BC Partners has launched into real estate and has hired a managing partner to lead its push into the asset class, PERE’s sister publication, Private Equity International, reported Monday.
BC Partners Real Estate will pursue a pan-European opportunistic investment strategy covering all real estate sectors, making direct and indirect private equity real estate investments as well as controlling and minority investments, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. The new real estate platform will sit within the firm’s existing structure.
Stéphane Theuriau joined the London-based firm on May 21, according to a Companies House filing. It is understood his first task will be to build out the team.
Theuriau previously served as co-manager and chairman at Paris-based real estate developer and fund manager Altarea Cogedim, according to a February statement from the firm announcing his departure. He left “to develop a new business by creating a European property investment fund,” the statement noted.
Theuriau spent nine years at Altarea Cogedim particularly focusing on office property, according to the statement. The firm raised €600 million for its property investment vehicle AltaFund in November 2011, according to its website.
The appointment marks BC Partners’ entry into real estate. The firm closed BC European Capital X, a 2016-vintage buyout vehicle, on its €7 billion target in January.
“There is a unique opportunity to leverage the firm’s proven network, investment excellence and infrastructure to develop a new leading real estate strategy,” Theuriau said in a statement obtained by PEI. “There is strong demand in the market for a synergistic, private equity approach to real estate investing and I look forward to working closely with the team to help us capitalise on this opportunity.”
The firm’s head of investor relations and fundraising veteran, Charlie Bott, will retire in September, as PEI reported in April. Senior partners Laurent de Rosière and Richard Kunzer are expected to co-head the IR team after his departure, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.
Head of investor relations management Laura Coquis is also understood to have left earlier this year.
If you do not receive this within five minutes, please try to sign in again. If the problem persists, please email: 
