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letsdothis3 ago

The United Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_United_Group

United Group is an alternative telecom provider in the Balkan countries that operates in two main business segments: telecommunication platforms and media (content and advertising).

United Group began in 2000 as a small cable company and expanded over the years through the acquisition and the formation of a number of assets, such as SBB, Telemach Slovenia and Telemach Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] All companies formed together in 2012 to officially become United Group. Telemach Montenegro became a part of United Group as well in 2014. Telemach acquired Tušmobil on 1 April 2015.[2] This being a cable acquisition of mobile network makes it a unique case in the region, and the first step of United Group into providing all telecommunication services (fixed, mobile, television, and internet) in one household.

Dragan Šolak (Chairman of the Advisory Board); Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands; Owner: BC Partners

BC Partners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Partners

BC Partners is a private equity firm specialising in buyouts and acquisitions financing in Europe and the United States. The firm invests across all industries. BC Partners was founded in 1986 and is based in London with additional offices in New York City; Paris; Milan and Hamburg.

As one of the largest European private equity firms, BC Partners competes for buyouts and investment opportunities with other large cap private equity firms including Blackstone Group, KKR, CVC Capital Partners, Advent International and The Carlyle Group.

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 was formed by Barings to advise funds providing development capital, in particular for management buyouts. The principals of Baring Capital Investors completed a spinout of what would become BC Partners following the collapse of Barings in 1995.[8] Van der Wyck left the firm in 2001 and has held senior roles with firms including Coller Capital, Climate Change Capital and AlpInvest Partners. BC is currently investing from its 10th private equity fund.

BC Partners was until recently majority shareholder of Intelsat, the global satellite services provider valued at $16.6 billion USD in its leveraged buyout in 2007—one of the largest private equity buyouts of all time led by a consortium of investors including BC Partners and Silver Lake Partners. In 2008, BC Partners replaced Intelsat's chairman with Raymond Svider, BC's New York-based co-chairman.[7] Sometime between 2008 and 2018 BC capital Partners sold all of Intelsat to the company.

Intelsat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat

Intelsat Corporation—formerly INTEL-SAT, INTELSAT, Intelsat—is a communications satellite services provider. Originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO, or INTELSAT), it was—from 1964 to 2001—an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast services.

John F. Kennedy instigated the creation of INTELSAT with his speech to the United Nations on the 25th of September 1961.[5] Less than a year later, John F. Kennedy signed the Communications Satellite Act of 1962. INTELSAT was originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO) and operated from 1964 to 2001 as an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast services. In 2001, the international satellite market was fully commercialized, and the US predominant role in INTELSAT was fully privatized after 2001 as Intelsat was formed up as a private Luxembourg corporation.

Intelsat was sold for U.S. $3.1bn in January 2005 to four private equity firms: Madison Dearborn Partners, Apax Partners, Permira and Apollo Global Management. The company acquired PanAmSat on 3 July 2006, and is now the world's largest provider of fixed satellite services, operating a fleet of 52 satellites in prime orbital locations.

Links with SES SA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES_S.A.

letsdothis3 ago

Otto van der Wyck https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Otto_van_der_Wyck

Otto van der Wyck "is Chairman of Climate Change Capital. Otto started his career with Royal Dutch Shell in marketing and management roles, and then joined Rothschild Intercontinental Bank where he became Head of Corporate Finance, Europe.

"In 1979, he joined Citicorp Investment Bank as Head of Corporate Finance for EMEA and then became the founder and chairman of Citicorp Venture Capital (CVC).

"In 1986 he founded BC Partners and ran it as chief executive for 15 years building it into one of the most successful private equity firms in Europe with offices in London, Milan, Hamburg, Paris and New York.

"Otto is a non-executive director and adviser to Coller Capital, the leading purchaser of secondary private equity portfolios and a non-executive director of the Government of Singapore Investment Company."