Private company

EQT Partners

Logo: EQT Partners, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

Swedish investment firm

EQT AB is a Swedish global investment organization founded in 1994. Its funds invest in private equity (EQT Private Capital Europe & North America), infrastructure (EQT Infrastructure), real estate (EQT Real Estate), growth equity, and venture capital in Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. As of 2025, EQT's assets under management are €266 billion (US$285 billion), of which €141 billion are fee-generating.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1994Founded1
  • Industryinvestment management1
  • HeadquartersStockholm1
  • Founded inStockholm1
  • Websitewww.eqtgroup.com
  • Legal formaktiebolag1
  • LEI213800U7P9GOIRKCTB343
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressBOX 16409, 103 27 Stockholm, Sweden3
  • Registered withSwedish Companies Registration Office, 556849-41803

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Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons13

EQT AB is a Swedish global investment organization founded in 1994. Its funds invest in private equity (EQT Private Capital Europe & North America), infrastructure (EQT Infrastructure), real estate (EQT Real Estate), growth equity, and venture capital in Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. As of 2025, EQT's assets under management are €266 billion (US$285 billion), of which €141 billion are fee-generating. It is ranked the second largest private equity firm worldwide based on funds raised according to the 2026 edition of Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking.2

Corporate structure

EQT Partners sits at the top of its group. 34 entities, 8 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What EQT Partners reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

The company was founded in 1994 by SEB, AEA Investors, and Investor AB. Conni Jonsson was founding chairman.

EQT established venture capital business EQT Ventures in 2016, and went public in 2019 by IPO.

In 2021, EQT acquired Life Sciences Partners, a European venture capital firm with approximately €2.2 billion of assets under management followed in 2022, by Baring Private Equity Asia managing funds of S$20.0 billion.

In February 2025, EQT appointed Per Franzén as its incoming chief executive, as of May 2025.

From Wikipedia’s article on EQT AB, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

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Also owns

Subsidiaries (GLEIF)

Also consolidated

From Wikidata.1 Ownership links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); each one cites its LEI record.

Acquisitions

  1. 2021Acquired Torghatten1
  2. 2018Acquired SUSE1
  3. 2017Acquired Enity Bank Group (Norwegian Branch)1
  4. Mar 2013Acquired EEW Energy from Waste1
  5. 2003Acquired Com Hem1
  6. 1998Acquired UPC Sweden1

Timeline

  1. 1994Founded Founded in Stockholm1

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