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EQT Acquires Guardian

On March 22, 2022, private equity firm EQT acquired consumer products company Guardian

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is EQT’s 7th transaction in the Consumer Products sector.
  • This is EQT’s 12th transaction in China.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2022-03-22
Target Guardian
Sector Consumer Products
Buyer(s) EQT
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Guardian

Shanghai, China
Guardian is a local Chinese pest control operator, with a strong presence in Eastern and Southern China. The company has a strong position in high-end commercials verticals, including MNC chain restaurants, retail, and public (airport) verticals. It strives to offer comprehensive environmental sanitary solutions and be a long-term business partner to clients. Guardian was formed in 2011 and is based in Shanghai, China.

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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 270 of 318
Sector: Consumer Products M&A 7 of 7
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 75 of 84
Country: China M&A 12 of 13
Year: 2022 M&A 5 of 13
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-03-09 Ardoq

Oslo, Norway

Ardoq is a SaaS company reinventing Enterprise Architecture for today’s digital enterprise. Ardoq’s dynamic, data-driven EA platform is designed to plan and execute major change initiatives. The tool provides a digital twin of an organization’s people, processes, systems, data, and infrastructure. Ardoq is based in Oslo, Norway.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-04-22 Encyclis

London, United Kingdom

Encyclis provides energy-from-waste services which turn residual waste into low-carbon electricity, heat and other reusable materials. Encyclis is based in London, United Kingdom.

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