Springer Science+Business Media Galileo Participation: version 2
Saved 2026-09-21 04:29 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled both queue reasons. The wrong `parent_org` to company/bc-partners is gone: BC Partners LLP only advises the funds, and the page now carries `parent_org` to company/bc-partners-holdings, sourced to the chain of controlled undertakings in the voting-rights notification Springer Nature published for BC Partners Holdings Limited on 9 October 2024 (new References row `eqspvr24`, the EQS release) and to the 2025 corporate governance statement. The missing `owned_by` is now there twice over: company/springer-science-business-media-gp-acquisition from the RCS filing of 2 August 2021, and the founding shareholder company/springer-science-business-media-gp from the registration on 1 July 2021 until that filing, both from the Luxembourg register file (new References row `ndssbmg`, North Data's RCS filings for B256711). Identity gained EUID:LURCSL.B256711 and a precise founding date, 2021-07-01; the summary now names the owner, and About gives the ordered chain and the 86.60 per cent figure with the GvH votes that are counted into it. Walked the chain to the top and created five company stubs, each with a summary, its register and notification references and its own ownership row: Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition (LU, RCS B176938, LEI 2221004BVXEVU7OKNN90), Springer Science+Business Media GP (LU, RCS B176885, the SCA's general partner), BC Partners Galileo Holdings (GG, LP021676), CIE Management IX (GG, 52062) and BC Partners Group Holdings (GG, 66552, GLEIF's direct child of BC Partners Holdings). The walk ends at the existing company/bc-partners-holdings page, which has no ownership row and no ownership_status of its own, so I put it on the cleanup queue rather than leaving the chain open. Two gaps for the operator, not for the page: the RCS filings of 20 December 2021 and 10 August 2022 list a second shareholder of SSBMG beside GP Acquisition SCA, 'Springer Science+Business Media Galileo Management', and I could not tie that name to a specific legal entity (the Berlin KG of nearly that name, HRA 59782 B, was terminated in May 2025), so no row was written for it; and SSBMG's register file shows a further 'Modification, Associate(s)' filed on 26 September 2025 whose content the free register view does not show. Springer Nature's filings spell the Guernsey partnership 'BC Partners Galileo Holding L.P.' while GLEIF's single matching record reads 'BC Partners Galileo Holdings L.P.'; the stub keeps both spellings and says so. No role exists for 'advises the funds of', so BC Partners LLP's advisory role stays in About rather than as a relation.. This is the current version.
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# Springer Science+Business Media Galileo Participation <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Springer Science+Business Media Galileo Participation
disambiguation: Luxembourg holding company of the BC Partners funds, called SSBMG in Springer Nature's filings
summary: Luxembourg holding company through which funds advised by BC Partners hold their stake in Springer Nature, owned by Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition.
legal_name: Springer Science+Business Media Galileo Participation S.à r.l.
registered_address: 18 rue Erasme, L-1468 Luxembourg
country: LU
register_ids: LU-RCS:B256711, EUID:LURCSL.B256711, LEI:213800YU1KMP386YHF59
founded: 2021-07-01
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------ | ---------- | ---------- | ----- | -------- | --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/springer-science-business-media-gp-acquisition | | 2021-08-02 | | | verified | ^ndssbmg | The Luxembourg register records the change of shareholder in the filing of 2 August 2021, and the chain in Springer Nature's October 2024 voting-rights notification places this company directly above SSBMG. |
| owned_by | company/springer-science-business-media-gp | | 2021-07-01 | 2021-08-02 | true | sourced | ^ndssbmg | The shareholder recorded at the company's registration on 1 July 2021, replaced in the filing of 2 August 2021. |
| parent_org | company/bc-partners-holdings | | | | | verified | ^eqspvr24 | The company at the head of the chain of controlled undertakings in the October 2024 voting-rights notification; the 2025 corporate governance statement says it owns and controls the general partner of the funds that hold SSBMG. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| SSBMG | search | | | |
| Springer Science+Business Media Galileo Participation S.à r.l. | legal | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| gleifssbmg | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/213800YU1KMP386YHF59 | GLEIF LEI record 213800YU1KMP386YHF59: Springer Science+Business Media Galileo Participation S.à r.l. | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF | registry | | 213800YU1KMP386YHF59 | | | | |
| ndssbmg | https://www.northdata.com/Springer+Science+Business+Media+Galileo+Participation+S%C3%A0rl,+Luxembourg/B256711 | North Data: Springer Science+Business Media Galileo Participation Sàrl, Luxembourg, RCS B256711, register filings | 2026-09-21 | North Data | registry | | B256711 | | | | |
| eqspvr24 | https://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2024-10/63477905-eqs-pvr-springer-nature-ag-co-kgaa-release-according-to-article-40-section-1-of-the-wphg-the-german-securities-trading-act-with-the-objective-023.htm | EQS Voting Rights Announcement, Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA: notification by BC Partners Holdings Limited | 2026-09-21 | EQS Group | publication | 2024-10-09 | | | | | |
| snar25 | https://annualreport.springernature.com/2025/files/sn-ar-25-combined-group-management-report.pdf | Springer Nature Annual Report 2025: combined group management report | 2026-09-21 | Springer Nature | manufacturer | 2026-03-31 | | | | | |
| sncg25 | https://annualreport.springernature.com/2025/files/sn-ar-25-corporate-governance.pdf | Springer Nature Annual Report 2025: corporate governance | 2026-09-21 | Springer Nature | manufacturer | 2026-03-31 | | | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Springer Science+Business Media Galileo Participation S.à r.l., SSBMG in Springer Nature's filings, is a holding company at 18 rue Erasme in Luxembourg, entered in the Luxembourg trade and companies register under B256711 on 1 July 2021.[^ndssbmg][^gleifssbmg] It is one of the two majority shareholders of Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA: it holds its shares under a voting rights pooling agreement with GvH Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft XXXIII mbH of Stuttgart, nominates two members of Springer Nature's supervisory board and its deputy chair, and holds part of the shares in the general partner, Springer Nature Management Aktiengesellschaft.[^snar25][^sncg25] Its own shareholder is Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition SCA, at the same Luxembourg address.[^ndssbmg]
Springer Nature's corporate governance statement describes SSBMG as a majority-owned and controlled indirect subsidiary of funds advised by BC Partners LLP, the general partner of which is owned and controlled by BC Partners Holdings Limited.[^sncg25] The Luxembourg register names Springer Science+Business Media GP S.à r.l. as the shareholder at the company's registration on 1 July 2021, with a capital of €12,000, and Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition SCA in its place from the filing of 2 August 2021, the capital rising to €740,027 that month.[^ndssbmg]
The voting-rights notification Springer Nature published for BC Partners Holdings Limited on 9 October 2024, when its shares were first admitted to trading, sets out the chain of controlled undertakings in order: BC Partners Holdings Limited, BC Partners Group Holdings Limited, CIE Management IX Limited, BC Partners Galileo Holding L.P., Springer Science+Business Media GP S.à r.l., Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition SCA and then SSBMG, with BC Partners Galileo (1) L.P. named as a further member of the chain.[^eqspvr24] The notification attributes 172,238,194 voting rights, 86.60 per cent of the total, to SSBMG, a figure that includes the 100,700,053 voting rights of GvH Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft XXXIII counted with it under the pooling agreement.[^eqspvr24] The voting rights notifications summarised in the 2025 group management report name the same Luxembourg and Guernsey entities among the indirect holders above it.[^snar25]
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