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Investment Summary

EQT Invests In VBill

On February 13, 2019, private equity firm EQT invested in financial services company VBill

Investment Highlights
  • This is EQT’s 2nd transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is EQT’s 11th transaction in China.
Investment Fate
  • VBill was sold to management in 2023.

Investment Summary
Date 2019-02-13
Target VBill
Sector Financial Services
Investor(s) EQT
Deal Type Stake Purchase

Target

VBill

Beijing, China
VBill offers a full range of payment solutions, including bank card acquiring, omnichannel payment, Internet payment, and others. By leveraging its extensive merchant base, VBill also provides value-add services, such as fintech-enabled consumer lending. VBill was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Beijing, China.

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Investor

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 200 of 320
Sector: Financial Services M&A 2 of 4
Type: Stake Purchase M&A Deals 14 of 25
Country: China M&A 11 of 13
Year: 2019 M&A 4 of 26
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