BC Partners

(15 August 2013) Springer is now owned by BC Partners. Competition authorities in the US and in Europe have approved the transaction and all other preconditions have been met. Read the announcement here.

(Berlin, 19 June 2013)  EQT Partners AB (EQT) and GIC Special Investments Pte Ltd (GIC) have agreed to sell their majority stake in Springer Science+Business Media (Springer), a leading global scientific, technical and medical (STM) publisher, to the private equity firm BC Partners Limited (BC Partners). The plans for an initial public offering have been cancelled. Derk…