Belltower Associates

Belltower Associates or Belltower Group is an umbrella group of private military contractors who provide a maximum spectrum private military/security solution.

Background
The company was incorporated in 1997 beginning life as a security consultant and close protection agency. In 2019 Belltower started their augmentation program named Plan Infinity. Under the terms of this plan Belltower offers their soldiers immediate augmentation while deferring payment for as long as they remain active employees of Belltower. Despite critics' claims that this amounts to little more than indentured servitude, the program is a great success and is adopted as standard procedure.

Their headquarters in England is a skyscraper with all the capabilities of a military base and situated in the London Sink; other key facilities include a maritime base on the US Gulf Coast and a training facility in Bangalore, India. Currently the company has offices in: Afghanistan, Bahrain, China, Iraq, Kenya, India, Australia and United States with a group of soldier deployed in Heng Sha.

In the beginning of the novel Deus Ex: Icarus Effect, Ben Saxon is the squad leader of Belltower's Strike Team Six deployed in Australia. In the comic series, Katrina Sutherland reveals that she had worked in the past with Belltower.

Belltower is a registered and active contractor for the UN.

Trivia

 * Belltower has a viral marketing website
 * A commando of the Belltower Spec Ops support the Tyrants during the Sarif Industries attack.
 * Their name, logo, business type, and founding year suggests they are based on the real life private military company Blackwater. In fact, according to an eBook in the Detroit Police Department, private contractor companies such as Belltower formed in the wake of Blackwater's disentigration.