EQT has set a €20bn target for a huge new flagship fund, less than a year after raising an impressive €15.6bn for its predecessor vehicle. The post EQT sets €20bn target for mammoth new flagship
Life sciences-focused Swedish venture capital house Sound Bioventures has hit a €110m final close for its debut fundraise. The post Debut Sound Bioventures fund closes on €110m to target Scandinavian, US biotech first appeared on
A pair of former EQT execs have hit an SEK1.1bn final close for their second MVI Advisors fundraise. AltAssets revealed in June last year that Sven Karlsson and fellow MVI co-founder Daniel Nilsson were more
Nordic life science-focused venture capital house Eir Ventures has hit a €122.3m final close for its debut fundraise. The post Eir Ventures picks up over €122m of investing power focused on Nordic life science sector
Agnafit Bidco, set up by private equity major Advent International and Aurora, the investment vehicle of Singapore's GIC, has withdrawn an $8bn bid for Swedish drugmaker Orphan Biovitrum (SOBI). The post Advent, GIC withdraw $8bn
Pan-European private equity firm IK Partners has sealed another deal from its €2.85bn ninth flagship fund by agreeing to pick up Renta Group from Intera Partners. The post Intera Capital agrees Renta Group exit to IK Partners following
Northern Europe-focused buyout house Verdane has sealed a minority investment in Swedish digital e-commerce platform Centra. The post Verdane taps SEK6bn Fund X to back fast-growing Swedish digital e-commerce business Centra first appeared on AltAssets
Nordic B2B software investor Monterro has raised the largest tech-focused private equity fund in the region by hitting a €700m final close. The post Monterro raises Nordic region’s biggest tech private equity fund with €700m
Pan-European private equity firm IK Partners has tapped its ninth flasghip fund to acquire cybersecurity service provider Truesec Group. The post IK Partners buys into cybersecurity service provider Truesec Group eyeing international expansion first appeared
Technology-focused investor eEquity has sealed a 15x return with the SEK9bn ($1.05bn) sale of PriceRunner to Swedish online payments provider Klarna, after holding it for less than two years. The post eEquity seals quick 15x
A powerful re-up rate from LPs has seen European private equity major EQT soar to an above-hard cap €15.7bn final close for its latest dedicated infrastructure fundraise. The post Huge LP re-up sees EQT strike
Swedish private equity house Procuritas has backed headless guitar make Strandberg to support the continued scale-up of the company. The post Procuritas picks up headless guitar specialist Strandberg as latest Fund VI deal first appeared on
Summa Equity has agreed an SEK2bn ($227m) sale of water and wastewater pump aftermarket services business Lakers Group to Vestum. The post Summa seals SEK2bn exit of water pump aftermarket specialist Lakers Group first appeared
Nordic Capital has seen portfolio business Cary Group hit an SEK9.2bn ($1.06bn) market value through a strong IPO on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange. The post Nordic Capital celebrates hugely oversubscribed Cary Group IPO, company hits
KLAR Partners is aiming to build Northern Europe's leading provider of property damage restoration services following its buyout of Oleter Group. The post KLAR Partners follows impressive €600m debut fundraise with Oleter Group buyout first
Nordea Asset Management-backed Trill Impact has raised €900m for one of the biggest first-time funds raised by an independent firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. The post Trill Impact raises one of the biggest first-time funds
Advent International and Singapore sovereign investor GIC have offered to buy booming rare-disease drugmaker Swedish Orphan Biovitrum in a deal valuing the business at about $8bn. The post Booming rare disease drugmaker SOBI valued at
Nordic private equity house Axcel has hit an €800m hard cap final close for its sixth flaghip fundraise - a hefty jump in fund size compared to its predecessor fund. The post Returning investors help
IK Investment Partners has agreed to exit corporate IT and cloud services provider Visolit to Advania for a merger after five years of investment. The post IK to exit $1bn revenue corporate IT and cloud
Eastern Asia was the top-performing region across private equity and venture capital last year with an impressive 31.5% annual return, new research shows. The post Eastern Asia top for PE, VC returns in 2020, paired
