Investment Summary

EQT Invests In Karo Healthcare

On January 1, 2019, private equity firm EQT invested in life science company Karo Healthcare

Investment Highlights
  • This is EQT’s 4th transaction in the Life Science sector.
  • This is EQT’s 44th transaction in Sweden.

Investment Summary
Date 2019-01-01
Target Karo Healthcare
Sector Life Science
Investor(s) EQT
Deal Type Stake Purchase

Target

Karo Healthcare

Stockholm , Sweden
Karo Healthcare is a specialty pharmaceutical company in the Nordics. The company develops and markets products for pharmacies and directly to the healthcare sector. The product portfolio includes over-the-counter and prescription pharmaceuticals as well as medical devices. Karo Healthcare was incorporated in 1987 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Investor

EQT

Stockholm, Sweden

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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 197 of 317
Sector (Life Science) 4 of 14
Type (Stake Purchase) 13 of 25
Country (Sweden) 44 of 55
Year (2019) 2 of 27
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-01-01 AGS Health

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

AGS Health is an analytics driven, technology enabled Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) company providing medical billing, medical coding and healthcare analytics services to healthcare providers across the US. AGS Health was formed in 2011 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-01-23 UDG

Ludwigsburg, Germany

UDG is an agency for digital market management and communication. UDG unites expertise in concept & design, digital architecture, and project implementation within the field of UX. The services on offer range from strategic marketing consulting services to digital design and implementation. UDG was founded in 2011 and is based in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

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