Connecting multiple customer AD's to SharePoint 2013

Hi all,
I have a question about connecting multiple Active Directories to SharePoint 2013.
We are building a SharePoint 2013 environment with several Web Applications. Each Web Application hosts the SharePoint environment of a different company.
Each company has their own UPS which has to connect to the company AD located in the company network. The different companies may not see users of the other companies in the people picker. The users has to sign in with
SSO.
What is the best way to accomplish this?
Mark

ADFS won't solve profile sync, however.
I would suggest a multi-tenant setup (partitioned UPA). This way when pulling in UPA data, you can use a single UPA Service Application and UPSS instance.
http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010mt1.aspx
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