BC Partners

We are proud to have supported this incredible initiative through the BC Partners Foundation! Congratulations to City Pay it Forward and City AM on delivering such a tangible outcome and helping to improve financial literacy education. Find out more about City Pay it Forward at www.citypayitforward.com or on the campaign at www.yearsixdividend.com.

Congratulations to BC Partners' portfolio company Havea, which is now B Corp™ certified!

We are proud to share that BC Partners has been named winner of the 'Benelux Deal of the Year’ award at Real Deals’ Private Equity Awards 2026, in recognition of our partnership with Synthon.   This award is a testament to BC Partners’ approach to building better businesses within sub-sectors we know incredibly well. Real Deals pointed to Synthon’s strong organic growth, capex-led value creation, and strategic execution - including margin improvement, commercial enhancements, and successful international expansion under BC Partners’ ownership.   Following the sale of our majority stake in Synthon in December 2024, BC Partners retained a minority stake in the business, reflecting our continued conviction in Synthon’s growth and performance.   Congratulations to both the BC Partners and Synthon teams, and everyone involved! You can find out more about our investment in Synthon here: https://lnkd.in/eP3da3Kh

IGS GeboJagema is the leading independent healthcare manufacturer in the tooling market for medical devices — and one of BC Partners' most recent partnerships. Our investment builds on our deep expertise backing resilient, high-growth businesses across pharma and specialised manufacturing, with companies including IMA, Synthon, and Pharmathen. From this experience  — we bring a repeatable playbook to drive innovation, internationalisation, and operational scale. With IGS, we've hit the ground running. We've already signed two strategic acquisitions to expand the business's capabilities, and invested in systems and CapEx to fuel the next phase of growth. Hear more about our partnership with IGS from BC Partners' Matthew Evans:

March was another busy month for BC Partners, see the highlights below: 🔵 Our Chairman, Europe Nikos Stathopoulos, sat down with Private Equity International to discuss how Europe is offering a safe haven for investors amidst geopolitical volatility. Read the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/exxJ-QwA 🔵 Partner Stefano Ferraresi featured in Real Deals’ Italy regional market report, where he outlined BC Partners’ proven expertise in Italy’s food and industrials markets, and pointed to the complexities and opportunities of partnering with family-owned businesses. Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/eDPwWDbA 🔵 Stefano also sat down with Real Deals to discuss BC Partners’ defensive growth strategy in the context of an increasingly uncertain environment. Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/egqwTij9 🔵 Meanwhile, Partner & Head of Credit, Ted Goldthorpe joined CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss the opportunities and challenges within the credit market today. Watch the interview here: https://lnkd.in/eXb8rNfh 🔵Our global head of investor relations, Alexis Maskell spoke to Private Equity News about the recent software sell-off. Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/ed3rxnv7 🔵 BC Partners successfully completed the acquisition of Fortidia, building on our track record of backing exceptional entrepreneurs in Italy. You can find out more about Fortidia and BC Partners' investment thesis here: https://lnkd.in/emY7XdrA Across our portfolio: 🔵Biogaran welcomed Erick Roche as Chief Executive Officer. Erick Roche has deep expertise in the sector and knows Biogaran incredibly well, having previously served as the company’s CEO for 15 years. 🔵Chewy ranked first amongst all retailers in Brand and Customer Experience in Forrester’s US Retail Total Experience Score Rankings.

Last year, BC Partners acquired a majority stake in premium animal health brand PetLabCo. With a strong track record in the animal health sector — including investments in PetSmart and Chewy — we are able to find innovative, fast-growing businesses shaping the future of pet care, which led us to PetLabCo. Now, we’re partnering with founder Christopher Masanto and the management team to help scale the business — combining their entrepreneurial vision with our experience building and growing category leaders. 🎥 Hear more from BC Partners’ Michael Chang in our latest video:

BC Partners' Stefano Ferraresi recently sat down with Real Deals to discuss the opportunities and complexities of the Italian market, where BC Partners has been investing for nearly forty years. As Real Deals explains: for sponsors who have learned to navigate family dynamics, governance expectations and regional nuance in Italy, the pipeline is deepening. For those who haven't, Italy remains exactly what it has always been: rewarding to those who understand it but largely closed to those who don't. Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/eSn7pA25  

BC Partners Credit’s Ivelin M. Dimitrov, CFA will be speaking on the ‘Value creation in specialty credit’ panel as part of the Private Debt Summit at SuperReturn North America today, discussing the emerging niche strategies in private credit, and how they can deliver differentiated returns. We hope to see you there!

This month, we closed the acquisition of a majority stake in Fortidia — a leading global platform providing shipping, fulfilment, and marketing services. Fortidia is a great demonstration of BC Partners’ sourcing engine in action. Our long-standing reputation for working successfully alongside entrepreneurs and families, our deep roots and credentials in Italy, and our track record of accelerating growth and transforming route-based service platforms — including GFL, GardaWorld, and GES — combined to make us the partner of choice for Fortidia. It is also a clear example of a “defensive growth” business: a resilient business model, a strong franchise network, and a compelling trajectory. Hear the full overview of our investment in Fortidia from BC Partners’ Paolo Notarnicola and Marco Castelli below.

This morning, Ted Goldthorpe, Head of BC Partners Credit, joined CNBC's Squawk Box to discuss the current state of the private credit industry - with Ted seeing a big disconnect between perception and reality. Watch the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/eXb8rNfh