BC Partners hires Adia's Heberling

Alessia Argentieri
21 April 2020

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BC Partners has hired Pascal Heberling as a partner in its London office.

He joins BC Partners from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adia), where he was a senior member of the private equity investment team for six years and became head of healthcare in 2017. He led a number of investments including Nestlé Skin Health in 2019 and Pharmaceutical Product Development in 2017.

Heberling began his career in mergers and acquisitions at Merrill Lynch. Subsequently, he spent 12 years at Cinven in London, including nine years as a partner. During this period, he invested across a diverse range of sectors, including TMT, business services and healthcare.

He worked on several investments, such as Spire Healthcare, the second largest provider of private healthcare in the UK, as well as Numericable, MediMedia and Springer Science.

"Pascal is a seasoned healthcare investor and will further enhance our coverage of Germany and France in particular," said Raymond Svider, chair of BC Partners, in a statement. "Healthcare is a sector where we see huge potential and we are therefore very excited to have someone of Pascal's calibre and experience to help us capitalise on these opportunities."

BC Partners is an international private equity firm with more than €23bn in assets under management in private equity, private credit and real estate. Since inception in 1986, it has completed 113 private equity investments in North American and European companies with a total enterprise value of €145bn.

The firm is currently investing its 10th private equity fund, BC European Capital X, a €7bn vehicle targeting companies with enterprise values of more than €300m. In addition, the GP has recently launched a new buyout vehicle, BC European Capital XI, with an €8.5bn target.