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EQT Acquires Blizoo Macedonia

On October 29, 2009, private equity firm EQT acquired communications company Blizoo Macedonia

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is EQT’s 2nd transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is EQT’s 2nd transaction in Bulgaria.
Investment Fate
  • Blizoo Macedonia was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2014.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2009-10-29
Target Blizoo Macedonia
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) EQT
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Blizoo Macedonia

Sofia, Bulgaria
Blizoo is the largest cable network operator with market leadership in Bulgaria and Macedonia. The company offers analog/digital cable TV, broadband and telephony services and continues to upgrade its network through further network digitalisation in order to broaden and improve its product offering.

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Buyer

EQT

Stockholm, Sweden

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1994
PE ASSETS 242.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

EQT is a global private equity group that purses a variety of investment strategies around the world. EQT is divided into several investment disciplines, including private capital, real assets, credit, and venture. The Firm's private capital group targets large, market-leading enterprises (investment size of €125 to €1.5 billion) across Europe and the US, as well as mid-market, growth companies (investment size of €40 to €125 million) across the US, Europe, China, and Southeast Asia. The Firm's real assets group seeks to identify control or co-control equity investments (investment size of €500 to €1 billion) in medium-sized infrastructure companies that provide an essential service to society, are recession resilient, and have secure cash flows. EQT's credit group provides flexible, long-term debt capital solutions to medium-sized European businesses, across a wide range of sectors. EQT was established in 1994 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 72 of 318
Sector: Communications M&A 2 of 16
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 31 of 84
Country: Bulgaria M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2009 M&A 3 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-10-29 Blizoo Media and Broadband EAD

Sofia, Bulgaria

Blizoo Media and Broadband EAD is a cable network operator with market leadership in Bulgaria and Macedonia. The Company offers analog/digital cable TV, broadband and telephony services, and has around 440,000 subscribers.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-11-01 Skykon AS

Arhus, Denmark

Skykon is a Danish supplier to the wind energy industry. Skykon has two business platforms; Tower Solutions and Blade Components, manufacturing towers as well as blade tooling and composite components for blades.

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