EQT Infrastructure wins prestigious industry awards

TMT Finance’ “TMT M&A Awards” is an industry competition that recognizes the world’s most successful infrastructure and telecom deals during the past year. Today, EQT is proud to announce that two of EQT Infrastructure’s portfolio companies have won the most prestigious categories in this years’...

Changes in EQT AB’s management team

Jussi Saarinen, Partner and Head of EQT CR, will, after 13 successful years with the firm, leave EQT and Morten Hummelmose has been appointed new Head of EQT CR. Morten will also become a member of the EQT Executive Committee. The leadership change follows a strategic review of EQT’s Capital...

Frank Heckes and David Forde to lead Private Equity team in Sydney

EQT today announced the recruitment of Frank Heckes and David Forde to jointly lead EQT Private Equity’s team in Australia and New Zealand. The team will be based in Sydney and work alongside EQT's Infrastructure team, led by Ken Wong, and continue to further build EQT’s overall presence in the...

Metlifecare securityholders vote in favour of APVG acquisition

Metlifecare (NZX: MET, ASX: MEQ) announced its securityholders have overwhelmingly approved the acquisition of Metlifecare by APVG, an entity owned by EQT Infrastructure IV, at the Scheme Meeting held in Auckland, New Zealand today. EQT is pleased to confirm that the resolution to approve the...

Weekend read: EQT’s purpose driven approach highlighted in Harvard Business Review

EQT highlighted as an example on how to define and drive a durable value proposition.

Olof Svensson appointed Head of Shareholder Relations

Olof Svensson has been appointed Head of Shareholder Relations at EQT AB. Olof Svensson comes most recently from J.P. Morgan’s Equity Capital Markets team in London where he spent more than 15 years.

SUSE and Rancher Labs join forces in helping enterprises accelerate their digital transformation journey

EQT portfolio company SUSE is the world’s largest independent open source infrastructure software provider. After having executed on an ambitious organic growth strategy, SUSE today announced the acquisition of Silicon Valley-based Rancher Labs, a leading Kubernetes container management platform....

EQT Real Estate accelerates roll-out of Swedish urban logistics platform

The rapid pace of urbanization and demographic growth are placing new demands on cities’ urban landscapes as we know them. An uptick in population and continuous developments of new residential areas and big box retail centers have over time resulted in a reduction of warehouse facilities in clos...

EQT’s 2020 Annual Investor Meeting – “a truly digital experience”

While many other events this spring have been cancelled, postponed or simply turned into video presentations, EQT decided to transform the 2020 Annual Investor Meeting into a fully digital experience.

CEO Christian Sinding reflecting on respect

Below you will find an internal message from EQT’s CEO Christian Sinding posted to all employees earlier this week, following the political unrest during the last few weeks in the US. It reflects on EQT’s values, on having zero tolerance to discrimination and the vital importance of respecting...

EQT PRI Transparency Report 2020

It is a pleasure to announce that EQT, for the seventh consecutive year, has reported on its sustainability progress according to the PRI Reporting Framework.

Ellab closes third add-on and doubles services business in seven months

Ellab is a leading global supplier of solutions and services for validating, measuring and monitoring thermal applications for the pharmaceutical and food processing industries. Since acquired by EQT in September 2019, the company has doubled its validation services operations through an ambitiou...

Lima moves the needle within virtual orthopaedics

EQT portfolio company Lima continues to innovate at the intersection of healthcare and technology by digitizing the pre-operative stages of orthopaedic surgery. With the newly launched Smart SPACE 3D platform, doctors are able to plan and position implants virtually before even meeting their...

EQT portfolio companies respond to COVID-19

As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts societies and impacts everyday lives, businesses are finding new and creative ways to adapt to the current situation. In the light of this ‘new normal’, many of EQT’s portfolio companies have quickly pivoted their operations in response to the outbreak in order t...

50th Anniversary of Earth Day

Today, 22 April 2020, marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. When the movement started in 1970, 20 million Americans — 10 percent of the U.S. population at the time — took to the streets, college campuses and hundreds of cities to protest against environmental ignorance and to demand a new way...

EQT supports research and testing initiatives in response to COVID-19

The global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic brings unprecedented challenges and everyone is affected one way or another - humans, societies, businesses and the economy as a whole. People across the world are struggling - with the disease, the pressure of potentially losing their jobs, or at the...

EQT Infrastructure IV Scheme Implementation Agreement with Metlifecare

On 29 December 2019 Asia Pacific Village Group Limited (“APVG”), an entity owned by EQT Infrastructure IV fund (“EQT Infrastructure IV”) entered into a Scheme Implementation Agreement (“SIA”) with Metlifecare Limited (“Metlifecare”), to acquire 100 percent of Metlifecare shares by way of a scheme...

Tackling remote ways of working

The COVID-19 pandemic is locking down large parts of the world and countries are taking unprecedented actions to prevent and delay the spreading of the Coronavirus. Given this new and unforeseeable situation, many companies urge their employees to work from home as a means of social distancing. T...

EQT on the COVID-19 pandemic

The letter below has been sent to investors in EQT funds from Christian Sinding, CEO and Managing Partner, and Jussi Saarinen, Head of Client Relations & Capital Raising and Partner. We hope you and your families are all well in these turbulent times of the COVID-19 pandemic. The spreading is now...

It’s Partner promotion time

It is a great pleasure to announce this years’ Partner promotions!