EQT Partners

As one of the participants in the investment market, EQT owns more than 61 billion euros of capital in 29 funds and manages assets worth more than 40 billion euros. EQT funds have portfolio companies in Europe, Asia and the United States, whose total turnover exceeds 19 billion euros, and the total number of employees exceeds 110,000 people. 2019 data.

History

2024: $4bn Acronis purchase

On August 7, 2024, the Swedish investment company EQT announced an agreement to acquire a controlling stake in the Swiss company Acronis, specializing in the development of information security solutions. The financial terms of the transaction as of the specified date are not disclosed. Read more here

2023

The entire Suse buyout

On August 17, 2023, open source software provider Suse announced that its largest shareholder was fully buying out the company and converting it into a private structure. After that, Suse shares will not be traded on the stock exchange. We are talking about a deal with the Swedish investment company EQT Partners. Read more here.

Dechra Pharmaceuticals $5.56 billion purchase

On June 2, 2023, the Swedish investment company EQT announced the conclusion of an agreement to acquire the British manufacturer of veterinary drugs Dechra Pharmaceuticals. The transaction value is £4.46 billion (approximately $5.56 billion at the exchange rate as of June 2, 2023). Read more here.

2021: Purchase of biopharmaceutical company Parexel

In early July 2021, it became known that EQT and Goldman Sachs Asset Management (the investment division of Goldman Sachs Group) are buying the clinical research company Parexel. The transaction amount is $8.5 billion. Read more here.

2020: Buying EdgeConneX

In mid-August 2020, the Swedish company EQT Partners announced the purchase of a controlling stake in EdgeConneX, one of America's first developers of peripheral data centers, which previously acquired a data center in Poland from Russian Linxdatacenter. The deal is scheduled to close in the fourth quarter of 2020. As a result, the owners of the EQT Infrastructure IV fund, which is part of the EQT, will control 85% of the shares of the data center operator. Read more here.

2022: Purchase of Baring Private Equity Asia

In mid-March 2022, Swedish investment giant EQT AB announced the purchase of an Asian competitor - Baring Private Equity Asia for $7.5 billion, seeking to significantly expand its business in a region with fast-growing private markets. This is the largest takeover of a private equity firm by another company in the industry, the agency said. Bloomberg More. here

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