EQT Private Equity closes acquisition of Chr. Hansen’s Natural Colors division

On 26 September 2020, EQT Private Equity announced its intention to acquire the Natural Colors division of Chr. Hansen (“Natural Colors”), the leading global developer and manufacturer of natural coloring ingredients for food and beverages.  EQT is hereby pleased to confirm that the closing of th...

Fenix Marine Services: at the forefront of e-commerce and transportation infrastructure

Fenix Marine Services (“FMS”) operates one of the largest container terminals in North America. When EQT Infrastructure invested in the company in late 2017, FMS began its transformation from a cost center into a market leader in the Port of Los Angeles. Since then, more than USD 100 million has...

EQT Real Estate signs pre-lease for development of 14.1k sqm education property in Stockholm

The rapid pace of urbanization and creation of new residential neighbourhoods is placing new demands on cities’ and creating new urban landscapes devoid of necessary local amenities, such as modern education facilities in central locations. Guided by this macro trend and combined with deep sector...

EQT wins prestigious industry awards in its core sectors

The Private Equity International and Infrastructure Investor Awards are two leading industry competitions that recognize the world’s most successful private markets investors and high profile transactions during the past year. Today, EQT is proud to be voted winner in some of the most prestigious...

EQT Partner promotions

2020 was an unprecedented year - a year of many challenges and hardships, but also of opportunities. EQT continued on its growth trajectory and the strength of EQT’s thematic investment approach was confirmed by the resilience of the portfolio companies, which performed well despite the pandemic....

“Open source is becoming the backbone for driving digital transformation”

EQT portfolio company SUSE powers the economy. While it may sound grandiose, it isn’t far-fetched. SUSE’s open-source technology supports massive IT workloads in some of the world’s largest companies within telecom, pharma, automotive, manufacturing and banking. We sat down with SUSE's CEO Meliss...

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...