare and all of the honorees featured on the list! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/etAeBwKd

In the latest Credit update from BC Partners’, Mike Terwilliger, CFA and Ted Goldthorpe take a look back since our last update, and examine why they believe markets are at risk of overlooking certain fissures in the U.S. economy, as public investors embrace an unambiguously bullish outlook. Click here to read more: https://lnkd.in/eeMYjTqd

BC Partners Real Estate is pleased to announce that it is partnering with Renta Corporación and acquiring a stake in CABE, its business line focused on urban storage rental. Commenting on the news, Laurian Douin, Partner, Real Estate at BC Partners said: "We are delighted to announce the second investment in Spain by our inaugural European Real Estate Fund. In Renta Corporación we have found the ideal partner to further expand our portfolio and enter the highly compelling and rapidly growing Spanish self-storage market, a sector where we see huge potential and have built strong convictions. This collaboration aims to leverage our mutual strengths for platform growth and market entry, and we look forward to partnering with the Renta and Cabe teams to fuel our shared vision of the tremendous potential for a fully integrated owner-operator model in the urban self-storage sector in Spain" You can find out more here: https://lnkd.in/euEZ26fE