EQT Partners (acronym from "equity"?) is a private equity firm with approximately 6 billion euros in equity capital. Founded in 1994 by Investor AB, EQT Partners manages, through holding companies, numerous funds under the EQT banner. Private equity is a broad term that refers to any type of equity investment in an asset in which the equity is not freely tradable on a public stock market. ... ISO 4217 Code EUR User(s) European Union; eurozone: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain; outside eurozone: Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, Montenegro, Kosovo, French Guiana, Réunion, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Investor AB is a Swedish investment company, founded in 1916 and still controlled by the Wallenberg family. ...

Portfolio

• Company - Acquisition Date - Sales/Year^[1]
• SSP Group comprising Select Service Partner
• ADR-Haanpää Oy
• Bewator AB
• Carl Zeiss Vision Holding GmbH
• Com Hem AB - Jun 2003 - 176 million euros/ 2004
• Contex A/S
• Dometic International AB
• Duni AB
• Eldon Enclosures AB
• Findus AB - Jan 2000 - 559 million euros/ 2004
• FINN-POWER Oy
• Symrise Holding GmbH - Oct 2002 - 1138 million euros/ 2004

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Deals

• March 29, 2005 - EQT Partners AB, a buyout firm backed by Sweden's Wallenberg family, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s private-equity arm agreed to buy Denmark's ISS A/S, the world's biggest cleaning company, for about $3.8 billion in cash.^[2]
• April 15, 2005 - EQT Sells FlexLink to ABN AMRO Capital^[3]
• 1Q 2006 - EQT buys MTU Friedrichshafen and Detroit Diesel's off-highway business from DaimlerChrysler. The group was named Tognum in July, 2006.

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Management

• Conni Jonsson was part of the original team that founded EQT Partners in 1994 and has been Managing Partner since the company's foundation.

External links

• EQT home page

References