M&A Deal Summary

Prima Industrie Acquires Finn-Power Oy

On February 4, 2008, Prima Industrie acquired machinery company Finn-Power Oy from EQT

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Prima Industrie’s 1st transaction in the Machinery sector.
  • This is Prima Industrie’s 1st transaction in Finland.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2008-02-04
Target Finn-Power Oy
Sector Machinery
Buyer(s) Prima Industrie
Sellers(s) EQT
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Advokatfirman Vinge (Legal)

Target

Finn-Power Oy

Kauhava, Finland
Finn-Power provides a broad customer base with solutions for sheet metal processing. The product range varies from standard stand-alone machines to tailor-made systems combining a number of forming cells and material handling into an automated unit. The company is present in all the signi. cant markets either through fully-owned sales companies or exclusive distributors, while production takes place in Finland and Italy.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Prima Industrie

Collegno, Italy

Category Company
Founded 1977
Sector Manufacturing
DESCRIPTION

Prima Industrie develops, manufactures, and sells laser systems for industrial applications, sheet metal processing machines, and industrial electronics and laser sources. Prima Industrie was founded in 1977 and is based in Collegno, Italy.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Machinery M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Finland M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2008 M&A 1 of 1
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2023-05-16 Prima Industrie - High Power Laser and Semiconductor Businesses

Turin, Italy

Prima Industrie's high-power laser and semiconductor businesses comprise convergent photonics assets. It has over 50 years of experience in the design and manufacture of semiconductor lasers and laser diode packaging, as well as the design and manufacture of high-power fiber lasers for the medical sector (urology, surgery, etc.).

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

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 32 of 194
Sector: Machinery M&A 6 of 13
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 15 of 76
Country: Finland M&A 5 of 14
Year: 2008 M&A 1 of 3
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Solna, Sweden

Candyking International AB is a provider of an integrated pick-and-mix full service concept for confectionery, natural snacks and premium chocolates to grocery retailers, cinemas, service stations and other outlets.

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