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PE Firm EQT Sees Exits Ramping Up, Boosting Investor Returns

  • EQT has a ‘large number of exits’ in the works: CEO Sinding
  • Buyout firm sees improved investor returns helping fundraising

Christian Sinding

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Swedish private equity firm EQT AB is looking to take advantage of an improving mergers and acquisition market to monetize assets and return capital to its own investors, following a prolonged slump in dealmaking.

“We are confident about exits,” Chief Executive Officer Christian Sinding said in an interview Thursday, after the company reported first-half results. “We have a large number of exits that are currently active or in preparation.”