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EQT Playbook

Building Companies Well Positioned for the Future

EQT invests in good companies across the world with a mission to help them develop into even greater companies. By providing access to ownership skills and operational expertise, EQT can help portfolio companies grow and prosper, both under EQT’s ownership and with future owners.

Portfolio Companies

The portfolio companies develop through the implementation of strategies geared towards growth and operational excellence. Sales growth and margin expansion are pursued through multiple strategies, including geographic expansion, new products, acquisitions and strategic re-orientation.

EQT Playbook

Our Playbook is a key element of EQT’s active ownership model and includes tools focused on driving growth and developing portfolio companies through digitalization, sustainability and operational excellence. The EQT Playbook is used across EQT’s strategies as a tool to future-proof companies.

EQT Playbook

01

Thematic and Sector-Based Approach

EQT applies a thematic approach in deal sourcing. Guided by underlying macro trends, EQT targets high-quality companies with significant sustainable growth potential in attractive industries.

02

Locals-With-Locals

EQT believes that local knowledge, local business relationships, local presence and access to local deal flow are all critical to securing a competitive edge in private markets.

03

House of Value Creation

EQT applies an integrated framework of tools to support value creation and performance in EQT funds’ portfolio companies.

04

Governance Model

EQT’s governance model is designed to enable accountability, promote fast decision-making and empower EQT funds’ portfolio companies’ CEOs, while allowing for informal free-thinking.

05

EQT Network

Since its foundation, EQT has built a global network of advisors with a variety of backgrounds, including entrepreneurs and current or former executives of major international corporations.

06

Digitalization

Leveraging world-class industrial expertise has always been part of EQT’s DNA and exploiting digital opportunities is critical for future-proofing the EQT funds’ portfolio companies.

07

Sustainability

Sustainability is at the core of EQT’s distinctive value creation approach, critical for future-proofing EQT funds’ investments as well as staying successful and relevant for investors and society as a whole.

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