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BC Partners

Logo: BC Partners, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

British private equity firm

BC Partners LLP is a British international investment firm with over $40 billion of assets under management across private equity, credit and real estate in Europe and North America. Its global headquarters are in London. The firm invests across all industries.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1986Founded1
  • Industryinvestment fund1
  • HeadquartersLondon1
  • Founded inLondon1
  • Websitewww.bcpartners.com
  • Legal formlimited liability partnership1

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BC Partners LLP is a British international investment firm with over $40 billion of assets under management across private equity, credit and real estate in Europe and North America. Its global headquarters are in London. The firm invests across all industries. BC Partners was founded in 1986 and has offices in New York, Paris and Hamburg. Since inception, BC Partners has completed 113 private equity investments in companies with a total enterprise value of €145 billion.2

Corporate structure

BC Partners is part of a group headed by Bc Partners Group Holdings. 82 entities, 23 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Major holders of BC Partners

  • Paolo Notarnicola Owns 5% to 10% of BC Partners, since 09/2026 (Form ADV)
  • BC Partners Holdings Ltd Owns 75% or more of Bc Partners, since 07/2016 (Form ADV)

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G; owners and owned firms from Form ADV, the registration investment advisers file with the SEC. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Investment adviser

BC Partners is registered with the SEC as an investment adviser. This is what it reports on Form ADV, the registration every adviser files and keeps current.

Who owns it

Owners of 5% or more as the firm lists them (Schedule A), and the owners of those owners up the chain (Schedule B).

  • BCPL HOLDINGS LIMITEDowns 75% or more, since 12/2021
  • Paolo Notarnicolaowns 5% to 10%, since 09/2026
  • BC PARTNERS GROUP HOLDINGSowns 75% or more of BCPL HOLDINGS, since 07/2018
  • BC PARTNERS HOLDINGS LIMITEDowns 75% or more of BC PARTNERS, since 07/2016

What it owns

What BC Partners reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

The firm, 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 Partners was formed by Barings to advise funds providing development capital, in particular for management buyouts. John Burgess joined him from Candover, the US and UK buyout house, a month after. The principals of Baring Capital Investors completed a spinout of what would become BC Partners following the collapse of Barings in 1995. Van der Wyck left the firm in 2001, and has held senior roles with firms including Coller Capital, Climate Change Capital and AlpInvest Partners.

From Wikipedia’s article on BC Partners, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • private equity

Listed on Wikidata.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. 2011Acquired Com Hem1

Timeline

  1. 1986Founded Founded in London1

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