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BC Partners to buy Sweden's Com Hem

July 24, 2011 — 10:21pm ET | By

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BC Partners appears to have won the competition to acquire Swedish cable TV operator Com Hem, as the companies announced a deal late last week worth about $2.6 billion.

The private equity firm, which actually is buying the operator from two other private equity firms--Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners--was one of several parties that had been understood to be in the running to buy Com Hem. Carlyle and Providence have owned Com Hem, which has about 1.8 million customers, for about the last five years.

For more:
- see this BroadbandTV News story

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