Value Creation

Investing is a Virtuous Circle

For over 30 years, clients have partnered with us to create long-term value by focusing on what matters most: meaningful growth and lasting performance. Investing in high-potential businesses and assets in important sectors and helping them thrive, we believe is good for investors, the broader economy and society as a whole.

Sourcing Opportunity
Planning
Active Ownership
Exits

Investing with Intent and Consideration

Our active ownership model and approach to value creation is guided by the Wallenberg family’s industrial legacy and our Nordic mindset. It is grounded in long-term thinking, responsible ownership and the conviction that business and society must grow together.

Our Portfolio

Anticimex

How Anticimex became a global pest control leader.

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Beijer Ref

A world-leading wholesaler of cooling technology and air conditioning.

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Nordic Ferry Infrastructure (NFI)

Hand sanitizer and passenger ferries: how private capital creates value.

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New CEO Per Franzén on Value Creation at EQT

“At EQT we have kept on investing into our value creation capabilities over the past three decades. Today, we combine a deeply thematic investment approach with a repeatable, systematic sector-based value creation playbook alongside AI, digital and sustainability expertise. We want to be the best owner of companies and assets, we want to build and develop stronger businesses during our ownership, we want to future-proof them for the long term. Our mindset is that everything can always be improved, we are never standing still and we will continue to strengthen and sharpen our capabilities.”

Sourcing Opportunity

Investing in what’s right
Value is already within firms and people. Our goal is to draw it out. By staying truly local, our team and a global network of more than 600 advisors in more than 25 countries are well positioned to spot opportunities, talent, ideas and businesses with significant potential to grow and move society forward. This is how we find the right companies and assets to invest in across Private Capital, Infrastructure, and Real Estate.

Active Ownership

Active ownership for long-term growth
You can only become a global leader in active ownership through commitment to consistently delivering true value. A hands-on approach requires trust by every stakeholder, something we build through track record, expertise and an open mind.

Three-Party Governance
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. With full alignment on the long term strategy between the chairperson, CEO, and an EQT industrial advisor, a business is well set up to perform, grow and create gains for all stakeholders. This well established Troika-model means alignment, clear roles, open communication, and regular performance reviews.

Future-proofing
Secular trends drive large systemic shifts, creating both challenges and opportunities. With a firm ambition to be more than capital, we invest behind positive trends with the aim of helping businesses grow with them.

Future-proofing companies is a multidimensional trade, best explained with real world examples, but it centers on positioning them for long-term success. When businesses can attract top talent, embrace digital transformation, advance sustainability, and strengthen their operational foundations, they experience positive momentum and have potential to grow from good to great. And we are present every step of the way.

Exits

Dedicated exit management
Once our goals are met, we step away by finding the right next owner or guiding our companies through a public listing, so they can continue their growth journey.

Long-lasting value
We build companies with a long-term view, one that extends far beyond our ownership. We believe this delivers performance for our clients, while creating gains that move society forward.

Key learnings for the future
Always looking to develop, we relentlessly improve our ability to build better businesses by sharing what we’ve learned and passing that knowledge on. These key insights help us find better ways to create value, time and time again.

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How Anticimex became a global pest control leader

In the spring of 2021, global pest control leader Anticimex prepared to list in one of Scandinavia’s most hotly anticipated IPOs. EQT had owned the business since 2012, taking the company from a regional player to a world leader. Anticimex had delivered 19 percent compound annual revenue growth and 29 percent compound annual EBITA growth, a measure of profitability, between 2011 and 2020, with no signs of slowing down. All funds have a lifespan however, and EQT’s sixth flagship fund had already held Anticimex for far longer than typical for private equity.

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