Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition: version 1
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# Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition
disambiguation: Luxembourg partnership limited by shares that holds Springer Science+Business Media Galileo Participation, not its general partner Springer Science+Business Media GP S.à r.l.
summary: Luxembourg partnership limited by shares that is the registered shareholder of Springer Science+Business Media Galileo Participation, in the BC Partners chain above Springer Nature.
legal_name: Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition S.C.A.
registered_address: 18 rue Erasme, L-1468 Luxembourg
country: LU
register_ids: LU-RCS:B176938, EUID:LURCSL.B176938, LEI:2221004BVXEVU7OKNN90
founded: 2013-05
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| owned_by | company/springer-science-business-media-gp | | | | | verified | ^ndgpacq | Recorded as its general partner (associé commandité) in the Luxembourg register filing of 22 January 2020, and placed directly above it in the chain of Springer Nature's October 2024 voting-rights notification. |
| parent_org | company/bc-partners-holdings | | | | | sourced | ^eqspvr24 | The company at the head of that chain of controlled undertakings. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition S.C.A. | legal | | | |
| Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition SCA | search | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| gleifgpacq | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/2221004BVXEVU7OKNN90 | GLEIF LEI record 2221004BVXEVU7OKNN90: Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition S.C.A. | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF | registry | | 2221004BVXEVU7OKNN90 | | | | |
| ndgpacq | https://www.northdata.com/Springer+Science+Business+Media+GP+Acquisition+SCA,+Luxembourg/B176938 | North Data: Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition SCA, Luxembourg, RCS B176938, register filings | 2026-09-21 | North Data | registry | | B176938 | | | | |
| 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 | | | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition S.C.A. is a Luxembourg partnership limited by shares (société en commandite par actions) at 18 rue Erasme in Luxembourg, registered under RCS B176938 and carrying the LEI 2221004BVXEVU7OKNN90, which GLEIF dates to May 2013.[^gleifgpacq] The Luxembourg register records it as the shareholder of Springer Science+Business Media Galileo Participation S.à r.l. from the filing of 2 August 2021, the Luxembourg company that is one of the two majority shareholders of Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA, and names Springer Science+Business Media GP S.à r.l. as its own general partner from the filing of 22 January 2020.[^ndgpacq]
Its register file shows Ewald Walgenbach as president and Ernst & Young as auditor, and annual accounts filed for every year from 2015 to 2024.[^ndgpacq] Springer Nature's voting-rights notification of 9 October 2024, published for BC Partners Holdings Limited when the shares were first admitted to trading, places this company directly below Springer Science+Business Media GP S.à r.l. and directly above Galileo Participation in the chain of controlled undertakings that runs up to BC Partners Holdings Limited of St Peter Port, Guernsey.[^eqspvr24] The 2025 group management report lists it, as Springer Science+Business Media GP Acquisition SCA of Luxembourg, among the indirect holders of more than 10 per cent of the voting rights in Springer Nature.[^snar25]
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