EQT AB

This article is about the Swedish investment firm. For the American energy company, see EQT Corporation.

EQT AB

Headquarters at Regeringsgatan 25
Company type	Public [1]
Traded as	Nasdaq Stockholm:  EQT
Industry	Investment management [1]
Founded	1994 (1994) in Sweden [2]
Founder	Conni Jonsson [3]
Headquarters	Regeringsgatan 25, Stockholm , Sweden
Key people	Conni Jonsson (chairman) [3] Christian Sinding (CEO) [4]
Services	Investment management [1]
Revenue	€1.6 billion (2021) (company) [1]
AUM	€210 billion (2022) [5]
Owners	Wallenberg family, Investor AB
Number of employees	1,160 [1]
Subsidiaries	EQT Ventures [6] Baring Private Equity Asia [7]
Website	eqtgroup.com

EQT AB is a Swedish global investment organization founded in 1994. ^[2] Its funds invest in private equity, infrastructure, real estate, growth equity, and venture capital in Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. ^[8]

As of 2022 ^[update] , EQT's assets under management are €210 billion / US$227 billion. ^[5] It is ranked the third largest private equity firm worldwide based on funds raised according to the 2024 edition of Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking. ^[9]

In March 2023, EQT acquired the entire stake held by SK Square and the Macquarie Asset Management Consortium for about KRW 2 trillion, becoming the largest shareholder of SK Shields with a 68% stake. ^[10]

Organization

The company was founded in 1994 by SEB, AEA Investors, and Investor AB. ^{[11] [12]} It established venture capital business, EQT Ventures in 2016, ^[6] and went public in 2019 by IPO. ^[13]

The firm and its associates have offices in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Guernsey, Helsinki, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Oslo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Warsaw and Zurich.

In 2021, EQT acquired Life Sciences Partners, a European venture capital firm with approximately €2.2 billion of assets under management ^[1] followed in 2022, by Baring Private Equity Asia managing funds of S$20.0 billion. ^[7]

In February 2025, EQT appointed Per Franzén as its incoming chief executive. He will take up this position starting in May 2025. ^[14]

Fund investments

• 2017, Medical device company Clinical Innovations from the Pritzker Group for US$250 million ^[15]
• 2019, SUSE for US$2.5 billion ^{[16] [17]}
• 2019, Zayo Group Holding Inc from Digital Colony Partners for US$14.3 billion ^[18]
• 2019, Part of a consortium with ADIA to acquire Nestlé Skin Health ^[19]
• 2019, Acumatica ^[20]
• 2019, German fiber-optic network provider Inexio for $1.1 billion ^[21]
• 2020, Spanish real estate website Idealista for €1.3 billion ^[22]
• 2020, Datacenter Provider Edge Connex was bought for $2.7 billion ^[23]
• 2021, Announced plans to acquire solar and storage developer Cypress Creek Renewables ^[24]
• 2021, purchased First Student and First Transit from FirstGroup ^[25]
• 2022, Australian retirement living portfolio from Stockland, renamed as Levande, for near $1b AUD ^[26]
• In March 2022, EQT acquired EQT with 5.3 billion euros worth of new EQT shares and 1.5 billion euros in cash paid to Bearing PEA. This gave it the rights of operators to manage the fund and the right to hold performance pay for existing funds. ^[27]
• 2023, Announced plans to acquire Zeus Company, a global leader in advanced polymer components used in life-saving medical procedures for $3.4 billion. ^[28]
• 2024, Acquired digital consultancy firm Perficient for $1 billion all cash deal. The acquisition was completed in October 2024. ^[29]
• 2024, private equity consortium led by Neuberger Berman that includes EQT AB and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board agreed to buy international private school operator Nord Anglia Education for $14.5 billion. ^[30]
• 2024, 100% of the shares of OX2, a Stockholm based renewable energy development company ^[31]
• 2024, Acquired Indostar Home Finance which is an Indian affordable housing finance company, for $210 million and gave commitments of $59 million to support in future. ^[32]
• In January 2025, EQT signed a deal to acquire a best-in-class logistics collective strategically located in major Milan and Verona submarkets in northern Italy for approximately 230 million euros. ^[33]
• On March 19, 2025, EQT announced a deal to acquire Crown Castle's small cells business for $4.25 billion. ^[34]

References

1. "EQT AB (publ) Year-end Report 2021". EQT. 19 January 2022. Archived from the original on 29 September 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
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13. "Inside private equity's race to go public". Financial Times . 10 January 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
14. https://www.ft.com/content/f31cf93e-3f01-461b-9195-a57c9fa4d214?utm_source=chatgpt.com
15. Jonathan D. Rockoff, "Private-Equity Group EQT to Buy Medical Device Company for $250 Million," Archived 16 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine The Wall Street Journal , 18 October 2017.
16. "EQT fund to acquire SUSE for $2.5bn". Financier Worldwide. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
17. Ian Murphy (18 March 2019). "EQT completes aquisition [sic] of SUSE from Micro Focus". www.enterprisetimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
18. "Digital Colony, EQT to buy communications infrastructure firm Zayo for $8.2 billion in cash". CNBC . 8 May 2019. Archived from the original on 15 October 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
19. "Nestlé enters into exclusive negotiations to sell Nestlé Skin Health to a consortium led by EQT and ADIA". Archived from the original on 2 October 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
20. "IFS and Acumatica to form global cloud ERP powerhouse under EQT ownership". Acumatica Cloud ERP. Archived from the original on 15 October 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
21. "EQT buys German fibre optic firm Inexio; source values deal around $1.1 billion". www.reuters.com. 28 September 2019. Archived from the original on 10 November 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
22. "EQT buys Spain's Idealista from Apax for €1.3bn". Archived from the original on 10 November 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
23. Zhang, Mary (19 August 2021). "EQT Infrastructure Doubles Down on EdgeConneX with Fund V". Dgtl Infra.
24. "EQT acquires solar and storage developer Cypress Creek Renewables". www.pv-tech.org. 5 July 2021. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
25. "EQT Infrastructure Closes Acquisition of First Student and First Transit". First Student . 22 July 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
26. "Levande launches following completion of Stockland Retirement Living acquisition". 15 September 2024.
27. 기자, 강구귀. "[fn마켓워치]EQT AB, 베어링PEA 인수". n.news.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved 6 January 2025.
28. "EQT Nears $3 Billion-Plus Deal for Medical Device Firm Zeus". Bloomberg.com. 18 December 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
29. "EQT Completes Acquisition of Perficient". www.perficient.com. 2 October 2024. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
30. Chopping, Dominic (21 October 2024). "Neuberger Berman Forms Consortium With EQT to Buy Nord Anglia Education in $14.5 Billion Deal". The Wall Street Journal.
31. "EQT to successfully acquire OX2". Company Website. 8 October 2024.
32. "Sweden's EQT exceeds investment targets in India, doubles down on healthcare". 5 December 2024.
33. "EQT Real Estate acquires 12-building logistics assemblage located in key Northern Italian submarkets". eqtgroup.com. 27 January 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
34. "Crown Castle to sell fiber assets to EQT Active Core and Zayo in $8.5 billion deal". Reuters. 13 March 2025. Retrieved 19 March 2025.

External links

• Official website