BC Partners

An international private equity group which has been operating primarily in Europe since 1986, and expanded into North America in 2008. It manages over US$ 13 billion of equity capital on behalf of institutional investors worldwide, including public and private pension funds, insurance companies, endowments and universities, and sovereign wealth funds. It invests in control buyout transactions in a variety of industries and its portfolio companies currently include Intelsat, the largest satellite operator worldwide, Brenntag, a chemical distributor, Amadeus, the largest airline reservation and IT services company in the world, and Migros, the largest food retailer in Turkey.