EQT AB

EQT AB is a Swedish global investment organization operating across private equity (branded EQT Private Capital, covering Europe & North America and Asia-Pacific), infrastructure, real estate, growth equity, and venture capital strategies. The firm's private equity platform invests from early-stage ventures through large-cap buyouts, with disclosed transaction sizes ranging from €2 million to €1.6 billion in companies with enterprise values between €30 million and €250 million or more, concentrating on healthcare, technology, technology-enabled services, and industrial technology sectors. Transaction types include growth equity, leveraged and management buyouts, recapitalizations, turnarounds, distressed investments, and secondary direct investments, with the firm taking both minority and majority ownership positions depending on strategy and transaction. EQT applies a thematic, active-ownership investment approach, supported by a value-creation framework encompassing revenue enhancement, management optimization, cost improvement, and strategic add-on acquisitions, with portfolio company operations spanning Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, including a particular geographic emphasis on the Nordics, DACH, Benelux, and broader Western and Eastern Europe. The firm manages total assets under management of approximately €266 billion to €270 billion, of which roughly €141 billion is fee-generating, and went public via IPO on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 2019. Founded in 1994 by SEB, AEA Investors, and Investor AB, with Conni Jonsson as founding chairman, the firm is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices across more than 25 locations globally.