Diaverum enters the Macedonian market through the acquisition of PZU Diamed Macedonia. This is one of the biggest investments from Sweden since Macedonia gained its independence twenty-seven years ago. PZU Diamed Macedonia is since 2014 operating nine di...

Preem sold Preem Gas to Kosan Gas in June 2017. To follow up on that transaction Preem now sells the LPG depot in Skarvik in Port of Gothenburg to Kosan Gas. Preem is the largest fuel company in Sweden and has a vision to lead the transformation towards...

The Estonian cement producer Kunda Nordic Tsement has divested its port operations in Kunda, Estonia, to Baltic Maritime Logistics Group. Port of Kunda is the fifth largest port in Estonia by volume and handles more than 1.5 million tons of cargo, mainly...

Golden-Agri Stena, since 2012 a joint venture between Stena Bulk and Golden Agri-Resources, has established a new joint venture, GSB Tankers, together with Bay Crest Management. GSB Tankers is established to undertake the operation and commercial managem...

Summa Equity, a leading Nordic private equity investor, has acquired majority shareholding of the Finnish company HyTest, producer of antibodies and antigens for the diagnostic industry. HyTest was founded in 1994 by a group of Russian scientists who are...

Duni has on 15 October acquired 75 percent of the shares in BioPak Pty Ltd for a purchase price of approx. MSEK 410. BioPak is a leading supplier of sustainable packaging for the food service industry in Australia and New Zealand with an annual turn...

Jacobs Douwe Egberts, one of the world´s largest coffee groups (controlled by JAB Holding), has acquired JOBmeal Holding AB from Valedo and others. JOBmeal was founded in 2000 by a number of local Swedish companies with similar service and product offeri...

Vattenfall, Vestas and PKA have partnered to deliver and operate 353 MW of onshore wind through the Blakliden/Fäbodberget wind farm in Northern Sweden. The project will be one of the largest onshore wind farms in Sweden, with a total capacity of 353 MW,...

Castellum and the Swedish National Courts Administration has, following approval from the Swedish government, entered into a lease agreement regarding new modern courtroom premises in Malmö. The term of the lease agreement is 20 years. The plan is that t...

Nordic Capital Fund IX has acquired the Macrobond Group, one of the world's leading providers of research systems and macroeconomic and financial time series data from primary and third-party sources. Macrobond has developed a global and scalable SaaS ap...

On 17 September 2018 Aktiebolaget SKF (publ) ("SKF") successfully issued EUR 300 million senior unsecured notes carrying a fixed rate coupon of 1.250 per cent. due 2025. The net proceeds of the issue were used to redeem parts of the issuer's 2012/2019 an...

Vi Invest's hotel under establishment in Ulriksdal will open by the end of 2019. Vi Invest have signed an agreement with the hotel group Marriott that the hotel will be a part of the hotel chain's concept AC Hotels By Marriott. The hotel is going to have...

E-commerce retailer Babyshop has completed a SEK 165 million financing round at a pre-money valuation of approximately SEK 1.5 billion. Established in 2006 by Marcus and Linn Tagesson, Babyshop is the leading online retailer for baby and kids products in...

The leading Northern European private equity fund, Via Equity, and the largest commercial pension fund in Denmark, PFA Pension Forsikringsaktieselskab, have invested in Advania AB, one of the largest IT providers in the Nordics, and is now part of the ow...

Midroc Automation has signed an agreement regarding the acquisition of all shares in LKN Industriautomation from LKN Holding. LKN Industri-Automation is a leading Swedish supplier of automation production systems and solutions with customers predominantl...

Fastighets AB Eric Ekblad has divested a property portfolio of seven properties in central Jönköping. The buyer is Fastighets AB Regio. The portfolio mainly consists of offices and retail properties, but include also residential properties as well gym an...

Capio has entered into exclusivity regarding the proposed sale of Capio France to Vivalto Santé ("Vivalto") pending the finalization of the documentation related thereto as is customary in the French market. The consideration for the proposed transaction...

Private equity fund Argan Capital has signed an agreement to divest GCE Group to ESAB, which is a global leader in the welding industry and part of Colfax Corporation. The transaction is subject to customary competition approval. GCE Group is Europe's le...

SKF has signed an agreement to divest its linear and actuation technology business to Triton. The total consideration of the deal is SEK 2.75 billion, on a cash- and debt free basis and it is expected to close during the end of 2018. The divestment is su...

Ahlsell AB has entered into an agreement with KNAPP regarding the manufacturing, installation and commissioning of a new automated warehouse system (ASR Automated Storage and Retrieval System) in Ahlsell's central storage facility in Hallsberg. The autom...

The project was developed by Green Investment Group (GIG), the specialist green energy principal investment business of Macquarie Group (Macquarie), and SCA Energy AB (SCA) and will comprise 56 Siemens Gamesa 4.2 MW turbines. GIG will own 100 per cent of...

​​​​​​Telia Company has on 20 July 2018 acquired Bonnier Broadcasting from Bonnier. Bonnier Broadcasting, which includes TV4, C More and Finnish MTV, is one of the Nordic region's leading television companies, heading the development of video content and...

Capio has signed an agreement to acquire all shares in Legevisitten with specialist care operations, mainly focusing on healthcare for the elderly, and primary care activities. In 2017, the group's net sales were MSEK 613. The acquisition increases Capio...

Clas Ohlson AB (publ) launches the new concept “Clas Fix it”. With Clas Fix it, Clas Ohlson’s customers can get help with tasks that are too small to bring in traditional help, but a little too difficult or tough for customers to fix on their own. Clas F...

Starwood Capital Group with Scius Partners as local partner have divested a property portfolio of 51 properties with offices, warehouses and logistic for a total value of approximately SEK 3,6 billion. The buyer is Hemfosa and the properties are intended...

Investment AB Latour, through its wholly owned subsidiary Hultafors Group AB, has acquired Hellberg Safety AB which develops and provides hearing protection worldwide within passive earmuffs, electronic earmuffs and face protection and communication solu...

Karlsnäs Capital AB has on 29 June 2018 divested all of its shares in Trioplast Industrier AB, one of the leading European manufacturers of sustainable packaging solutions based on polyethylene film, to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Altor Fund IV. Triopla...

Camurus has carried out a directed issue to Swedish and international institutional investors raising approximately SEK 100 million through an accelerated book building process. Camurus is a Swedish research-based pharmaceutical company committed to deve...

On 29 June 2018, the Swedish Patent and Market Court of Appeal dismissed the Swedish Competition Authority’s action for administrative fines against Swedish Match, producer of Swedish snuff (“snus”) products. The Authority claimed that Swedish Match had...

AMF Pensionsförsäkring AB (“AMF”) and Kommunal Landspensjonkasse gjensidige forsikringsselskap (”KLP”) have entered into an agreement for the purpose of acquiring a substantial part of the shares in Stena Renewable AB from Stena Adactum AB, for the purpo...

REMONDIS has acquired Ad Infinitum Reycling AB, a company engaged in the waste management market and with a yearly turnover of 200 MSEK. The company, with head-quarter in Borås, primarily focuses on collecting and treating commercial and municipal waste...

Sandvik’s business area Sandvik Materials Technology has agreed to divest its stainless steel wire business to Zapp Group, a German family-owned leading supplier of advanced metal products. The divested business includes the production unit in Sandviken,...

Virtusize AB, a Sweden-based pioneer in virtual fitting rooms and online fitting solutions, has been divested to a conglomerate of investors. The buyer conglomerate includes some of the leading retailers in Japan, which has emerged as one of Virtusize’s...

Europris ASA and the Svensson family, owners of Runsvengruppen AB and ÖoB AB, have entered into an agreement to create a pan-Nordic discount retail platform. Together, the companies operate 349 stores in Norway and Sweden and had aggregated sales exceedi...

KPMG has divested its division for accounting and payroll services to IK VIII Fund. The divested business division, which has approximately 300 employees located at different offices in Sweden, will be integrated with Aspia, a portfolio company of IK VII...

Nordic Capital Fund VIII has agreed to divest AniCura, one of Europe’s leading providers of high quality veterinary care for companion animals to Mars Petcare, a diverse and growing pet health and nutrition business. The parties have agreed not to disclo...

The shareholders of Svensk Hypotekspension have agreed to divest their shares in the company to Nordax Bank. The transaction is subject to relevant regulatory approvals.   Svensk Hypotekspension is the only provider of equity release mortgages to el...

Preem has invested in Lignolproduktion AB, a joint venture company to be held by Preem and RenFuel, and enters into a partnership with RenFuel regarding the establishment of an extraction plant for the production of Lignol, which is produced from lignin,...

JCE Group and Cargotec, listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki stock exchange, have established a joint venture, BRUKS Siwertell Group, specialised in dry bulk handling by way of merging the businesses of BRUKS and Siwertell. JCE Invest will be the majority owner...

Vattenfall, Vestas and PKA, a Danish pension fund, have agreed on a joint ownership of the Blakliden/Fäbodberget wind park consisting of a total of 84 wind turbines with a total capacity of 353 MW, making it one of Sweden's largest wind parks. The total...

The ICA Group, through ICA Sverige, has entered into a cooperation agreement with the UK-based company Ocado Group PLC and will use Ocado's e-commerce platform and technology for highly automated e-commerce warehouse solutions. The agreement will serve t...

On 18 April 2018, Vattenfall published the base prospectus for its EUR 10,000,000,000 euro medium term note ("EMTN") program, the first EMTN prospectus to be approved by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority and the first EMTN program governed by S...

Northvolt AB kicked off the construction of Northvolt Labs on 27 April 2018. Northvolt Labs, which will be located in Västerås, Sweden, will be a cutting edge scale-up line and research facility to be used for development, testing and industrialization o...

Accent Equity 2012 and minority shareholders have agreed to divest Stål & Hyr Group, a rental provider of machinery and equipment, to Renta, a Finnish rental company established by Intera in 2016. Stål & Hyr is headquartered in Varberg, Sweden, a...

Fortum, Jämtkraft, Mälarenergi, Skellefteå Kraft, Statkraft, Tekniska verken i Linköping, Uniper and Vattenfall, together representing 95 procent av the Swedish hydropower industry, have agreed to establish a jointly owned company, Vattenkraftens Miljöfo...

The Swedish state (through the National Negotiation on Housing and Infrastructure) has entered into agreements with a large number of municipalities and regions regarding the establishment of a new high-speed railway between Stockholm – Gothenburg and St...

The British real estate fund Rockspring, together with Vencom, sell Lidingö Centrum to Grosvenor. Lidingö Centrum has an area of around 19 900 square meters in total and is the main service center at Lidingö with 42 commercial tenants, among others, Coop...

Kaunis Iron took over the mine in Tapulivuoma near Kaunisvaara in Pajala municipality, previously held by Northland Resources, in 2017. The mining production is expected to restart during the summer of 2018, and certain elements of the operations will be...

Swedish streaming music company Spotify's shares were listed for trading on Tuesday, April 3rd. Mannheimer Swartling has acted as Spotify's primary legal advisor in corporate matters since 2011, and served as Swedish advisor to Spotify in the listing.

BioInvent International has carried out a directed issue raising approximately SEK 85 million through an accelerated book building process. BioInvent International AB is focused on the discovery and development of novel and first-in-class immuno-regulato...

Alfa Laval has divested its heat exchanger business, currently part of its Greenhouse division, to the NIBE Group. The business had a turnover of approximately SEK 300 million in 2017 and has approximately 60 employees located in Sweden, France, Russia,...

NRE Sweden AB is now commencing the construction of 99 owner-occupied apartments in Hägerneholm, next to Arninge in Täby. The total area is approximately 5,500 square metres GFA. The project is built for Rimbo Hus AB, which has entered into an agreement...

Nordic Capital has agreed to acquire the European online payments provider Trustly from Bridgepoint Development Capital and others. Trustly has approximately 200 employees and is headquartered in Stockholm, with regional offices in Spain, Malta, Germany...

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, represented by Mannheimer Swartling, has defeated a claim for USD 460 million (incl. interest) brought by the Turkish-owned company Disi Water Private Shareholding Company Limited ("Diwaco"). The dispute arose out of a si...

Murata Machinery, Ltd. ("Muratec"), a Japanese technology company, has acquired AGVE AB ("AGVE"), a leading manufacturer of Automated Guided Vehicle ("AGV") with head office and main production site in Gothenburg. AGVE is a leading company in the global...

Under the 2013 Stockholm Agreement it was decided to expand the Stockholm metro system to Nacka, Arenastaden and Barkarby, and for the blue metro line to be extended to Gullmarsplan and be connected to the green metro line in order to increase...

The Nomo group, a part of Axel Johnson International, has acquired Rotera Kullager i Täby AB and Rotera Kullager i Västberga AB in two simultaneous transactions. Rotera Kullager supplies bearings, transmissions and seals to industrial customers in the Sw...

On 8 February 2018, Nordic Capital and Sampo, through NDX Intressenter AB, announced a mandatory public cash offer to the shareholders of Nordax. Nordax is a niche bank in the Nordic region providing unsecured consumer loans and deposit accounts to more...

The owners behind the Swedish cosmetics company IsaDora has divested the business to the Danish private equity firm Axcel. IsaDora is Swedish producer and distributor of cosmetics with production and headquarters in Malmö and additional production facili...

The City of Stockholm has completed a public procurement of the city's general IT infrastructure with related support services. The procurement is included as part of the city's digitalisation efforts within the public sector. The IT services subject to...

Göteborg Energi AB ("GE") has completed a public procurement of a new service based business support solution for the entire GE group. The procurement of the support solution has been part of an internal change project within the GE group with focus on c...

Euronext, a leading pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, has acquired from the Serendipity Group 80% of the capital of InsiderLog, a Stockholm-based player in the field of insider list management. InsiderLog, which has around 170 clients in the Scandin...

JOBmeal Group AB has acquired Oy Selecta Ab, Selecta's Finnish business. Oy Selecta Ab offers coffee, vending and related services throughout Finland. JOBmeal Group AB, whose majority owner is Valedo Partners Fund II AB, is a leading provider of workplac...

Eolus Vind has signed an agreement with Aquila Capital regarding the sale of the wind parks Kråktorpet and Nylandsbergen comprising 61 Vestas V136 3.8 MW wind turbines with a combined installed capacity of 232 MW. The preliminary purchase price is EUR 26...

SAAB AB (publ) has acquired GKN Aerospace Applied Composites AB. GKN Aerospace Applied Composites AB is based in Linköping and is a leading supplier of advanced composite components. SAAB AB (publ) was advised by Mannheimer Swartling in the transaction.

D. Carnegie & Co AB (publ) has on 15 December 2017 entered into an agreement to acquire a property portfolio from Akelius for SEK 2.47 billion before deduction for deferred tax amounting to SEK 0.21 billion. The portfolio consists of 27 properties wi...

Defence and security company SAAB acquires the Swedish combat boat producer Dockstavarvet and the repair shipyard Muskövarvet. Dockstavarvet is a leading producer of aluminium boats for military and non-military applications and Muskövarvet is a full-ser...

E.ON Lokala Energilösningar provides district heating and has several local distributed energy solutions across the southern and central parts of Sweden. E.ON was advised by Mannheimer Swartling in the transaction.

Skanska Wind Power Invest AB has sold all its shares (corresponding to fifty per cent of all shares) in Mullbergs Vindpark AB to AB Persson Invest, for a purchase price of approximately SEK 370 million. Mullbergs Vindpark AB owns the producing onshore wi...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Fidelio Capital in connection with the fund raising of additional SEK 3 billion. Fidelio Capital is a Swedish investment company. Fidelio Capital's investment strategy will remain the same as pre fund raise, with a contin...

Litorina V AB (Litorina V) has acquired a majority stake in Digpro AB (Digpro), a leading provider of geographic information systems to network companies and municipalities. Digpro was founded in 1989 in Stockholm and has an annual turnover exceeding SEK...

Arjo AB (publ) ("Arjo"), the former Patient & Post-Acute Care business area of Getinge AB ("Getinge"), is now a separately listed company with its shares of series B trading on Nasdaq Stockholm. On 12 December 2017, the shares of series B in Arjo wer...

Clas Ohlson AB (publ) has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with MatHem i Sverige AB, Sweden's largest online grocery shop and a leading actor in e-commerce. The strategic collaboration entails, inter alia, that Clas Ohlson's customers will be a...

Spotify, Tencent Holdings Limited (Tencent) and its subsidiary Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) have announced mutual equity investments. TME and Spotify will acquire new shares representing minority equity stakes in each other for cash. In additi...

Infranode has held its third and final closing. Infranode has raised in total SEK 4.45 billion, of which SEK 900 million was raised from Fjärde AP-Fonden at final closing. Infranode had its first closing in 2014 after having raised SEK 1.45 billion from...

Schörling & Partners AB, jointly owned by Melker Schörling Tjänste AB, Stefan Persson, UIE Malta Holding Ltd. and Mikael Ekdahl AB, has on 14 November 2017 announced a public cash offer to the shareholders of Melker Schörling AB ("MSAB"). The total v...

SAS has successfully issued a SEK 1,500,000,000 senior unsecured bond carrying an annual fixed coupon of 5.375 per cent due 2022. The net proceeds of the Issuer were used to finance existing financial indebtedness and for general corporate purposes. An a...

Spotify has acquired Soundtrap AB, a Stockholm-based company that empowers artists of all levels to create music online with a web-based, easy to use, collaborative music recording and production studio. Closing of the transaction took place on 16 Novemb...

Northern Horizons care property fund has acquired a nursing home in Angered, Göteborg, during construction for approximately SEK 240 million. The project includes a senior home with 72 apartments on five floors on approximately 5 300 square metres. The p...

SAS AB has carried out a directed share issue raising approximately SEK 1,270 million through an accelerated book building process. SAS is Scandinavia's leading airline. The company offers more than 800 flights daily and annually more than 29 million pas...

On 3 November 2017, The Swedish Competition Authority (SCA) issued a decision to close an investigation into alleged abuse of dominance by Novamedia, which operates the Swedish Postcode Lottery. The decision marks an end to the most lengthy abuse of domi...

GE (NYSE: GE) and Green Investment Group Limited (Green Investment Group), part of Macquarie Group (Macquarie), have partnered to deliver and operate 650 MW of onshore wind through the Markbygden ETT wind farm in Northern Sweden. The project will be the...

On 25 October 2017, Consilium AB (publ) issued SEK 200 million perpetual hybrid securities carrying a floating rate coupon of 6.00 per cent over 3-month STIBOR. Under the terms and conditions of the hybrid securities, Consilium has the ability to issue s...

Intrum has entered into a definitive agreement with Lowell, a European credit receivables management company, to divest Lindorff’s businesses in Denmark, Estonia, Finland and Sweden as well as Intrum Justitia’s business in Norway. The transaction values...

Sandvik Materials Technology ("SMT") has signed an agreement to divest its welding wire operations to ESAB, a global leader in the welding industry and part of Colfax Corporation. The deal includes the production units in Sandviken, Sweden and Scranton,...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Stockholmsnorrskenet Founders Fund in connection with the formation and the subsequent initial closing of the fund at SEK 300 million. Stockholmsnorrskenet Founders Fund is based in Stockholm and is a unique, altruistic i...

D. Carnegie & Co AB (publ) has completed a SEK 3.25 billion refinancing with AIG Asset Management (Europe) Limited, alongside with a SEK 750 million revolving capex facility. D. Carnegie & Co is a property company focusing on owning and developin...

Skanska Wind Power Invest has sold all its shares (corresponding to 2/3 of all shares) in Sjisjka Vind AB to a fund administrated by BlackRock, for a purchase price of approximately SEK 160 million. Sjisjka Vind owns the producing onshore wind park Sjisj...

Google has acquired a 109 hectare property in Horndal, Avesta Municipality, from Avesta Municipality for a potential building of a data center. There are, however, no plans to build at the property at present. Google was advised by Mannheimer Swartling i...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Accent Equity in connection with the formation and the subsequent closing of Accent Equity 2017 at its target of SEK 3 billion. Accent Equity 2017 is based on Jersey and will be advised by its Swedish advisor, Accent Equi...

Altor Fund IV has acquired BTI Studios, a leading global localization player, from Carlyle European Technology Partners II. BTI Studios provides dubbing, subtitling and access services in over 50 languages to Video-on-Demand platforms, major film studios...

Wirtgen Wind Invest GmbH has acquired Laxåskogen wind park in the municipality of Laxå from WKN AG and TCC Förvaltning AB. The wind park will comprise of 7 Siemens SWT-3.6-130 (3.6 MW) turbines with a total capacity of 25.2 MW and with a total height of...

Getinge AB has carried out a new issue of shares with preferential rights for the company's shareholders raising approximately SEK 4.3 billion. Getinge is a global provider of innovative solutions for operating rooms, intensive-care units, sterilization...

Perforce Software Inc. has acquired Uppsala based Hansoft Technologies AB, a leading provider of enterprise Agile planning tools. The acquisition deepens the Perforce portfolio of solutions by adding a robust Agile planning and project management toolset...

On September 21, 2017, Telia Company announced that it reached a global settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission and the Dutch Public Prosecution Service. The settlement related to issues concerning compliance wi...

E.ON Wind Sweden AB has divested all shares in Åliden Vind AB and Brattmyrliden Vind AB to Falck Renewables S.p.A. Åliden Vind AB and Brattmyrliden Vind AB own two ready-to-build wind power projects in the municipality of Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, with a com...

San Sac Group has acquired Avfallsteknik Skandinavien and its subsidiary Service Link Skandinavien. Avfallsteknik Skandinavien is Sweden's leading distributor of horizontal and vertical balers as well as compactors and Service Link Skandinavien is the le...

Funds managed by current and former partners of Bregal Capital LLP divest BlueStep Bank to EQT VII. BlueStep Bank was founded in 2005 and is today a market leading specialist mortgage provider in the Nordic region, with a loan portfolio of SEK 13 billion...

Investment fund Accent Equity 2012 has divested its majority stake in Akademibokhandeln Holding AB (publ) to Volati. Other sellers included J.P. Killberg & Son Bokhandelsaktiebolag and Stiftelsen Bokförlaget Natur & Kultur. Management reinvested...

Stål & Hyr Group AB (with the investment fund Accent Equity 2012 as a majority owner) has acquired all shares in Dennis Maskinuthyrning AB. Closing of the transaction took place on 14 July 2017. Stål & Hyr and Dennis Maskinuthyrning are both acti...

On 2 June 2017, Sinopec Ningbo Engineering Co., Ltd and Sinopec Engineering Group (China), in consortium with Tecnimont S.p.A. (Italy) and Tecnimont Russia OOO, signed an EPC contract with JSC NIPIgaspererabotka (NIPIGas), a company of the Gazprom Group,...

Adelis Equity Partners has invested in AddPro. AddPro is active in IT, Safe & Effective IT, and is one of the leading application and cloud integrators in Sweden. AddPro is expected in 2017 to reach a turnover of approximately MSEK 300 with good prof...

Apetit Plc has signed an agreement to sell its seafood business in Finland, Norway and Sweden to the Norwegian seafood group Insula AS, a group of specialised and traditional seafood companies operating in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Through the acquisit...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Impilo in connection with its formation and the subsequent establishment of its initial investment pool. Impilo is a Swedish domiciled investment company focusing on investments in healthcare and health related businesses...

Essity Aktiebolag (publ) ("Essity"), the former hygiene business of Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA ("SCA"), is now a separately listed company with its shares trading on Nasdaq Stockholm. On 15 June 2017, the series A shares and the series B shares i...

Mengus's second fund, Mengus 2011, is selling the site-leasehold to the property Uggleborg 14, by Mengus named Sthlm HUB. The property, which is located in close proximity to the Stockholm Central Station, comprises 5,900 square metres of leasable area a...

The European Court of Justice has determined that the Swedish Energy Authority's decision concerning E.ON Biofor Sverige's imports of sustainable biogas is contrary to the rules on free movement of goods in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European U...

ProSiebenSat.1, an independent media company with a strong presence in the TV and digital markets, has agreed to divest Etraveli, a global online travel agency (OTA) for flights operating under the brands Gotogate, Supersaver and Seat24, and also operati...

Stockholm-listed Scandic Hotels has agreed to acquire Restel's Finnish hotel operations for EUR 114.5 million on a cash- and debt-free basis. Restel currently has approximately 7,600 rooms at 43 hotels. Most of the hotels are operated under the Cumulus b...

On 19 June, Swedish fintech leader Klarna was granted a banking licence by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. Klarna was founded in 2005 in Stockholm and is now one of Europe's largest banks, providing easy to use payment solutions for 60 milli...

Mannheimer Swartling advised Volvo Cars in the formation of a joint venture, Zenuity AB, together with Autoliv, to become the world leader in the development of software for autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems. It marks the first ti...

Veidekke Bostad becomes partner in Folkhem Trä when Rikshem sells half of the wholly owned company. Rikshem and Veidekke Bostad already have a well-established cooperation regarding the development of condominiums. The collaboration is now further streng...

Preem has divested Preem Gas to Kosan Gas. Preem Gas markets, sells and transports liquefied petroleum gas products. The product portfolio consists of propane and butane solutions and mixtures of these. Preem is the largest fuel company in Sweden and has...

In a sale and purchase agreement with the European property fund Kildare Partners, Kungsleden AB (publ) is selling 18 industrial and warehouse properties at a total sales price of SEK 882 million before deduction for deferred tax. The 18 properties dives...

Brightfolk A/S, a company controlled by Anders Holch Povlsen, has agreed to invest in Klarna through the acquisition of existing shares from the current shareholders General Atlantic, DST Global and Niklas Adalberth, all three of which remain as sharehol...

Saferoad Holding ASA was admitted to trading on the Oslo Stock Exchange on 29 May 2017. The Saferoad group was acquired by Nordic Capital Fund VII in 2008 and is a leading traffic safety and road infrastructure solutions provider in Northern, Central and...

Mengus' second fund, Mengus 2011, is selling the office property Duvan 6, by Mengus named Copper Building. The site leasehold, which is located in close proximity to Stockholm Central Station, comprises 9,700 square metres of leasable space and is being...

D. Carnegie & Co AB (publ) has entered into an agreement to acquire residential property portfolios in Arboga, Köping and Tranås from Fastighets AB Balder (publ). The property portfolios comprises 42 properties and 1,681 apartments. The agreed proper...

Hemsö has divested a portfolio of 35 real properties at different locations in Sweden to SBB i Norden AB. The total sales price for the portfolio amounts to approximately SEK 1.5 billion. The property portfolio comprises three retirement homes, four educ...

Summa Equity has invested in Ivbar Institute AB ("Ivbar"). Ivbar is a Swedish digital health company that has developed a big data analytics technology that enables improved management of healthcare through a focus on patient value. The platform improves...

Munters Group AB has been admitted to trading on Nasdaq Stockholm on 19 May 2017. The offering price was set at SEK 55 per share, corresponding to a market value of Munters of approximately SEK 10.1 billion. The offering, which comprised an offering to t...

E-commerce retailer Babyshop has entered into an agreement with Qliro Group AB (publ) regarding an acquisition of Lekmer AB. The transaction is subject to Babyshop having received no less than SEK 150 million in equity financing prior to closing. Babysho...

Kungsleden has implemented a rights issue of SEK 1.6 billion. Kungsleden is a real property company focused on the long-term ownership, management and development of commercial properties in selected growth regions in Sweden. The company is listed on Nas...

Duni AB has signed an agreement to acquire 80% of the shares in United Corporation Limited (trading as Sharp Serviettes). Sharp Serviettes is a leading manufacturer and supplier of napkins as well as hygien and serving products for food in New Zealand. S...

Summa Equity has invested in Pagero AB. Pagero AB develops and distributes cloud based communication services relating to purchase to pay, order to cash and logistic to pay processes. Summa Equity has become Pagero AB's largest shareholder through its in...

HEXPOL has on April 7, 2017 acquired the business of Valley Processing with a manufacturing facility in City of Industry, California, US. Valley Processing had a turnover of 34 MUSD in 2016 and have around 90 employees. The acquisition price amounts to a...

The Patent- and Market Court of Appeal has rejected a claim by the Swedish Competition Authority that Capio S:t Görans sjukhus, Sweden's only privately run hospital, entered into an anti-competitive agreement in connection with a procurement of medical s...

NAI Svefa has acquired the majority of the shares in Värderingsdata i Kungsbacka AB through the acquisition of shares from a minority of the shareholders and in connection with a share issue in kind in Värderingsdata. Värderingsdata is the broadest suppl...

Capio has signed an agreement to acquire all shares in Globen Ögonklinik through the parent company PanSyn Sweden AB (the transaction is subject to approval by Stockholm County Council). The clinic is specialised in ophthalmology and offers complex eye t...

Stena Bulk has acquired the remaining 50% of the shares in Stena Weco from WECO Shipping. Stena Weco was established at the beginning of 2011 as a joint venture between Stena Bulk and WECO Shipping. Stena Bulk now takes full ownership of Stena Weco. Sten...

Munters has acquired the business of Mumbai based Kevin Enterprises, specilised in design, manufacturing, supply and installation of mass transfer and separation equipment. Munters is a global leader and premium partner in energy efficient air treatment...

The Swedish state (through the National Negotiation on Housing and Infrastructure), the Stockholm County Council and the municipalities of Stockholm, Solna, Huddinge, Täby, Vallentuna and Österåker have on 21 April 2017 entered into an agreement for a su...

Sunstorm Holding AB (a company controlled by EQT V Limited which is advised by EQT Partners with Accent Equity 2003 fund as co-investor) has entered into agreements to divest shares corresponding to approximately 20 per cent of the total number of shares...

MTG has signed an agreement to sell its free-TV, pay-TV, digital and radio businesses in the Baltic region to Providence Equity Partners, a premier global asset management firm that is the owner of Bitė, the Lithuanian and Latvian mobile operator. The bu...

Perstorp Group has divested its Belgian site with its coating additives activities to Synthomer plc. The total consideration for the sale was EUR 78 million (subject to certain adjustments). Perstorp Belgium manufactures and markets a range of performanc...

In a EUR 900 million transaction, Pradera acquires 25 shopping centres from IKEA Centres. The properties are located in Germany, France, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. The gross lettable area in the 25 retail parks...

Starwood Capital Group and Vencom Property Partners have divested Bromma Blocks to CBRE GIP European Co-Investment Fund.   Bromma Blocks is a retail centre located in Stockholm with an approximate size of 57,000 square meters. Starwood Capital...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Summa Equity in connection with the structure, fund raising and establishment of its first fund, Summa Equity Fund I, which closed at its hard cap of SEK 4.5 billion, after being significantly oversubscribed. Summa Equity...

Accent Equity has acquired Stål och Hyrmaskiner i Varberg AB. The company, which is a family business in the second generation, rental machines and other equipment primarily for the construction industry. The company also establishes complete constructio...

Munters has acquired Atlanta based MTech Systems, a company specilized in software for the poultry and swine industries. Munters is a global leader and premium partner in energy efficient air treatment solutions, with manufacturing and sales in 30 countr...

Mobilis Kapitalförvaltning AB, which offers services within fund saving with three active funds mainly within pension saving, has been sold to Coeli Holding AB. Mobilis started its business in 2005 and is located in Helsingborg. Ragnar Lindqvist, partner...

Infranode has closed its second investment round. Infranode has in total raised SEK 3,35 billion, of which SEK 1,9 billion was raised in the second investment round. The investors that participated in the second round are the European Investment Bank (EI...

Twilio Inc has acquired Beepsend AB. Beepsend is a company purchasing, producing, selling and sending text messages on a global market through a way of communication called A2P, application to person. Twilio was founded in 2008 and has over 650 employees...

Telenor-owned Datametrix has, through its subsidiary Daxcom, entered into an agreement regarding purchase of Network Services. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close during the spring of 2017. Datametrix was establishe...

After Castellum's acquisition of Norrporten, the second-largest real estate deal in Sweden of all time, Castellum announced that divestments were to be made to finance the acquisition of Norrporten. Therefore, Castellum has during the autumn of 2016 ente...

Velocita AB has acquired Galdax AB from Galdax Holding AB and other owners.Galdax Holding AB reinvests in the new group in connection with the transaction. Galdax manufactures and distributes truck and bus tires on the Swedish market. Manufacturing is do...

A German pension fund advised by the asset manager Prime Capital AG has acquired the Ränsliden wind park in the municipality of Mellerud, Sweden, from the Norwegian developer Scanergy. The wind park comprises seven Siemens SWT-3.3/3.6-130 turbines, with...

Bridgepoint and Bonnier have agreed to divest Nordic Cinema Group (NCG) to AMC Entertainment at a value of some SEK 8.250 billion. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close during the spring of 2017.  NCG was formed...

Google has acquired Limes Audio AB.  Limes Audio, with offices in Umeå and Stockholm, builds solutions that remove the distracting noise, distortion and echoes that can affect online video and telephony meetings, improving the overall online confere...

Altor AB, jointly owned by Altor Fund IV (No. 1) AB and Altor Fund IV (No. 2) AB (together ”Altor Fund IV”), managed by Altor Fund Manager AB, has announced a recommended public cash offer to the shareholders of Transcom WorldWide AB. The total value of...

Scope Growth III L.P., the founders Mikael Söderlindh and Viktor Tell and the remaining current owners divest Happy Socks to Palamon Capital Partners. Happy Socks was founded in 2008 by Mikael Söderlindh and Viktor Tell and is today present with its colo...

Bankomat AB (Bankomat) and BDB Bankernas Depå AB (BDB) merge and will become one company operating in two separate business areas; cash machines and cash depot operations. The union will formally be done by the merger of the companies where Bankomat AB w...

On 25 November 2016, the board of directors of Viking Supply Ships AB resolved, pursuant to the authorisation granted by the annual general meeting, on a rights issue of approximately SEK 207 million and to carry out a directed share issue and offset sha...

Volvo Cars has issued preference shares in an amount of SEK 5 billion to a group of Swedish institutional investors. The preference shares may be repurchased or converted into common shares in the event of a future listing of the company. The group of in...

Göteborg Energi AB and Skövde Municipality have entered into an agreement with Torran Gas Holding AB regarding the transfer of Skövde Biogas AB to Torran Gas Holding AB. The transfer is expected to be completed in March 2017. Skövde Biogas produces and s...

After Castellum's acquisition of Norrporten, the second-largest property deal in Sweden of all times, Castellum announced that divestments would be completed to finance the acquisition of Norrporten. To carry this out, Castellum has during the autumn for...

Private equity funds Nordic Capital Fund VI and Apax France VII have agreed to divest their respective stakes in Unilabs to Apax IX, advised by Apax Partners LLP. The transaction marks the successful completion of the joint ownership between funds advi...

Accedo Invest AB has acquired all shares in Digiflare, Inc., a leading video UX company headquartered in Canada. The current top executives and sellers of Digiflare, Inc. will take on senior management positions within the merged organisation, alongside...

On Friday 25 November 2016, NorCell Sweden Holding 3 AB (publ) successfully issued SEK 2,250,000,000 senior unsecured notes carrying a fixed rate coupon of 3.5 per cent. due 2022. The net proceeds of the issue were used to redeem the issuer’s 2014/2019 s...

On 26 October 2016, Ellevio issued approx. SEK 3.3 billion, USD 941 million and EUR 50 million U.S. private placement notes. The issue constituted the largest private placement ever in the U.S. made by a European company. The issue of private placement n...

Bridgepoint Development Capital is to acquire a majority shareholding in Vitamin Well, a high growth, market-leading business in the functional drinks sector with sales in 28 countries. Established in Stockholm in 2006, the company develops, markets and...

European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS) has signed agreements regarding an in aggregate EUR 300 million line of credit with the European Investment Bank (EIB), the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and the Swedish Export Credit Corporation (SEK). The bridge fin...

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) (listed in Tokyo: 4004) has acquired GMM Nonstick Coatings (GMM), a specialty non-stick coating chemicals manufacturing company headquartered in Hong Kong, China, with operations in the USA, China and India. GMM's non-stick coating...

Mannheimer Swartling are advising Haldex in connection with Knorr-Bremse’s public tender offer to the shareholders of Haldex. Haldex is a leading producer and supplier of brake systems and air suspension systems for heavy trucks, trailers and buses. The...

In its first major competition law decision since it began operations in September, the newly established Patent- and Market Court of Appeal on 24 November 2016 turned down the Swedish Competition Authority's request to block Danish pipe manufacturer Log...

Intrum Justitia and Lindorff to combine, creating the industry leading provider of credit management services with local presence in 23 European countries and with more than 8,000 employees. Intrum Justitia will acquire Lindorff in exchange for newly iss...

A consortium consisting of IngaBritt och Arne Lundbergs Forskningsstiftelse, Postens Pensionsstiftelse 1996, Länsförsäkringar Kalmar län and P&E Persson AB acquires, through a transaction, the real estate properties where the Linnæus University’s exp...

Eurocommercial aquires C4 Shopping, under construction in Kristianstad. C4 Shopping, which includes a total of approximately 40,000 square meters, is expected to be completed by the end of 2018. The shopping centre is located next to the E22 road and is...

Skraken Förvaltning AB has agreed to divest Spectral Solutions AB to Hitachi High-Technologies Europe GmbH. Spectral Solutions supply solutions, products and services in relation to electron microscopy and surface science to the Nordic industry and resea...

Göteborgs Spårvägar has entered into an agreement with a consortium consisting of Bombardier Transportation and Vossloh Kiepe for the purchase and delivery of 40 trams together with documentation, training, spare parts and equipment etc. In addition to t...

Game developer Massive Entertainment (Ubisoft Entertainment Sweden AB) has acquired a property in Malmö to house their studio. Sweden-based Massive Entertainment is the developer behind the world’s most-sold computer game this year, Tom Clancy’s The Divi...

ABB has agreed to divest its global high-voltage cable business to NKT Cables at an enterprise value of approximately EUR 836 million. The business produces and supplies turnkey solutions with respect to high-voltage submarine and underground cables...

Silicon Valley based Glooko, Inc. and Diasend AB (publ), based in Gothenburg, have merged to enable in-clinic and remote diabetes management across 4,000 diabetes health systems, 23 countries and 15 languages worldwide. Glooko and Diasend are both known...

Hemsö Fastighets AB (publ) (“Hemsö”) made its debut issuance under the newly established EUR 3 billion EMTN programme on 9 September 2016. EUR 500 million of notes were issued with a tenor of ten years and a fixed rate coupon of 1 per cent. The notes are...

AAK AB (publ) has acquired California Oils Corporation (CalOils), which is based in Richmond, California. CalOils is the leading vegetable oils company on the U.S. west coast. The acquired business had revenues of approximately SEK 1 350 million in...

CapMan Nordic Real Estate, acting as lead investor, has together with Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company and Cavendo acquired Heron City from NIAM for approximately EUR 98 million. Heron City is an approximately 49,400 square meter landmark reta...

Starwood, a private investment firm with core focus on global real estate, and property developer Vencom, have divested six retail parks comprising approximately 150,000 square meters to Trophi Fastighets AB, owned by the Third AP Fund. The properties ar...

The aggregates company Sand & Grus AB Jehander has divested its business within Region West to Swerock AB, a company within the PEAB Group. Through the transaction Sand & Grus AB Jehander divested its quarries Kållered, Kilanda, Kuleskog and Fjär...

EDF Développement Environnement SA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the French Government controlled power company EDF SA, has signed an agreement with Studsvik AB (publ) to acquire Studsvik’s nuclear waste treatment business and facilities in Sweden and th...

Verdion Properties has secured land and entered into construction and lease agreements for a major logistics facility in Staffanstorp just outside Malmö. The new facility will comprise 27,000 square meters of building area and will be used by a leading G...

Loomis AB (publ)’s Danish subsidiary Loomis Danmark A/S has acquired 100 per cent of the shares in the Danish cash handling company Bankernes Kontantservice A/S (“BKS”) based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The enterprise value is approximately DKK 250 million,...

On 24 August 2016 Nordea completed the sale of certain credit default swaps; transferring credit risk on EUR 8.4 billion of its corporate loan exposures to a select number of investors. The risk transfer is achieved through a collateralised CDS structure...

Jungberg & Rothman Kvartersfastigheter has divested the Gasverket project to CA Fastigheter. Jungberg & Rothman Kvartersfastigheter will remain as a minority shareholder and the two parties will work together to carry out the project in collabora...

Stockholm County Council has, through Stockholm Public Transport (“SL”), awarded Stadler Bussnang AG an agreement to deliver new vehicles to Roslagsbanan. The agreement covers a total of 67 new vehicles, 22 vehicles in the initial order and 45 vehicles a...

Swedbank has entered into a framework agreement with IT services provider Capgemini, with the aim to establish a new IT platform for the group wide digitalisation of the bank’s loan processes. The platform will, amongst other things, enable the complete...

Lundin Petroleum has acquired Statoil’s 15 percent interest in the Edvard Grieg field in production area PL338, offshore Norway, and all associated interests including a nine percent interest in the Edvard Grieg oil pipeline and a six percent interest in...

SSAB AB (publ) has carried out a new issue of approximately SEK 5 billion before transaction costs with pre-emptive rights for the shareholders. SSAB is a Nordic and US-based steel company. SSAB offers value added products and services developed in close...

The real estate fund Rockspring and property developer Vencom has divested Värmdö Köpcentrum. Värmdö Köpcentrum, which houses about fifty stores, was acquired by the pension company Alecta. The property value at the transfer amounted to SEK 421 million....

DeTai New Energy Group has conditionally acquired 100% of the share capital in Emission Particle Solution Sweden AB, a Swedish company that holds a fuel additive capable of reducing fuel consumption and environmental impact. The agreed purchase price for...

iCON Infrastructure has agreed to acquire Gasnätet Stockholm AB and Stockholm Gas AB from AB Fortum Värme, Co-Owned with Stockholms Stad. Gasnätet Stockholm AB is the owner of the gas distribution network in the Stockholm area, and Stockholm Gas AB engag...

Safic-Alcan, a leading distributor of specialty chemicals with headquarter in Puteaux, France, has acquired the remaining 50 % of the share capital in Safic-Alcan Nordic, which now becomes a wholly owned subsidiary. Safic-Alcan Nordic is a Swedish compan...

Diaverum is one of the world's leading renal care providers. Originally founded in Sweden, today it has 9,000 employees, caring for close to 30,000 patients in 20 countries in Europe, Latin America, Middle East/Asia and Australia. Jiangsu Yueda Group Co....

Hemsö has acquired a second elderly care home in Darmstadt, Germany from a Luxembourg fund. The home is operated by Deutsches Rotes Kreuz. Hemsö is a property company that owns, manages and develops buildings for community services in Sweden and Germany....

Nord-Lock has acquired Expander System Sweden AB with wholly owned subsidiaries in Sweden, USA and Germany. The Expander Group is specialized in the design, manufacturing and sales of the Expander System, an expandable pivot pin system, for heavy machine...

SEB's housing fund, Domestica II, has acquired 300 rental apartments in the real estate properties Vallentuna-Åby 1:166 and Vallentuna-Åby 1:171 from Magnolia Bostad. The sales are made through company transfers at a price of about SEK 100 million. Upon...

SEB Private Equity Opportunity Fund III has acquired a majority stake in Accedo Broadband AB from inter alia Stiftelsen Industrifonden and Acacia Asset Management AB. As global market leader in TV application solutions, Accedo Broadband has since its inc...

Telia Company  has agreed to divest Sergel Group, its Nordic and Baltic credit management services (CMS) and debt purchase business, to Marginalen AB and Marginalen Bank Bankaktiebolag, for SEK 2,070 million (on a cash and debt free basis). Sergel h...

AxFlow AB, a company within the Axel Johnson group, has acquired Esspump AB, a supplier and developer of pumps and pumping systems. Esspump's customers operate within the chemical, mining, water and waste water, pulp and paper, energy and food and pharma...

Stampen Media Partner AB, a company within the Stampen Media Group, has divested OTW to Aller media. OTW was founded 1996 and is a content marketing company with focus on digital and printed content as well as content for television. In collaboration wit...

Probi USA, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Swedish probiotic company Probi AB (publ) (“Probi”), has entered into an agreement with the American company TNTGamble, Inc. (“TNT”) whereby Probi acquires TNT’s probiotic business Nutraceutix. The prelim...

The Berwin Group is a well known leading manufacturer of rubber compounds. The group has around 200 employees and an estimated annual turnover of approximately GBP 40 million. HEXPOL is a world-leading polymers group with strong global positions in advan...

eBay has acquired Expertmaker AB, which specializes in providing intelligent software solutions powered by artificial intelligence. Expertmaker has been a partner of eBay’s since 2010. The company’s employees will join eBay’s technology team and Expertma...

IK VII Fund has reached an agreement to acquire NeTel from Axcel and management. The transaction is subject to customary competition approval. Founded in 2000, NeTel has grown to become a leading Nordic service provider for communication and electrical n...

On Friday 27 May, 2016 Millicom International Cellular S.A. successfully listed a three year, SEK 2 billion, senior unsecured bond carrying a floating rate coupon (STIBOR + 3.30 per cent.) on Nasdaq Stockholm. The proceeds of the issue is to be used for...

Lammhults Design Group AB (publ) has acquired all shares in the furniture design company Ragnars Inredningar AB. Ragnars Inredningar, with its main office and production located in Forserum near Jönköping, Sweden, is a manufacturer of designed office fur...

Hoist Kredit AB (publ), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hoist Finance AB (publ), the parent company of the Hoist Finance group, has established an EUR 750,000,000 Euro Medium Term Note Programme, by registering an offering circular with the Irish Stock Exch...

Mannheimer Swartling assists Mblox, a leading application-to-person (A2P) mobile messaging provider based in the US processing more than 7 billion messages globally in 2015, in its sale to Swedish messaging provider CLX Communications AB (publ). The defi...

Mannheimer Swartling has assisted Corral Petroleum Holdings AB in its issuance of unsecured Senior PIK Toggle Notes consisting of SEK-notes with a principal amount of SEK 500 million and EUR-notes with a principal amount of EUR 570 million. The fixed rat...

Haldex and VIE Science and Technology has entered into a joint venture agreement with the aim of designing, developing, producing and selling electromechanical brake systems for commercial vehicles with an initial focus on the electrical bus market in Ch...

Resurs Holding lists on Nasdaq Stockholm Resurs Holding AB has been admitted to trading on Nasdaq Stockholm on 29 April 2016. The offering price was set at SEK 55 per share, corresponding to a market value of Resurs Holding of SEK 11 billion. The offering...

Insula AS, a company within the Kverva AS Group, has acquired Västkustfilé AB from Västkustfilé Förvaltning Aktiebolag. Västkustfilé AB was established in 1974. The company specialises in processing seafood products and fresh whitefish products. The comp...

Axel Johnson International, a part of the Axel Johnson Group, has through its subsidiary AxLoad entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire Cables y Eslingas' steel wire rope and lifting equipment distribution business. Cables y Eslingas is a par...

Gjensidige has agreed to acquire the Swedish insurance portfolio of Vardia Insurance Group. Gjensidige has also entered into an agreement to acquire Vardia Försäkring. Vardia Försäkring has about 125 employees and is e.g. a general agent for Vardia Insur...

In a decision of 21 April 2016, the Swedish Supreme Court clarified the meaning of section 2 of the Swedish Arbitration Act and confirmed that the provision entails that courts have authority to conduct a full review of an arbitral tribunal’s jurisdictio...

Trelleborg has signed an agreement to sell its shares in Vibracoustic GmbH to Freudenberg. The finalization of the transaction is expected in the second quarter of 2016, subject to approval by the relevant authorities. Through this transaction Trelleborg...

IKEA Industry has signed an agreement to divest IKEA Industry Latvia and 50 % of Incukalns Timber to Rettenmeier Baltic. IKEA Industry Latvia owns and operates a saw mill in Latvia and Incukalns Timber supplies the saw mill with logs. IKEA Industry was a...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Inwido AB (publ) in connection with its subsidiary Inwido Finland Oy’s signing of an agreement to acquire approximately 83% of the shares in the Finnish window and door company Värmelux Oy from CapMan and certain other sh...

Stora Enso, SCA, Smurfit Kappa and Fiskeby Board have agreed to divest their ownership in IL Recycling, a Swedish recycled materials company, to Stena Metall. The transaction is subject to customary competition approvals. Stora Enso, SCA, Smurfit Kappa a...

IAC/InterActiveCorp (“IAC”) has divested PriceRunner to NS Intressenter. PriceRunner, founded in 1999, is a price comparison site where consumers can find the lowest prices and compare millions of products. The company has operations and websites in Swed...

Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers has sold four shopping centers from its fund Nordic Retail Fund (NRF) to an international joint venture, led by Valad. The four shopping centers are Magasinet in Örnsköldsvik, Kulan in Karlskoga, Kvarnen in Mjölby and Axe...

Humana AB has been admitted to trading on Nasdaq Stockholm on 22 March 2016. The offering price was set at SEK 62 per share, corresponding to a market value of Humana of approximately SEK 3.3 billion. The offering, which comprised an offering to the gene...

Hemsö has (during the period December 2015 until March 2016)  acquired six elderly care homes in Wiesbaden, Taunusstein, Darmstadt, Hadamar and Bremen with a total value of approximately SEK 575 million. In total, the elderly care homes accommodate&...

The shares in GARO AB (publ) have on 16 March 2016 been admitted to trading on Nasdaq Stockholm. The listing included an offer by the company's owners, Lars Svensson, Jerzy Petersson and Stefan Jonsson Invest AB, to the general public in Sweden and quali...

Visma, a leading provider of business software, outsourcing services and services for accounting and administration in the Nordics, has announced a recommended public takeover offer to the shareholders of Fortnox. With approximately 115,000 customers, Fo...

Castellum has, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Fastighets AB Corallen, acquired 50% of the shares in CORHEI Fastighets AB. On 13 April 2015, Castellum acquired 50% of the shares in the company then known as Henry Ståhl Fastigheter AB (currently CORHE...

The shareholders in Zengun, including the founders Ulf Jonsson and Tobias Örnevik, divest a majority stake of the shares in Zengun to Segulah. The current owners will keep a substantial interest and continue their operative engagements within the company...

Hemsö has acquired an elderly care home in Södertälje. The value of the home, which is under construction, is estimated to amount to SEK 145 million when it has been constructed. The tenant is Attendo, who has signed a lease for 15 years.  Hemsö is...

Mannheimer Swartling has assisted Svensk Hypotekspension Fond 3 AB (publ) in its issuance of SEK 2 billion mortgage backed notes at a fixed interest rate. The notes are backed by a portfolio of so called equity release or reverse mortgage loans under the...

Travelstart, Africa’s largest online platform for booking flights, hotels and rental cars, has secured $40 million in funding from MTN and Amadeus Capital Partners. Travelstart was founded in Sweden in 1999 and the African part of the business was spun o...

Mylan, a leading global pharmaceutical company whose shares are traded on NASDAQ Global Select Market and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, has announced a recommended bid for Meda. Meda is a leading international specialty pharma company. Meda’s products are...

Mannheimer Swartling has assisted Darko Perván and certain family members, and their companies, who jointly are majority owners in Välinge International AB, in a transaction whereby they and the investment firm KKR will own 50 per cent of the shares, res...

Mannnheimer Swartling has assisted Nordisk Vindkraft in the sale of 80% of the shares in Våsberget Vindkraft AB to the French asset manager Mirova.The wind power park will produce 80GWh of green electricity annually, enough for the consumption of 32,000...

Automotive component specialist, AxDrive, which is owned by Axel Johnson International, has entered into an agreement to sell Trailereffekter and LVD Lastvagnsdelar. The two distributors of spare parts for heavy vehicles have been acquired by Europart, a...

Bong AB (publ) has acquired receivables from its creditor banks. Among other things, the implementation of the transaction involved issuing senior covered bonds for a total SEK 200 million, an offset issue of shares to the banks to cover part o...

Göteborg Energi AB (“GE”) has, following the completion of a public procurement process, awarded Tieto Sweden AB a contract covering the outsourcing of parts of the company’s IT operations as well as the procurement of a new business support system. The...

DNV GL has acquired all the shares in Gothia Power, from a shareholder group consisting of founders and employees of the company. Gothia Power provides advanced analysis and measurements for power production, power transmission and power consumption. Got...

The shares in Camurus AB (publ) have on 3 December 2015 been admitted to trading on Nasdaq Stockholm. The listing included an offer by the company and its principal shareholder, Sandberg Development AB, to the general public in Sweden and qualified inst...

Litorina IV L.P., Eton Innovation AB (the founding Davidson family) and the minority shareholders have entered into an agreement for the divestment of the premium men’s shirt and accessory manufacturer, Eton Group AB, to EQT Fund VII. Eton, headquartered...

Litorina IV L.P. (Litorina IV) has become the new majority owner of CarpetVista AB (CarpetVista). CarpetVista is one of the world's largest online carpet shops, offering more than 35 000 unique carpets. The company was previously wholly owned by its foun...

Litorina IV L.P. (Litorina IV) has become the new majority owner of KungSängen Produktion AB (KungSängen). KungSängen manufactures and sells beds and bedroom accessories and was previously wholly owned by the Gustafsson family who will retain a 25 per ce...

Altor Fund II GP Limited and the other shareholders have entered into an agreement to divest PIAB Group Holding AB to EQT Fund VII. The PIAB group develops and manufactures vacuum pumps, vacuum accessories, vacuum conveyors and suction cups for a variety...

The Swedish Western region - Västra Götalandsregionen (“VGR”) has, following the completion of a public procurement process, procured a service for the digitalisation of the pathology process within VGR. The digitalisation of the pathology process relate...

Ernströmgruppen AB, a private industrial conglomerate that develops and acquires companies within selected industrial sectors with future prospects, has acquired REC Indovent AB from Elof Hansson Holding AB. REC Indovent is an expert on indoor climate in...

Mälardalstrafik MÄLAB AB (MÄLAB) has entered into an agreement with the municipality of Eskilstuna pursuant to which the municipality has been assigned the responsibility to acquire land, plan, build, operate, maintain and finance a new depot located wit...

Gategroup has reached an agreement to acquire 100% ownership in Inflight Service Group from funds advised by Triton, a private equity company in the Nordic region, at an enterprise value of SEK 1.1 billion. The transaction is subject to the approval of t...

Göteborg Energi and Lidköping municipality have entered into an agreement with FordonsGas Sverige, a subsidiary of the French company Air Liquide, on the transfer of Lidköping Biogas to FordonsGas Sverige. The transfer is expected to be completed in Febr...

Nordic Capital Fund VIII acquires the majority of Greenfood Group, a leading supplier in the attractive market for healthy foods (fruits, vegetables and salads) in the Nordic region. Greenfood has a leading position within convenient healthy food and com...

Valora Holding AG has divested its trade division (Valora Trade), which is engaged in distribution of fast moving consumer goods. Valora Trade was acquired by Aurelius AG, a listed Germany-based private equity firm. The enterprise value of the transactio...

The Stockholm Public Transport Authority (Sw. Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, “SL”) has, following the completion of a public procurement process, awarded MTR an outsourcing contract for the operation of commuter trains in the greater Stockholm region. The c...

Scandic Hotels Group AB (publ) has been admitted to trading on Nasdaq Stockholm on 2 December 2015. The offering price was set at SEK 67 per share, corresponding to a market value of Scandic of approximately SEK 6.9 billion. The offering, which comprised...

SSNG Holding, ultimately owned by the Nordic investment firm Preato Capital and certain minority shareholders, has acquired Sales Support Nordic Group from certain individual shareholders.  Sales Support is the leading Nordic field sales compan...

The measurement technology group Hexagon, has acquired Camtech GmbH& Co KG. Camtech has been a distributor of Vero Software’s EdgeCAM solutions in Germany since 2003. Vero Software was acquired by Hexagon in 2014. The addition of  Camtech to the...

Kungsleden divests its remaining holdings in Nordic Modular Group, approximately 34.5 per cent of the shares of the company, to Inter IKEA Investments with a sales price equal to a valuation of the entire company of SEK 1.45 billion. The transaction is s...

Bufab has acquired 100 per cent of the shares in Apex Stainless Holdings Limited (Apex Stainless) - a privately-owned UK company, specializing in the distribution of stainless steel fasteners, mainly to UK-based customers. The base purchase price amounts...

Munters has acquired Reventa, a company specialized in climate control systems for livestock buildings. Reventa is headquartered in Horstmar, Germany, where sales, R&D and manufacturing also are located. Munters is a world-leading supplier of energy...

MAN Diesel & Turbo Sverige AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of MAN Diesel & Turbo SE (part of MAN and Volkswagen Group), acquires the marine fuel gas supply system business of Sweden based Cryo AB, part of the Linde Engineering Division and a manufa...

Rikshem has acquired residential properties in Haparanda, Umeå and Östersund from Akelius. The properties consist of approximately 1,700 apartments and the value of the properties is approximately SEK 1,9 billion. Rikshem is one of Sweden’s largest priva...

Flex (previously Flextronics) has divested its manufacturing unit in Ronneby, Sweden, to Orbit One. The unit comprises around 220 employees and will make Orbit One one of the largest contract manufacturers in Scandinavia after completion of the acquisiti...

TransAtlantic, a subsidiary of the listed company Viking Supply Ships, is divesting its container operations to X-Press Feeders. TransAtlantic is also divesting its ship management operations to AtoB@C Shipping. Viking Supply Ships is engaged in offshore...

Hemsö has acquired a sheltered housing in central Motala, Sweden, from Scandinavian Property Development and KIAB Fastigheter AB, together with Peab. The value of the real property under construction will amount to SEK 97 million after completion. The bu...

Polaris Private Equity (Polaris) and Byggmax Group AB (Byggmax) have entered an agreement whereby all the shares in Skånska Byggvaror Group AB (Skånska Byggvaror) are sold to Byggmax for SEK 741 million. In addition to funds managed by Polaris, the selli...

EU Court exempts bitcoin from sales tax The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that services including the digital currency bitcoin should be exempt from sales taxes within the 28-country bloc and that there is no reason to treat bitcoin dif...

Kungsleden AB (publ) has acquired properties in two Stockholm city districts for SEK 3 billion creating a new city cluster with a total leasable area of 96,000 square metres. The four properties acquired from Djurgårdsstadens Fastigheter AB are located i...

Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB has divested its Norwegian subsidiary Svenska Petroleum Exploration AS to Det norske oljeselskap ASA, listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, for a cash consideration of USD 75 million (on a cash and debt free basis). Svenska...

Investcorp has acquired POC, a revolutionary manufacturer of skiing and cycling helmets, gear and accessories, from Black Diamond for USD 65 million. Established in 2004 and headquartered in Sweden, POC is a global leader of innovative active outdoor per...

The ProSiebenSat.1 Group is further expanding its eCommerce business activities via the acquisition of Etraveli Holding AB through its investment subsidiary 7Travel. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, Etraveli was founded in 2007 and is a leading pan-European onl...

The Danish company Nautec A/S has acquired Watski AB with subsidiaries. Watski is the leading boat accessories wholesaler in Scandinavia. Nautec A/S is part of a family owned company group with headquarters in Denmark. The company group is well consolida...

The mutual life insurance company Skandia and Moderna Försäkringar have entered into an agreement whereby Skandia divests its activities in individual child insurance, accident insurance for adults and seniors, and pregnancy insurance to Moderna. Gross w...

AAK AB (publ) has acquired 51 percent of the shares of Kamani Oil Industries Pvt Ltd., one of the leading speciality and semi-speciality oils and fats companies in India. Kamini had revenues of approximately SEK 1 billion last year, with an annual volume...

Hemsö has completed the acquisition of nursing homes in Bochum-Wattenscheid and Leipzig from CMS Pflegewohnstift Bochum-Wattenscheid. Hemsö is a property company that owns, manages and develops buildings for community services in Sweden and Germany. Hems...

Logstor, owned by the private equity investment firm Triton, has acquired Powerpipe Systems AB from Jebo Industrier AS and certain minority holders. Powerpipe is a Swedish-based provider of pre-insulated pipe systems. The company is focused on ensuring c...

The Supreme Court announced 19 August 2015 their decision not to grant leave to appeal to the parties appealing the “Slussen” case. As a result, the City of Stockholm has secured the final permit under the Environmental Code for the reconstruction of Slu...

Klarna’s founders Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsson have divested a portion of their shares in the company to Northzone, Wellcome Trust and Wellington in a private placement process run by Morgan Stanley. The purpose of the t...

The Board of Hemtex has issued a statement on 28 August 2015 unanimously recommending shareholders in Hemtex to accept ICA Group’s public takeover offer. The total value of the offer announced on 25 August 2015 amounts to approximately SEK 719 million.&n...

Marlin Equity Partners acquired International Business Systems (IBS) in June 2015. IBS is a global leading provider of integrated ERP, WMS and SCM solutions used by customers to streamline, automate and accelerate their operations, and drive profitabilit...

Munters AB has entered into an agreement to divest Munters Keruilai Air Treatment Equipments (Guangdong) Co., Ltd. in China to Symphony Limited of India. The divestment is part of a strategic business restructuring being undertaken by Munters. Symphony L...

Kungsleden has acquired the office property Keflavik 1 in Kista Science City north of Stockholm for SEK 750 million from Nordika. The property has a total leasable area of 25,000 square metres. The transaction means that Kungsleden expands its office clu...

Lomond Invest AB has divested Lomond Industrier AB with subsidiaries to Volati Parts AB. Lomond Industrier is a group of companies in the Nordic hardware sector with its roots in Thomée-Hörle AB from 1928. The Lomond group includes, among others, Habo Gr...

Kronfågel Holding AB has agreed to acquire Lagerberg i Norjeby AB. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approval. Kronfågel Holding is a part of Scandi Standard, Scandinavia’s leading chicken producer serving the domestic and export markets...

Allianz Capital Partners has acquired the Mombyåsen wind park in the municipality of Sandviken from Arise Wind Farm 11 AB. The wind park will comprise 10 Vestas V126-3.3 MW turbines with a total height of maximum 190 metres per turbine. Sveaskog is the o...

JAB Holding has agreed to acquire Baresso Coffee A/S. Baresso, established in 2000, is Denmark’s largest coffee shop chain with 47 coffee shops across Denmark. JAB is a privately held global investment company focused on long-term investments in companie...

Volvo Cars has acquired 100% of the share capital of Polestar Holding AB and Polestar Performance AB. Polestar has since 1996 been the motorsport partner of Volvo Cars and in 2009 the companies commenced a cooperation relating to development of performan...

Munters has acquired HB Group, an international company that specializes in customized hygienic climate control systems for the food/dairy industries. HB Group has locations in the Netherlands and a joint venture in the Czech Republic. Munters is a globa...

JAB Holding has agreed to acquire Espresso House from Herkules Private Equity. Espresso House, established in 1996, is one of the leading branded coffee shop chains in the Nordics with more than 190 shops across Sweden and Norway. JAB is a privately held...

Volvo Cars is divesting its component plant in Floby, Sweden, to Amtek Group, a global manufacturer of automotive components. The Floby plant produces brake discs, wheel hubs and connecting rods for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The plant emplo...

Volvo Cars is divesting its component plant in Floby, Sweden, to Amtek Group, a global manufacturer of automotive components. The Floby plant produces brake discs, wheel hubs and connecting rods for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The plant emplo...

Hemsö and SveaNor have started a joint project development company with a potential project volume of SEK 4 billion. The company will manage SveaNor’s ongoing projects including, among others, building rights for the Life Sciences building at the main en...

Capio AB (publ) has been admitted to trading on Nasdaq Stockholm on 30 June 2015. The offering price was SEK 48.50 per share, corresponding to a market value of all shares issued by Capio of approximately SEK 6.8 billion. The offering, which consisted of...

Nordic Capital Funds VI and VII have agreed to divest Brink Group B.V., a leading manufacturer of towbars, to H2 Equity Partners Fund IV. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals. Brink is one of the global market leaders in towing sy...

Coor Service Management Holding AB (publ) has been admitted to trading on Nasdaq Stockholm on 16 June 2015. The offering price was set at SEK 38 per share, corresponding to a market value of all shares issued by Coor of approximately SEK 3.6 billion. The...

Nordic Capital’s portfolio company Europris has been approved for trading on Oslo Børs and been refinanced in connection with the listing. Nordic Capital Fund VII was the majority shareholder divesting in the offering. Europris is Norway’s largest discou...

Aspelin-Ramm Fastigheter AB has sold its subsidiary AR August B AB, comprising the property Gothenburg Högsbo 27:6, to FastPartner AB (publ). The property is a modern industrial building located in the Högsbo-Sisjön business district with a lettable area...

On 17 June 2015, the Swedish Supreme Court delivered its judgment in the case between The Absolut Company AB (formerly V&S Vin & Sprit AB) and Systembolaget AB. The case concerned the challenge of an arbitral award issued in 2012, in which The Ab...

The founders, LK Finans AB and minority shareholders have entered into an agreement to divest Teknikmagasinet (Teknikintressenter i Norden AB) to Segulah V L.P. Teknikmagasinet is a leading Nordic retailer with a wide assortment of value-for-money, high-...

AB Transitio has awarded Stadler Bussnang AG (Stadler) a procurement contract for the purchase and delivery of 33 Dosto double-decker trains and equipment and spare parts for the trains. In addition to the initial order, the contract includes an option t...

Orex Minerals Inc. and Agnico Eagle Mines Limited have entered into a joint venture agreement with respect to the development of Orex’s Barsele Project. In connection with the joint venture, Orex has sold a 55% ownership interest in the project to Agnico...

Rikshem and Ikano Bostad have jointly acquired the property where Telia’s headquarters are located in Farsta, Sweden, from RBS Nordisk Renting. The premises comprise approximately 100,000 square metres. Rikshem and Ikano Bostad plan to develop up to 3,00...

Stampen Media Partner AB, a company within the Stampen Media Group, has divested Mobiento to Deloitte. Mobiento was founded 2001 with a focus on mobility and mobile services. In recent years, the company has established itself as one of the market leader...

The investment fund Accent Equity 2012 has agreed to acquire a 65% stake in Akademibokhandeln from Kooperativa Förbundet (KF). Stiftelsen Bokförlaget Natur & Kultur and Killbergs Bokhandel AB, the two largest owners besides KF, will stay on as minori...

BioInvent International AB (publ), a research-based pharmaceutical company focused on developing antibody drugs, has carried out a rights issue with preferential right for the company’s shareholders. The rights issue, which was oversubscribed, will provi...

The Nord-Lock Group has acquired the rights to Grower Twin-Lock® from Growermetal SRL. In connection with the acquisition, Nord-Lock has entered into a strategic production and technical development agreement for the manufacture of wedge-locking washers....

UK biotech group Circassia Pharmaceuticals has made a public offer to acquire the Swedish medical technology company Aerocrine. The offer values all outstanding shares in Aerocrine at approximately SEK 1.78 billion. Circassia Pharmaceuticals plc is a spe...

IBM Sverige AB has agreed to divest its office in Kista, Sweden, to the real property holding and development companies Areim and Skanska. The divestment is pending Stockholm municipality’s approval of a land appointment agreement and adoption of a new z...

Leica Geosystems acquires technet-rail Leica Geosystems AG has acquired technet-rail 2010 GmbH, a software development firm specialising in geospatial big data applications for the rail transportation industry. Technet-rail is headquartered in Berlin, Ger...

Kungsleden issues SEK 375 million senior unsecured notes  Kungsleden AB (publ) has issued SEK 375 million senior unsecured notes due 2017 at a fixed interest rate of 1.20 percent. Kungsleden intends to apply for listing of the notes on NASDAQ Stockho...

Bank syndicate provides SEK 5 billion financing to ICA Gruppen A bank syndicate comprising Crédit Agricole, Danske Bank, DNB, Nordea, SEB, Handelsbanken and Swedbank entered into a Swedish law governed SEK 5 billion revolving credit facility agreement wit...

The Stockholm-based private equity firm Mengus has, through its first fund, divested the property referred to as “Solna Gate” (Aprikosen 2) in Solna to Klövern for slightly more than SEK 1.2 billion. The total lettable area amounts to around 35,000 squar...

Ratos AB (publ) and Bonnier Holding AB have agreed to divest Nordic Cinema Group Holding AB to the private equity fund Bridgepoint Europe V at an enterprise value of some SEK 4.7 billion. Bonnier will remain as a 30% co-owner after the transaction. The t...

Proffice Group has divested its aviation division to OSM Aviation AS in Norway. Proffice Aviation has been responsible for staffing the Norwegian airline for the last four years, primarily with cabin crew. Proffice Group is one of the Nordic region’s lar...

Castellum and Heimstaden have completed a transaction involving property values worth SEK 2.4 billion, comprising 27 properties totalling 186,668 square metres in Norrköping, Linköping, Örebro and Solna, Sweden. Via its wholly owned subsidiary Fastighets...

Infinera Corporation has announced a recommended public offer to the shareholders of Transmode AB to tender all their shares in Transmode to Infinera. The total offer consideration consists of a mixture of cash and shares of common stock in Infinera, and...

Stampen Media Group, MittMedia and Eskilstuna-Kuriren have agreed to demerge the formerly jointly owned Liberala Tidningar media group. Stampen Media Group assumes ownership of the printing operations, V-TAB, Scandinavia’s largest printing group company....

Ratos’s subsidiary Arcus-Gruppen is acquiring Modern Fluids Oy, one of Finland’s leading wine importers through group company Vingruppen. After the acquisition, the group’s market share in Finland will significantly increase and amount to approximately 1...

Hexagon AB, through various subsidiaries within its Metrology division, has agreed to acquire Q-DAS Group, an international software company in Statistical Process Control (SPC) solutions for industrial manufacturing. Based in Germany, Q-DAS has offices...

Kungsleden has acquired one property in Kista Science City and four properties in Högsbo in Gothenburg, two growth markets where Kungsleden at present has a strong position. The combined purchase price amounts to SEK 676 million. In Kista Science City, K...

Cellwoodgruppen, a privately held Swedish industrial group, has divested its ownership in A.K. Eriksson to US-based USNR, a provider of solutions for wood processors in the plywood and panel, solid wood, and engineered wood sectors, and now the largest s...

Consilium AB (publ) has issued SEK 600 million senior unsecured notes with a total volume of up to SEK 900 million. The notes are due in 2020, carry a floating interest rate of 5.75 percentage units above 3-month STIBOR and have been issued partially for...

Allianz Capital Partners has acquired the Sörby wind park in the municipalities of Ljusdal and Bollnäs from Kraftö. The wind park will comprise 37 Vestas V117-3.3 MW turbines with a total capacity of 122 MW. It will be one of Sweden’s largest on-shore wi...

Altor Fund IV has today announced that it has acquired 6.4 million shares in Transcom WorldWideAB (publ) from Investment AB Kinnevik. The shares correspond to 24.5% of the shares outstanding in Transcom and were purchased at an aggregate price of SEK&nbs...

HeidelbergCement Northern Europe (HCNE) and KB Gruppen Kongsvinger (KBG) have agreed to merge Abetong and Contiga, the precast concrete activities of the two companies, respectively. The Abetong and Contiga brands will continue to operate in parallel in...

A consortium consisting of Swedish national pension funds Första AP-fonden (AP1), Tredje AP-fonden (AP3), Swedish mutual insurance and pension savings company Folksam, and Borealis Infrastructure, an international investor in large-scale infrastructure p...

Valedo has acquired Rapunzel of Sweden in partnership with the management team and board of Rapunzel of Sweden. Valedo is a Swedish private equity group investing in small and mid-size companies in the Nordic region. Rapunzel of Sweden is a rapidly growi...

Real property company Norrporten has sold its three properties in HafenCity in Hamburg city center to Pembroke Real Estate. The divestment is part of Norrporten’s strategy to focus on the Swedish market and Copenhagen. The three properties, Hamburg Ameri...

The Nordic investment fund Axcel III has agreed to divest LGT Logistics to Litorina. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory review and is expected to close in April 2015. LGT Logistics, with an annual turnover amounting to approximately SEK 7...

GlaxoSmithKline has divested its global oncology business to Novartis for USD 16 billion and has at the same time acquired Novartis' global vaccines business (excluding influenza vaccines) for USD 5.25 billion. The transaction between the parties has als...

Bufab Holding has acquired Flos, a leading Dutch C Parts and components supplier. Bufab is a trading company that offers its customers a full-service solution as supply chain partner for sourcing, quality control and logistics for C-Parts (screws, nuts,...

Dustin listed on Nasdaq Stockholm Dustin Group AB (publ) has today been admitted to trading on Nasdaq Stockholm. The listing included an offer by the company and its principal owner, Altor Fund II GP Limited, to the general public in Sweden and qualified...

Canon Inc. has announced a recommended public cash offer to the shareholders in the Swedish company Axis Aktiebolag to tender all their shares in Axis to Canon. The total value of the offering amounts to approximately SEK 23.6 billion. Canon, with its he...

San Sac has acquired the Tomra Compaction division from Tomra, a company listed on Oslo Børs. Tomra Compaction develops, manufactures and markets a wide product range of balers and compactors for recyclable materials under the name “Orwak”. San Sac was a...

Vontobel enters the Swedish market for structured products by issuing and listing some 350 different types of certificates and warrants to Swedish investors. Vontobel is a globally oriented Swiss private banking group headquartered in Zurich. Vontobel sp...

Göteborg Energi has entered into an agreement with the muncipality of Lerum, whereby the municipality acquires Göteborg Energi AB’s shares in Lerum Energi AB. As a result of the agreement, the muncipality will be the sole shareholder of the company. The...

The Land and Environment Court of Appeal at Svea Court of Appeal has on 21 January 2015 announced its judgment on the permit required for the reconstruction of the Slussen area, located in the heart of Stockholm between Old Town and Södermalm, connecting...

Eolus Vind AB, one of the leading wind power developers in Sweden, has agreed to sell 29 wind turbines in southwestern Sweden to Swiss electric utility ewz for EUR 95 million. The 60-MW deal is the single largest in the history of Eolus. Founded in 1990,...

JCE Group AB has sold its wholly owned US subsidiary Green Circle Bio Energy, Inc. to Enviva Holdings, LP. The transaction required approvals from both US and European competition authorities, which were granted in December 2014. Green Circle was founded...

Securitas AB has signed a new bank loan agreement (Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Facility) with its core relationship banks. The new facility is initially for a five year period, with the possibility to extend for a further two years, and is for USD 55...

Vigmed Holding AB has completed a rights issue raising approximately SEK 56 million. Vigmed is a medical technology company that develops, produces and sells products for elimination of needlestick injuries in the health care sector primarily for the Eur...

The Swedish investment company Proventus has divested renowned Swedish toy company BRIO AB to the Ravensburger Group, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of puzzles, games and activity products. Proventus has been the main owner of BRIO for over ten ye...

Eiendomsfond Tyskland I AS (EFT), a fund managed by IPI Management AS, has divested its portfolio comprising 43 residential properties in Berlin to the ADO and Harel groups from Israel for EUR 127.5 million. The Norway-based IPI Group is focused on setti...

The management and founders of AddPro have acquired business areas of AddPro from the European private equity company Perusa in a management buyout (MBO). AddPro, which is a leading company within IT infrastructure and security, comprises three business...

The majority interest in Avinode, the world’s leading marketplace for buying and selling air charter online, has been acquired by Multi Service Technology Solutions, Inc., a leader in aviation management software technology and card processing solutions....

Absolent Group AB has acquired Avani Environmental International Inc., a company based in Raleigh, NC, United States providing air purification products on the US market. Avani Environmental International Inc. is an air purification company that represen...

HEXPOL has acquired the business of Portage Precision Polymers, Inc. for USD 13.2 million. Portage Precision Polymers, founded 2002, with two manufacturing facilities in Ohio (Ravenna and Mogadore), US, had a turnover of USD 29 million in 2013. HEXPOL is...

HEXPOL has signed an agreement to acquire RheTech Thermoplastic Compounding for USD 112 million. RheTech, with close to 50 years’ experience in the business, has four facilities in Whitmore Lake and Fowlerville, Michigan, in Sandusky, Ohio and in Blacksb...

Stena Maritime AG has sold its shares in Paradise Tankers Corp. to its Greek joint venture partner Paradise Group Holdings Inc. Paradise Tankers Corp. has in connection therewith sold the vessels Aspropyrgos, Stena Chiron and Stena Chronos. Stena is one...

Castellum’s wholly owned subsidiary Fastighets AB Briggen has divested two properties in Malmö to MKB Fastighets AB for SEK 237 million. The main property comprises 40,500 square metres of storage, office, industrial and mixed-use facilities for, among o...

Vattenfall and Skandia are jointly investing almost SEK 2 billion to set up four wind parks in Sweden with a total output of 141 MW. This is the first time that Vattenfall invites an external investor for a wind power investment. The four wind power park...

Stampen Media Partner AB, a company within the Stampen Media Group, has divested its communications agency Appelberg Group Publishing AB to Media Planet International AB. Appelberg is one of Sweden's leading channel independent providers of content marke...

The Swedish e-commerce retailer Babyshop has acquired its British competitor AlexandAlexa to form a leader in the premium segment for kids’ e-commerce. Together, the two companies will form The Luxury Kids Group, which is expected to reach four times the...

Kungsleden AB has acquired Kista One and three additional office properties, located in Kista Science City, from Areim. The property portfolio has an underlying property value of just over SEK 2 billion. The total leasable area amounts to 73,000 square m...

Proventus Capital Partners has completed raising its third fund, Proventus Capital Partners III, at the cap of approximately SEK 12 billion. Investors in Proventus Capital Partners III include public and corporate pension funds, insurance companies, foun...

The Stockholm Public Transport Authority (Sw. Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, “SL”) has, following the completion a public procurement process, entered into an agreement with Nobina to outsource the operation of public bus transport in the Stockholm regions...

Thule Group lists on Nasdaq Stockholm Thule Group AB (publ) has been admitted to trading on Nasdaq Stockholm on 26 November 2014. The offering price was set at SEK 70 per share, corresponding to a market value of all shares issued by Thule Group of SEK 7....

Hemsö has acquired an elderly care home in Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany, from a UK-based investment fund and entered into a long term lease with the home’s operator Caritasverband Stadt Duisburg e.V. Hemsö is a property company that owns, manages and devel...

Langley Holdings has agreed to acquire DruckChemie, a German print chemicals group that went into administration in September. Merger clearance has been granted and the transaction is expected to be completed before the end of the year. DruckChemie, with...

The Australian telecommunications company Telstra has acquired Videoplaza AB via Ooyala, Telstra’s recently acquired streaming video distribution platform in the United States. Videoplaza was established in 2007 and is a leader in video advertising techn...

On 14 October 2014, Geberit announced an all-cash SEK 9.7 billion public offer for Sanitec, a company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. JP Morgan is acting as financial advisor to Geberit in connection with the transaction and providing debt financing for...

AAK has divested its biolubricants business, Binol, to Quaker Chemical, a leading global provider of process fluids and chemical specialties. AAK’s Binol business is a leading provider of vegetable-based biolubricants to the metal working, sawmill, and f...

Castellum’s subsidiary Fastighets AB Corallen has divested a real property portfolio comprising 53 properties in southern Sweden to Hemfosa Fastigheter for approximately SEK 1.9 billion. The transaction also includes a transfer by Castellum subsidiary Ek...

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has entered into a facilities agreement with a project company owned by a fund managed by BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, to provide the project company with financing for the construction of the 46.2 MW...

Further to the Supreme Administrative Court’s ruling and decision on 5 November 2014 regarding the taxation of carried interest in private equity funds, the Swedish Tax Agency has decided that it will not continue its legal proceedings against Swedish ad...

Kungsleden divests 65 per cent of Nordic Modular Group to Inter IKEA Investments Kungsleden divests 65 per cent of Nordic Modular Group to Inter IKEA Investments with a sales price equal to a valuation of the entire company of SEK 1.3 billion. The transac...

Stampen divests Sports Media to Traveas Stampen Media Partner has agreed to divest  Stampen Sports Media to Traveas. The sale is part of Stampen’s decision to focus on target markets and core businesses. The transaction is expected to be completed in...

Allianz Capital Partners has acquired the Sättravallen wind park in the municipality of Kristinehamn from Sättravallen Vindkraft AB. The wind park will comprise of 16 Vestas V126-3.3 MW turbines with a total capacity of 52.8 MW and a total height of maxi...

Kungsleden AB (publ) has implemented a rights issue of SEK 1.6 billion with pre-emptive rights for the shareholders. Kungsleden is a Swedish real property company, listed on NASDAQ Stockholm since 1999, with a real property portfolio consisting of commer...

Göteborg Energi and DONG Energy have agreed to divest FordonsGas Sverige AB to French Air Liquide. The sale is part of Göteborg Energi and DONG Energy’s respective decisions to focus on their core businesses. The transaction is expected to be completed i...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Galecto Biotech AB, together with the Galecto shareholders, have entered into an agreement that provides Bristol-Myers Squibb the exclusive option to acquire Galecto Biotech AB and gain worldwide rights to its lead asset...

The investment fund Accent Equity 2012 has acquired San Sac from Priveq Investment Fund III and EnviroPac from its founder Rolf Harald Christensen. San Sac and EnviroPac are two leading Nordic waste sorting and containment equipment solutions companies,...

The Ulla Åberg estate has signed an agreement to divest Hugo Åbergs Fastighetsförvaltning to Akelius Fastigheter. The transaction includes eight real properties in Malmö comprising more than 2,000 residential apartments and about 150 commercial units, in...

Castellum’s wholly owned subsidiary Fastighets AB Briggen has divested the Hansa shopping mall in central Malmö to Areim. Hansan consists of two properties comprising 40,500 square metres of retail, office, garage, residential and education facilities. T...

Givesom has launched an online service to enable individuals to make small monthly donations to a number of international and well-established charities. The various organisations are grouped by purpose: Poverty and Humanitarian Aid, Human Rights and Envi...

HEXPOL has signed an agreement to acquire the VIGAR Rubber Compounding business within Grupo Vigar from the founders’ families for a purchase price of approximately EUR 19 million. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals.VIGAR Rubber...

Hemsö has acquired an elderly care home in Aachen, Germany, for SEK 100 million. Hemsö has entered into a long term lease with the home’s operator CMS Dienstleistungen GmbH.Hemsö is a property company that owns, manages and develops buildings for communit...

Infranode has launched Infranode I, an investment platform which will focus on making long term infrastructure investments primarily in the Nordic region. Infranode I, which is based on a Swedish AB-structure, has raised SEK 1.45 billion in initial commit...

Hexagon AB has signed a EUR 2.0 billion Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility agreement with a syndicate of banks. The new credit facility will be used to refinance existing facilities as well as for general corporate purposes.Hexagon is a leading globa...

SEB Private Equity Opportunity Fund III and LK Finans (part of the Lagerstedt & Kranz group) have agreed to acquire Norvatek, previously part of the S:t Eriks group, from amongst others Segulah III L.P. and PEAB Industri AB. Norvatek is a leading play...

Ratos AB has listed Inwido AB, Europe’s largest supplier of innovative, environmentally adapted windows and doors, on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm on 26 September 2014.Ratos AB was the selling shareholder in the offering made to Swedish and international institut...

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) has set up Domestica Bostäder II, a real estate fund which will focus on making investments in residential properties located in the southern and middle parts of Sweden. Domestica Bostäder II is a follow-up fund to D...

Arise AB (publ) has issued SEK 350 million senior unsecured green bonds due 2017 at a floating interest rate of 6.00 percentage units above 3-month STIBOR, for the purpose of refinancing its outstanding bond loan. Arise intends to apply for listing of the...

The owners of Mojang, maker of the hit video game Minecraft, have agreed to sell Mojang to Microsoft for USD 2.5 billion. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory review and is expected to close in late 2014.Mojang is an independent game develop...

Alfa Laval has established a Euro Medium Term Note (EMTN) programme and raised EUR 800 million in the corporate bond market. This long-term financing replaces the bridge loan taken in connection with the acquisition of Frank Mohn AS. The bonds will be lis...

AAK has decided to construct a speciality and semi-speciality edible oils factory in Zhangjiagang along the Yangtze river delta. The investment is expected to amount to approximately SEK 400 million over a two-year period. The start-up of the new factory...

The Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP6) has made a SEK 100 million investment in Swedish Tobii Technology, a leading provider of eye tracking technology used for a broad range of computer, analytics and assistive applications. Tobii was founded in 2...

The Swedish refrigeration group, Beijer Ref AB, is acquiring the remaining 49 per cent of the shares in the Italian SCM Frigo Group, a leading manufacturer in Europe of refrigeration units based on environment-friendly carbon dioxide technology.SCM Frigo,...

DDM Holding AG has been admitted to trading on NASDAQ OMX First North on 5 August 2014. The company raised a total SEK 130 million through a private placement mainly to qualified institutional buyers in Sweden and abroad to subscribe for newly issued shar...

A consortium of buyers comprising IngaBritt och Arne Lundbergs Forskningsstiftelse, EAB Fastigheter AB and Defakon AB as main owners have acquired a real property from Sveafastigheter where the shopping mall “Modehuset” is situated. The shopping mall, loc...

Ringfeder Power Transmission GmbH, a subsidiary of VBG Group AB, has acquired Tschan GmbH from the former sole owner.Ringfeder Power Transmission is a world-leading supplier of products in the areas of mechanical power transmission and energy and shock ab...

HEXPOL has signed an agreement to acquire the business of Kardoes Rubber Co., Inc for USD 31.8 million.Kardoes Rubber, founded in 1988, with a manufacturing facility in LaFayette, Alabama, had a turnover of USD 43 million in 2013 and has around 90 employe...

Stockholm Transport (SL) has entered into an agreement with Jernhusen AB (publ) pursuant to which Jernhusen has been assigned the responsibility to acquire land, plan, build, operate, maintain and finance a new depot for commuter rail services in Stockhol...

AAK has signed an agreement to acquire Frita, a market leading brand in the frying oil segment in Turkey, from Unilever. The acquisition is an add-on to the Unipro acquisition made during the third quarter of 2013.AAK is one of the world’s leading produce...

Altor and Investor have agreed to divest the majority of their holdings in Lindorff, a leading European debt collection company, to Nordic Capital Fund VIII for an enterprise value of EUR 2.3 billion. Altor and Investor will retain a maximum EUR 315 milli...

Altor has closed its fourth fund, Altor Fund IV, at its target and hard cap of EUR 2 billion. Altor Fund IV will have its legal domicile in Sweden and is based on a Swedish AB-structure where the investors will invest through loan instruments (Sw. kapita...

ÅF has divested its Russian subsidiary Lonas Technologia to AlmazInvest, a Russian private equity firm. The transaction was conducted as a controlled auction.The ÅF Group is a leading technical consulting company based in Europe offering qualified service...

AAK has acquired Fabrica Nacional de Grasas S.A. (FANAGRA), a Colombian company that specializes in vegetable oils and fats for the bakery segment. The company has 155 employees and had revenues of approximately SEK 270 million last year. AAK is one...

Kungsleden AB (publ) continues to streamline its property portfolio and has sold 39 properties to NP3 for SEK 760 million. The properties largely comprise industrial and warehousing facilities, with total leasable area of approx. 144 100 square metres.Kun...

Hemsö has recently acquired elderly care homes in Berlin, Cologne and Dresden with a total value of approximately SEK 285 million. In total, the homes accommodate approximately 335 residents and include 40 service apartments.The nursing home in Berlin is...

TeliaSonera has agreed to acquire Tele2’s operations in Norway at an enterprise value of SEK 5.1 billion.The transaction will increase TeliaSonera’s mobile subscription base in Norway from 1.6 million to 2.7 million. In connection with the acquisition, Te...

The Swedish property group Akelius has agreed to divest a portfolio of residential properties in Enköping, Sweden to BroGripen. The portfolio comprises three properties consisting of approximately 465 apartments and 400 parking spaces.The BroGripen group...

Spar Nord A/S has agreed to divest its Swedish leasing activities to PICAN AB. The transaction comprises leasing commitments at an approximate total value of SEK 450 million. Spar Nord was founded in 1824 and is today one of Denmark’s major banks. PICAN A...

ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG has divested its Swedish shipyard activities ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AB (TKMS AB, formerly Kockums) to defence and security company SAAB for SEK 340 million. The divestment is in line with the Swedish government’s...

LKAB is being advised by Mannheimer Swartling in connection with the urban transformation of Kiruna and Malmberget in northern Sweden. LKAB, which is wholly owned by the Swedish state, extracts and processes iron ore for the global steel market. The Group...

AB Transitio has signed framework agreements with Construcciones Y Auxiliar De Ferrocarriles (CAF), Bombardier Transportation Sweden AB (Bombardier) and Stadler Bussnang AG (Stadler) under which CAF, Bombardier and Stadler are pre-selected as suppliers of...

AAK has signed new committed credit facilities which will replace existing credit facilities and be used to finance current operations and potential acquisitions. The credit facilities consist of a five year club loan facility of EUR 400 million (approx....

Nordic Capital Fund VIII invests in AniCura, one of the leading Nordic operators of companion animal hospitals and veterinary clinics. AniCura is currently owned by a large number of staff, the Foundation Djursjukhus i Stor-Stockholm and the Swedish inve...

VLT AB, a company within the Stampen Media Group, has divested Lokaltidningen Mitt i Stockholm AB to the private equity fund Segulah IV. The transaction is subject to approval by the competition authority and is expected to close later this summer. Lokalt...

GE Capital has agreed to divest GE Money Bank, its consumer finance business in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, to Banco Santander for approximately EUR 700 million after a pre-closing dividend removing excess capital and Santander further assuming GE Money B...

Volvo Car Corporation has entered into a global marketing agreement with an international advertising agency for a worldwide supply of advertising services. The general objectives of the agreement are to increase Volvo Car Corporation’s sales of cars and...

Golden Heights AB issued today, 18 June 2014, a five year, SEK 400 million, senior secured high yield bond carrying a floating rate coupon (STIBOR + 4.75 per cent.) under Swedish law distributed to investors across the Nordics. The security granted consis...

Com Hem has been admitted to trading on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm Large Cap on 17 June 2014. The company raised a total SEK 5.7 billion by offering the public in Sweden and qualified institutional buyers in Sweden and abroad to subscribe for newly issued share...

Memnon Networks has completed the acquisition of Unifaun AB to create the largest Nordic supplier of transportation management systems.Memnon Networks is majority-owned by the international private equity group Bridgepoint. With the completion of this add...

Scandic is increasing its presence in Germany by taking over the Alsterhof Hotel in Berlin. The Alsterhof Hotel, which will be changing its name to Scandic Berlin Kurfürstendamm on 1 September 2014, has approximately 200 rooms, conference facilities and i...

Duni has acquired the Paper+Design Group from equity partner HANNOVER Finanz Group and management. Paper+Design is a manufacturer of premium designed paper napkins and other tableware products based in the eastern part of Germany and has approximately 200...

European Spallation Source ESS AB has been granted a permit by the Swedish Environmental Court to start construction of the European Spallation Source facility in Lund, Sweden. The decision allows for construction to start before the judgment has gained l...

Swedish property company Hemsö Fastighets AB has signed an agreement with Niam to acquire a portfolio of judiciary premises in a transaction valued at approximately SEK 2 billion. The properties are located in Stockholm, Solna, Lund and Malmö and the main...

The Dufry group has entered into an agreement to acquire the Nuance group for approximately USD 1.7 billion.  Dufry is a leading global travel retailer operating around 1,400 duty-free and duty-paid shops in, inter alia, airports, cruise lines and s...

E.ON has completed the divestment of 26 district heating power plants located throughout Sweden to Solør Bioenergi, a Norwegian industrial group specialized in wood-based bioenergy. E.ON is major investor-owned energy supplier with facilities across Europ...

Polaris Private Equity has entered into an agreement to divest the IT security and infrastructure business AddPro AB to the European private equity firm Perusa.Polaris acquired a majority shareholding in the Swedish AddPro in 2005 and the company has expe...

Mandalay Resources Corporation and Elgin Mining Inc. have entered into an arrangement agreement pursuant to which Mandalay will acquire Elgin for consideration consisting of cash and shares. The total transaction value is approximately CAD 70 million (app...

Intersnack Group GmbH & Co KG has acquired the salted snacks manufacturer Estrella Maarud from Herkules Private Equity Fund II.Estrella Maarud is a leading manufacturer and supplier of branded salted snacks in the Nordic and Baltic countries, includin...

Global risk adviser, insurance and reinsurance broker Willis acquires 75% of the shares in leading financial advisor Max Matthiessen for SEK 1,357 million and becomes new principal owner of the company in a deal which sees Altor Fund III sell its 50% stak...

Stora Enso has acquired 405 shares in Bergvik Skog, a Swedish forest company, from SPP Livförsäkring for SEK 2.2 million per share, or in total SEK 891 million (EUR 99 million). The transaction increases Stora Enso’s shareholding from 43.26% to 49% in the...

In the course of a Series B funding round, Zobito AB acquired a minority share in Treasury Intelligence Solutions GmbH (TIS), together with an option to subscribe to additional shares going forward.TIS offers medium-sized and large enterprises a smart pay...

Stockholm County Council (SCC) has entered into a comprehensive function based delivery and service agreement with Philips AB (Philips) regarding the delivery, installation, maintenance, updating, upgrading and replacement of medical imaging equipment suc...

Länsförsäkringar Fondliv Försäkringsaktiebolag, SEB, Skandia and SPP have acquired the insurance administrator FörsäkringsGirot. The objective with the acquisition is to create an open and common industry standard. FörsäkringsGirot provides a cost efficie...

AB Industrivärden has issued SEK 4.4 billion senior unsecured bonds due 2019 exchangeable into existing ordinary shares of ICA Gruppen AB, one of the Nordic region’s leading retail companies.The bonds will carry a 5 year maturity and will not bear interes...

U.S.-based Beijer Electronics Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Beijer Electronics, a Swedish publicly traded corporation, has divested its US Vehicle business to Micronet Ltd, a subsidiary of Micronet Enertec Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQCM: MICT).Beijer E...

Outotec has acquired the business and intellectual property rights of Republic Alternative Technologies, Inc., a premium coated titanium anode engineering and fabrication company based in Ohio.Outotec Oyj, a company listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, provides...

Lexmark International Technology S.A, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lexmark International, has announced a public offer to the shareholders of ReadSoft.Lexmark, which sells laser printers and imaging software, is offering SEK 40.05 per share in Readsoft, w...

Listed Swedish property company Kungsleden AB (publ) has acquired properties in Malmö from Profi I Fastigheter. The acquisition comprises two properties in the Norra hamnen area of Malmö with a leasable area of 9,200 square metres.Kungsleden was advised b...

Listed Swedish property company Kungsleden AB (publ) is selling three residential properties to Swedish property company M2 Gruppen. All of the properties are located in the centre of the southern Swedish city of Växjö. The purchase price is SEK 185 milli...

Arise AB (publ) has issued SEK 1.1 billion senior secured green notes due 2019 at a floating interest rate of 3.00 percentage units above 3-month STIBOR. Arise intends to apply for listing of the notes on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.This is the first senior secu...

On 3 April 2014, Meltwater announced a cash offer to the shareholders of Cision AB (publ) with a total offer value for all shares in Cision of approximately SEK 895 million. The competing bidder, controlled by the US financial sponsor GTCR, thereafter inc...

On 21 February 2014, Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft announced a public takeover offer to the shareholders in Scania to tender all of their shares in Scania to Volkswagen for a cash consideration of SEK 200 per share. An independent committee, consisting of...

On 9 April 2014, Boliden AB settled a 6 year SEK 500 million senior unsecured bond carrying a floating rate coupon of 1.90 per cent. over 3 month STIBOR on to the Swedish debt capital market.The proceeds of the issue will be on-lent to its wholly-owned su...

AAK has agreed to acquire the oils and fats business of CSM Benelux NV in Merksem. The company is a leading bakery fats supplier to the bakery markets in Belgium, the Netherlands and France. The acquired business employs around 100 people and had revenues...

Axel Johnson-owned AxIndustries has agreed to acquire a majority shareholding in Gisab – Gällivare Industriservice AB. Gisab will be part of the AxIndustries division, which supplies services, bearings and transmissions to industrial customers in Scandina...

Loomis has entered into an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the shares in Via Mat Holding AG. Via Mat is based in Zürich, Switzerland, and is one of the world’s leading companies in international valuables logistics. The enterprise value is approximat...

Listed Swedish property company Kungsleden AB has sold the property Storseglet 3 in Stockholm to NCC Boende AB for SEK 110 million.The property, acquired in autumn 2013 from GE Real Estate, is located in Gröndal by Lake Mälaren in Stockholm and comprises...

On 19 March 2014, the board of directors of TransAtlantic resolved, subject to approval by the annual general meeting, on a new share issue of approximately SEK 150 million. The rights issue is fully covered through a subscription and guarantee undertakin...

The Swedish real property company Bonnier Fastigheter has extended its lease with PwC in Stockholm for another 12 years. The new agreement, likely to be one of Sweden’s largest lease negotiations this year, covers approximately 21 000 square meters in Bon...

Nordea is divesting its 20.7% stake in Nets Holding A/S to a consortium consisting of funds advised by Advent International, ATP and Bain Capital.Nets is  a Nordic provider of payments, card and information services. Nets has more than 2,800 employee...

SAS has announced on 25 February 2014 an issue of SEK 1.6 billion convertible bonds due in 2019. The convertible bonds issue was authorised by the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of SAS, held on 18 February 2014. The proceeds from the issue of...

SEB Private Equity Opportunity Fund III has acquired Spectra Collection and the Norwegian Norco group. Spectra Collection and the Norco group both act within the shopfitting industry and provide interior concepts for chain stores within the retail sector....

Volvo Car Corporation has entered into global IT outsourcing agreements for IT-related services with a number of prominent global IT service providers. The multi-year agreements, reached in 2013 and early 2014, are in line with Volvo Car Corporation’s str...

Measurement technology group Hexagon has acquired Aibotix, a manufacturer of intelligent multicopter systems for high-efficiency aerial applications.Headquartered in Kassel, Germany, Aibotix is the maker of vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aerial veh...

The Riverside Company has divested the Vokes Air group to MANN+HUMMEL GmbH, a global filtration company headquartered in Germany.Vokes is a pan-European provider of air filtration solutions for a variety of commercial and industrial applications with manu...

Sparbanksstiftelsen Öresund has participated in the formation of Sweden’s largest savings bank, with the proposed name Sparbanken Skåne. The bank is being created through the merger of parts of Sparbanken Öresund’s operations and Färs & Frosta Sparban...

Stena Bulk/Stena Weco has entered into a new 50/50 joint venture with the Indonesian palm oil producer Golden Agri-Resources and has, through the JV company, acquired an additional six chemical tankers. Golden Stena Weco will be responsible for the commer...

Axel Johnson-owned vehicle component specialist AxDrive has entered into an agreement to acquire Trans-Auto.Trans-Auto is the industry leader in the distribution of power trains and transmissions for heavy vehicles. AxDrive is a business area within the t...

Scandic Hotels has agreed to acquire the Norwegian hotel chain Rica Hotels. Upon completion of the acquisition, Scandic will have a nationwide presence in Norway. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals.Scandic is one of the largest h...

Probi is a leading player in probiotic research and the development of efficient and well-documented probiotics. Probi’s customers are leading companies in the Functional Food and Consumer Healthcare segments. Total income for 2013 totaled SEK 103.6 milli...

The Board of Directors of SAS AB has resolved to carry out an offer to subscribe for preference shares of approximately SEK 2 billion directed to the general public in Sweden, Denmark and Norway as well as to institutional investors. The offer, which amon...

The Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund (the Sixth AP Fund) has divested Unfors RaySafe AB to RADCUE Holding AB, an affiliate of Fluke Biomedical. The Sixth AP Fund has been the majority owner of Unfors RaySafe AB since 2006.Unfors RaySafe is a leading pr...

The investment fund Accent Equity 2012 has acquired the Eurowrap Group, comprising Winnie Papir A/S and Eurowrap Ltd., from Maj Invest Equity. The Eurowrap Group is one of Europe’s leading suppliers of gift packaging including gift wrap, gift bags, gift t...

On 20 December 2013, Kungsleden AB (publ) issued SEK 700,000,000 senior unsecured notes due 2016 at a floating interest rate of 1.95 percentage units above 3-month STIBOR. Listing of the notes was made on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm on 17 January 2014.Kungsleden...

Gamla Livförsäkringsaktiebolaget SEB Trygg Liv (publ) has sold real properties located in Stockholm, Halmstad and Gothenburg to a company in the Rikshem AB (publ) group. The transaction was executed through an acquisition of shares in the property owning...

SSAB has announced a recommended public exchange offer to acquire the Finnish stock market company Rautaruukki. The proposed combination of SSAB and Rautaruukki will be a Nordic and U.S.-based steel company with a global reach and cost-efficient and flexi...

Online payment provider Klarna AB has agreed to acquire its German counterpart SOFORT AG from Reimann Investors. Both companies will continue to offer their products side by side and operate on stand-alone basis. The transaction is subject to approval by...

The elevator companies I.T.K. and Hissgruppen have since September 2013 been part of a group, Motum, with Accent Equity 2012 as main owner. Motum  has now acquired all shares in the elevator company Vinga Hiss. The founders of Vinga Hiss will co-inve...

Cityhold Property AB has agreed to acquire a Munich based office property from IVG Institutional Funds GmbH. The centrally located freehold office building will be Cityhold’s first acquisition in Germany. The property provides circa 15,000 square metres o...

Gjensidige Forsikring ASA has agreed to acquire Solid Försäkringar’s motor and home insurance business in Sweden. The business, based in Helsingborg, will be part of the Swedish operations in Gjensidige’s Nordic division.Gjensidige is a leading Nordic gen...

Absolent Invest AB has acquired Bristol Tool & Gauge International GmbH from the company’s private owner and founder. Bristol Tool & Gauge International GmbH is a leading provider for specialized filters, for example, electrostatic filters, centri...

Getinge intends to issue a public tender offer to acquire hemodynamic monitoring leader in Pulsion Medical Systems SE, listed on the German Stock Exchange. The all-cash offer will be financed through a new credit facility and will be made by a wholly-owne...

Measurement technology group Hexagon has agreed to acquire Pixis, the exclusive distributor of Intergraph solutions in Chile and Peru since 1996. Headquartered in Santiago Chile, Pixis is a leading provider of engineering software solutions and services,...

The Swedish property group Akelius has agreed to divest a portfolio of residential properties in southern Sweden’s Öresund region to Aberdeen Residential Sweden AB. The portfolio comprises 15 properties consisting of approximately 800 apartments and circa...

Göteborg Energi has agreed to divest Falbygdens Energi, including its subsidiaries Falbygdens Energi Nät and Falbygdens Bredband, to Infracapital. The transaction, which is part of Göteborg Energi’s policy to achieve a clearer strategic focus on core oper...

A group of investors led by Mikael Ahlström, founder of Procuritas, has through Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström Fastighets AB (publ) and its wholly owned subsidiary Mitt Alby AB acquired 10 residential properties containing 1 300 apartments from Botkyrkabyg...

Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) and China Development Bank have signed a USD 800 million loan agreement with a maturity in 2021. As announced by Volvo Cars, the loan will support Volvo Cars in further developing its product program as well as strengthening i...

Russian Real Estate Investment Company AB (RURIC) completed a debt-to-equity restructuring of a SEK 620 million bond loan on 22 November 2013. The group of bondholders included, among others, Alecta, Proventus and Alpcot. The restructuring, which entailed...

An affiliate of HHR Euro CV has acquired the site-leasehold to the Sheraton Hotel Stockholm property for approximately EUR 102 million. The transaction was structured by way of the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of the holding company of t...

KF Fastigheter, the real estate division of Swedish retail group Kooperativa Förbundet (KF), has divested seven retail parks and shopping gallerias comprising 205,000 square meters to Starwood Capital Group, a leading global private investment firm. The p...

E.ON Sverige has sold 80% of the shares in the offshore wind farm Rødsand II to Danish energy company SEAS-NVE. E.ON will retain a 20% stake and has entered into a service agreement with SEAS-NVE as part of the transaction whereby E.ON will remain respons...

Opus Group AB’s (publ) subsidiary Opus Inspection, Inc. has agreed to acquire Envirotest Systems Holdings Corp., a leading vehicle inspection services and technology company in North America for approximately USD 84 million (approx. SEK 550 million). Opus...

On 29 October 2013 Aktiebolaget SKF (publ) (“SKF”) successfully issued seven year EUR 750 million notes carrying an 2.375 per cent fixed coupon. The net proceeds from the issue will primarily be used to refinance debt following the acquisition of Kaydon C...

The Sixth AP Fund (“AP6”) has signed an agreement with Nordstjernan whereby AP6 acquires, through a holding company, 45 per cent of the shares in Salcomp Oyj (“Salcomp”). Nordstjernan remains the majority owner with 55 per cent of the shares.Salcomp is a...

Telenor Sweden AB has acquired Tele2 Sweden AB’s Swedish fibre and cable business serving the consumer market for SEK 775 million. The acquisition is subject to customary approval of the Competition Authority before the closing.Tele2’s Swedish fiber and c...

Listed Swedish property company Kungsleden AB (publ) has signed an agreement with GE Capital Real Estate to acquire a portfolio of 84 commercial properties. The transaction value is approximately SEK 5.5 billion. The properties are mostly office buildings...

Measurement technology group Hexagon has made a public voluntary offer of NOK 28 per share for Oslo-listed positioning solutions maker Veripos. The offer implies an enterprise value for the Norwegian firm of NOK 910 million and requires acceptance from s...

Measurement technology group Hexagon has agreed to acquire Devex, a leading player in the field of automation solutions for mining operations. Devex is a Brazilian company with leading mine-management software solutions for open-pit and underground mines...

On 17 September 2013 Mölnlycke Holding AB completed the refinancing of its 2007 leveraged senior and mezzanine debt facilities. For this purpose the Company used the proceeds from Investor’s increased equity investment and by drawing under a Swedish law g...

On 3 October 2013, the board of directors of TransAtlantic resolved, subject to approval by the extraordinary general meeting, on a new share issue of approximately SEK 150 million. The rights issue is fully covered through a subscription and guarantee un...

Flow Nordic has divested the entire residential ventilation systems business Pluggit, including intellectual property rights and tools, to the Spanish Soler & Palau Ventilation Group.Pluggit GmbH is a German manufacturer of residential ventilation sys...

Glitnir Bank Luxembourg SA has divested Bovista Invest AB with subsidiaries to Fastighets AB Balder. The underlying property value in the transaction is approximately SEK 2 billion.Bovista is a residential property group which owns 4 300 apartments in sev...

The Swedish government has today completed the divestment of its remaining stake in Nordea raising SEK 21.6 billion in the sale of approximately 284 million shares. The transaction was made through an accelerated book-building directed at Swedish and inte...

Lammhults Design Group AB has acquired the design furniture company Fora Form AS based in Norway for approximately NOK 67 million.Fora Form, founded in 1929, is the market leader on the Norwegian design furniture market for public areas and over 80 percen...

On 17 July 2013 Unilabs successfully issued five year EUR 355 million senior secured notes carrying an 8.5 per cent fixed coupon, five year Euro 130 million senior secured floating rate notes and six year Euro 200 million second lien PIK toggle notes carr...

SCA has decided to make a public offer to acquire the Chinese tissue manufacturer Vinda International Holdings Limited in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately SEK 9.4 billion for all shares and options in Vinda. The offer is, among other things...

NRF Sweden Holding AB, a subsidiary of Cornerstone Europe’s Nordic Retail Fund, has entered into a term loan facility agreement with Merchant Banking, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB and Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG with Merchant Banking, Skandinaviska Ens...

Valedo and certain minority owners have divested the BTI group to The Carlyle Group.The BTI group with operations in, inter alia, the Nordic Region, UK, the Netherlands and Belgium is one of Europe’s leading suppliers of subtitles and dubbing for broadcas...

The investment fund Accent Equity 2012 has acquired majority positions in two independent elevator companies, Hissgruppen AB and I.T.K. Intern Transport Kommunikation AB, and will merge them into one group. The founders of Hissgruppen and ITK will co-inve...

SKF and Kaydon Corporation (NYSE:KDN) have agreed that SKF will acquire Kaydon in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD 1.25 billion, including USD 95 million of net debt.  The transaction will be paid through existing cash and credit l...

Kewatec AluBoat Oy, a privately owned manufacturer of aluminium boats based in Kokkola, Finland, has signed an agreement with Conglin Group to establish a joint venture in Shandong, China.Conglin Group is a national enterprise group based in Shandong, Chi...

Novax has acquired a 33 percent stake in Concept Motion AB, a growth company that is Sweden’s leading full-service supplier of fitness equipment. Founder and CEO Bo Ekros remains the majority shareholder of the company.Novax, a subsidiary of Axel Johnson...

Rederi AB TransAtlantic has agreed to partner with AtoB@C Shipping to outsource all the commercial activities of its short sea bulk division, effective 1 September 2013. As part of the agreement, AtoB@C will also charter all TransAtlantic short sea bulk v...

SEB’s real estate fund Domestica Bostäder has acquired Hyreshem Malmö AB from Norwegian Obos Forretningsbygg AS.The acquisition, comprising properties in Bunkeflostrand, a residential area in Malmö Municipality, includes 788 rental units and approximately...

AarhusKarlshamn (AAK) has acquired Unipro from Unilever.Unipro is a leading supplier of oils and fats to the industrial and bakery markets in Turkey and the surrounding region. The company, located in Istanbul and founded in 1990, had revenues of approxim...

Alingsås Energi Nät has acquired district heating business from Statkraft Värme, including the district heating plant Sävelundsverket.Alingsås Energi Nät is the parent company of a group of companies ultimately owned by the municipality of Alingsås and is...

DFDS has acquired 100% of the share capital of the Swedish logistics company Karlshamn Express and its subsidiaries as well as the remaining 50% of the share capital of the associated company Karlshamn Express Baltic SIA.DFDS is quoted on NASDAQ OMX Nordi...

NCC has sold the office and retail property Torsplan in Hagastaden, Stockholm for approximately SEK 1.6 billion. The buyer is KLP Fastigheter AB and the preliminary date for occupancy is scheduled for the end of the fourth quarter, 2013. The transaction w...

The investment fund Accent Equity 2012 has acquired the Infolog division from Intellecta AB (publ). The acquisition is subject to merger clearance in Sweden.The Infolog division provides services within marketing and promotion, including development of ad...

Akelius Fastigheter, one of Sweden’s largest private property companies, has sold a property comprising five buildings and approximately five hundred apartments to a tenant-owners’ co-operative within HSB Norr in Luleå, Sweden.HSB is one of Sweden’s bigge...

Hemsö has acquired 14 community service properties on Gotland for SEK 456 million; four from Region Gotland and ten from GotlandsHem. The properties have a total leasable area of 35,500 square meters and Region Gotland will be the primary tenant. The tran...

Höganäs, founded in 1797, is the world’s leading producer of iron and metal powders. Höganäs had sales of SEK 6.7 billion in 2012, and is quoted on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm’s Mid Cap List. H Intressenter is jointly owned by Lindéngruppen and Foundation Asset...

Bravida, a Scandinavian supplier of technical installation and service solutions, has successfully issued notes for a total amount of approximately SEK 3.2 billion. The net proceeds from the offering, comprising €225 million and SEK 1.3 billion of senior...

DONG Energy has divested its ca. 26% stake in Swedish hydro power company Kraftgården for SEK 5.2 billion to Voimapiha AB, a consortium consisting of three Finnish energy companies.DONG Energy is one of the leading energy groups in Northern Europe. The gr...

Triton has acquired a 76.3% stake in Infratek ASA from Hafslund ASA and Fortum Nordic AB for approximately NOK 682 million (NOK 14 per share). Infratek is listed on Oslo Börs and after execution of this acquisition, Triton will make a mandatory offering f...

Hemsö has acquired an elderly care home in Offenbach am Main near Frankfurt for SEK 127 million from a local property developer. The home has a long established operator with a remaining lease of 25 years.Hemsö is a property company that owns, manages and...

The Swedish government has today completed the sale of 260 million shares in Nordea, raising SEK 19.5 billion. The transaction was made through an accelerated bookbuilding directed at Swedish and international institutional investors. The proceeds from th...

TransAtlantic plans to issue short term debt certificates totaling up to SEK 140 million. The certificates will constitute bridge financing until a previously announced rights issue of shares amounting to SEK 150 million, scheduled for the fourth quarter...

ICA Gruppen successfully issued bonds for a total amount of SEK 5 billion on 17 June 2013. The bonds are issued under ICA Gruppen’s recently established MTN programme and have senior unsecured status. The issue is split into two tenors of five and two yea...

Sector Alarm Holding AS has, through its wholly owned Swedish subsidiary Sector Alarm AB, announced a recommended cash offer to the shareholders of Trygga Hem Scandinavien AB to acquire all shares in Trygga Hem. The shareholders have been offered SEK 18 i...

Sweco has agreed to acquire consulting engineering firm Vectura from the Swedish Government. The acquisition will create the largest engineering consultancy in the Nordic market, with annual sales of approximately SEK 8.8 billion and around 9,000 employee...

ASSA ABLOY has together with 14 banks entered into a syndicated Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Facility amounting to EUR 900 million. The facility has a tenure of at least five years and its main purpose is to refinance an existing facility amounting to...

Members of a consortium consisting of Norrskenet AB, Folksam, Metso and PEAB have decided to invest a total of USD 100 million, or USD 25 million each, in bonds which will be issued by Northland Resources AB (publ).Norrskenet AB is jointly owned by Luossa...

Swedish online outdoor retailer Addnature and European online bicycles and outdoor retailer internetstores have decided to join forces in order to pursue a European leadership in the online market for bicycles and outdoor products. The acquisition is fina...

The Swedish Securities Dealers Association (SSDA) has on 29 May adopted standard terms for the issuance of Swedish bonds with higher risk to professional investors. The terms reflect current practices in the Swedish market but also contain certain proposa...

The Board of Directors of Ratos AB has resolved on a new issue of preferential shares of approximately SEK 1.45 billion, directed to the general public in Sweden as well as institutional investors. The intention is to finance the acquisitions of Nebula an...

Stockholm County Council has, through Stockholm Public Transport (“SL”), awarded the Bombardier Group an agreement to deliver new trains to the Stockholm metro. The agreement covers a total of 176 new vehicles, 96 vehicles in the initial order and 80 vehi...

ReadSoft has acquired privately held Expert Systems Development Svenska Aktiebolag.ReadSoft AB (publ) is the global leader in Document Process Automation solutions. The company’s global headquarter is located in Helsingborg, Sweden, and the company’s shar...

BRIO divests its business for pushchairs and car safety seats to BRITAX, one of the world's premier manufacturers and suppliers of children's car safety seats and pushchairs. The transaction includes the pushchair platforms BRIO GO, BRIO HAPPY and BRIO SM...

3i, Håkan and Gunn Thysell, and certain minority holders have divested the HTC group to Polaris Private Equity.The HTC group, with subsidiaries in USA, Germany, France and UK, is a global manufacturer and supplier of grinding machines and diamond pads for...

AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL), Stockholm’s public transport company, has signed construction contracts with NCC and Skanska for the new subway depot in Norsborg, Stockholm. The depot will include three parallel tunnel facilities, each with four railw...

Aerocrine has completed a financing with the U.S. investment firm OrbiMed Advisors and with Novo A/S consisting of USD 35 million of debt and is also raising SEK 95 million (approximately USD 15 million) of equity from OrbiMed and a number of institutiona...

Ericsson has agreed to divest its power cable operations to the Danish company nkt cables. Ericsson’s power cable operations had net sales of approximately SEK 1.5 billion in 2012 and comprises approximately 320 employees and consultants, primarily based...

Nordisk Vindkraft AB and Stadtwerke München have signed agreements for the sale, construction and operational management of a 144MW wind farm near Sidensjö, Västernorrland County, Sweden.The project has been developed by Nordisk Vindkraft, who will also b...

Sandvik has entered into a five year outsourcing agreement with Capgemini for parts of Sandvik’s transactional finance and accounting processes. The agreement is in line with Sandvik’s strategy to simplify processes and leverage group synergies and global...

Tele2 AB has sold Tele2 Russia to VTB Group in a cash transaction comprising USD 2.4 billion (approximately SEK 15.6 billion) in equity value and USD 1.15 billion (approximately SEK 7.5 billion) in net debt.  Tele 2 Russia is the 4th largest Rus...

As part of the completion of merging the Aluminium Profiles and Building Systems businesses of Orkla ASA and Norsk Hydro ASA into a 50/50 joint venture, Orkla has completed a partial demerger of its subsidiary Sapa. The Sapa group develops, manufactures a...

Klövern AB (publ) issues a Swedish five year SEK 700 million mortgage backed bond loan to finance a portfolio of investment properties in Karlstad, Sweden, with a total market value of approximately SEK 1.1 billion. Klövern will apply for a listing of the...

Nordax Finans AB (publ) has issued SEK 300,000,000 senior unsecured notes due 2016 at a floating interest rate of 3.00 per cent. above 3-month STIBOR. Application for listing of the notes on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm will be made. Nordax Finans AB (publ) is a...

Nordic Capital has agreed to divest the Sweden based medical technology company Permobil to Investor. The transaction values the company at an enterprise value of SEK 5.5 billion of which 5.1 billion cash and 400 million in a performance based potential f...

Länsförsäkringar Bank AB (publ) has issued SEK 1,100 million Tier 2 notes due 2023 at a floating interest rate of 2.50 per cent above 3-month STIBOR. The notes were issued on a 10 year non-call five basis. Application for listing of the notes on NASDAQ OM...

Perstorp Specialty Chemicals AB has divested Formox AB to Johnson Matthey Plc.Formox is the world’s leading provider of technology and complete plants for production of formaldehyde as well as metal oxide catalysts for use in formaldehyde plants.The Perst...

Orion Capital Managers’ Orion European 2 Investment has divested Infracity to Profi Förvaltning in Sweden’s largest real property transaction in 2013 to date. Orion was advised by Mannheimer Swartling in the transaction. The firm’s team included Klas Wenn...

Danir has announced a public cash offer for all shares in Sigma. The offer is not subject to any conditions. The offer values the shares in Sigma to around SEK 586 million. Danir is the largest owner in Sigma and is controlled by Dan Olofsson, who is also...

Shire has acquired Premacure, a privately held Swedish biotechnology company.Premacure, launched in 2006 by entrepreneurs and internationally recognized clinicians in the area of neonatology, is developing a drug for a potentially blinding eye disorder in...

Swedish real property group Wallenstam has completed wind power transactions with Eolus Vind. The transactions include the acquisition of wind turbines in the wind power park Södervidinge in Kävlinge municipality. In connection with the acquisition, Walle...

Hakon Invest has agreed to purchase 60% of the shares in ICA AB from Dutch joint-venture partner, Royal Ahold NV, for SEK 20 billion. Part of the consideration is being funded by bridge acquisition facilities from Nordea Bank AB (publ) and Svenska Handels...

Stena Bulk has entered into a new 50/50 joint venture with the Indonesian palm oil producer Golden Agri-Resources. The joint venture company, Golden Stena Bulk, will initially acquire four oil tankers previously ordered by Stena Bulk. The vessels will be...

Ballingslöv International AB has acquired the UK kitchen manufacturer Southdown Kitchen Ltd, operating under the brand Manhattan Furniture. Manhattan Furniture is one of the fastest growing kitchen manufacturers in the United Kingdom over the last years.B...

The City of Malmö has established a SEK 10 billion Euro Medium Term Note (EMTN) programme. The proceeds from issues of notes under the programme will be used for general financing purposes and the refinancing of existing debt of MKB Fastighets AB, the Cit...

Hyresbostäder i Sverige II, a company managed by Obligo Investment Management, being a part of the Agasti Group, has refinanced property portfolios in Sweden with a new loan facility in the amount of SEK 3 billion. The loan covers nearly 9,000 apartments...

Offside Press AB has entered into an agreement with the Swedish freelance journalist Martin Schibbye and the Swedish freelance photographer Johan Persson, who were detained, imprisoned for fourteen months and subsequently pardoned while carrying out a jou...

Danish wind power company European Wind Investments A/S has acquired two wind farms in Sweden from Eolus Vind AB (publ) with a total capacity of approximately 24 MW. The transaction comprises one wind farm consisting of five wind turbines to be establishe...

The investment fund Accent Equity 2008 has divested Troax to FSN Capital.Troax produces machine safety solutions for automated and robotized processes as well as solutions for the warehousing and logistics sector including partition wall and collapse prot...

VBG Group AB (publ) has acquired the American automatic tire chains manufacturer Onspot of North America, Inc. for a purchase price of approximately USD 10 million. VBG Group is an international engineering group with business in Europe, USA, India and Ch...

Trelleborg, through its business area Trelleborg Wheel Systems, has signed an agreement to acquire Maine Industrial Tire, a market leader specializing in solid tires for vehicles such as fork-lifts.Maine Industrial Tire’s headquarters is in Massachusetts,...

On 20 December 2012, the daily evening newspaper Aftonbladet won a principally important victory in a case in the Supreme Court of Sweden. The case was originally initiated in the District Court in 2003 and concerned the issue of whether or not advertisin...

SEB’s new real estate fund Domestica Bostäder has acquired properties from Peab with an underlying property value amounting to approximately SEK 350 million. The four real estate properties are located in Sweden (Västerås, Nyköping and Östersund) and are...

Prescription Eyewear Ltd has acquired LensOn AB, the Nordic region’s leading online retailer of contact lenses.Prescription Eyewear Ltd., the parent company of MyOptique.com, SunglassesShop.com and GlassesDirect.com, is Europe’s leading online retailer of...

DNB Liv has divested the retail property Kista Galleria just outside Stockholm to Citycon Oyj and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for approximately SEK 4.6 billion. The transaction is the largest single property transaction conducted on the Swedish m...

Listed Swedish property company Kungsleden AB (publ) is selling properties and site-leasehold rights to Castellum, being the buyer through its subsidiaries Brostaden and Briggen, for approximately SEK 380 million in total. The property portfolio has a gro...

Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) and China Development Bank have signed a EUR 922 million loan with maturity in 2020. As announced on Volvo Cars’ website, the loan will be used for a refinancing of Volvo Cars’ current loans and has been signed under the umbre...

Swedish listed property company Kungsleden AB is selling its 50% stake in Swedish community services property company Hemsö Fastighets AB to AP3 (the Swedish Third Pension Insurance Fund) and receiving repayment of its shareholders’ loan for total proceed...

Indutrade AB (publ) has acquired all of the shares in Nolek AB, Sweden, with annual sales of approximately SEK 160 million.Nolek is a leading producer of instruments and machines for leak testing, leak detection and proof testing. The company has producti...

Cidron Delfi Intressenter AB (publ), a Nordic Capital Fund VII portfolio company which heads up the Orc Group, has issued a five year, EUR 60 million senior secured bond carrying an 8.5 per cent fixed coupon on to the Swedish debt capital market. This is...

Hexagon AB has agreed to acquire the assets of GTA Geoinformatik GmbH.GTA Geoinformatik is a pioneer in georeferenced virtual 3D city models and building reconstructions. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Berlin and Neubrandenburg, Germany....

Swedish real property group Wallenstam has completed several wind power transactions with Eolus Vind. The transactions include the acquisition of three operational wind turbines in the wind power park Järnmunderöd in Munkedal municipality and a wind power...

Hufvudstaden AB (publ) has established a SEK 2 billion Swedish MTN programme. The programme enables Hufvudstaden to issue medium term notes denominated in EUR and SEK with fixed and floating interest rates on the capital market. Hufvudstaden is one of Swe...

HEXPOL AB (publ) has acquired the US company Robbins Holdings, Inc., including Robbins LLC, for USD 89.2 million on a debt free basis. Robbins is a leading US rubber compounder and a global leader in molded envelopes and curing tubes for especially truck,...

The Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund (Sixth AP Fund) and has sold its stake in Power House Holding AB to Öckeröborgen AB.Power House Holding is one of Europe’s largest wholesalers of Volvo Penta products and supplies a global network of Volvo Penta dea...

Barnas Hus Nordic AS has divested Swedish baby- and children goods chain “Barnens Hus” to store concept franchisees in Sweden.The “Barnens Hus” business comprises 15 wholly owned stores in Sweden and an extensive franchise organisation. Barnas Hus Nordic,...

Capio has acquired Carema Sjukvård from Ambea.Carema Sjukvård operates primary care centres and specialist clinics in Sweden with approximately 35 care centers, 325,000 listed patients, 1,400 employees and estimated revenues in 2012 of SEK 1.7 billion.Cap...

Stampen has sold its 20% stake in SBS Radio AB to SBS Media Group Sverige. Stampen and SBS Media Group Sverige have been co-owners of SBS Radio AB since 2009. Upon completion of the transaction, SBS Media Group Sverige will be the sole owner of SBS Radio,...

Opus Group AB (publ) has arranged approximately SEK 400 million in acquisition financing and completed the acquisition of the AB Svensk Bilprovning subsidiary, Besiktningskluster 1 AB. The acquisition of Besiktningskluster 1 AB, which will change its name...

ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems has divested Cardohuset to Sundsbron Fastighets AB, part of the Brorman Fastigheter group.Cardohuset is located in the centre of Malmö and has approximately 5,000 square metres of rentable office area. ASSA ABLOY Entrance Syste...

Defence and security company Saab AB (publ) has signed an agreement regarding the acquisition of all shares in the German company Medav GmbH, specialised in the application of signal processing, pattern recognition and information technology. Completion o...

Swedish pharmaceutical company Moberg Derma has agreed to acquire its US distributor Alterna LLC in a reverse triangular merger to establish its own market presence in the US. The upfront merger consideration will consist of both cash and newly issued Mob...

A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S has sold part of its small tanker segment to the Swedish Thun group. Thun already owns a 50% share in 12 of the 13 vessels which are included in the transaction. The last vessel is wholly-owned by A.P. Møller – Mærsk. Broström, whi...

Santander Consumer Bank AS has launched an SEK 4.5 billion term securitisation of a portfolio of Swedish auto loans, using an Irish special purpose company named Svensk Autofinans 1 Limited as issuer. The deal is the first public ABS (asset-backed securit...

Bulten Fasteners China has prevailed in an anti-dumping investigation before the European Commission, resulting in a complete removal of the additional duties that had previously struck the company.A new EU Regulation of 10 October 2012 constitutes t...

ÅF and Epsilon have agreed to merge to create one of Northern Europe’s leading technical consultancy companies. Under the terms of the agreement, ÅF will acquire Epsilon for an initial purchase price of approximately SEK 1.7 billion (enterprise value) of...

Stamina HOT Helse AS (formerly Hjelp24 AS) has, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, made a public cash offer to shareholders of Avonova Sverige AB (publ). The offer values the shares in Avonova to approximately SEK 194 million. The transaction is subject t...

Lammhults Design Group has agreed to divest Scandinavian Eyewear AB to Marchon Europe. Marchon, a company within the VSP Global group, is one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of spectacle frames.Lammhults Design Group is one of Sweden’s m...

Länsförsäkringar AB has established a SEK 2.5 billion Swedish MTN programme. The programme enables Länsförsäkringar to issue medium term notes denominated in EUR and SEK with fixed and floating interest rates on the capital market and is the first MTN pro...

Palamon Capital Partners has divested Espresso House to Herkules Private Equity III, a Norwegian private equity fund. Palamon, one of Europe’s leading mid-market private equity firms, acquired a majority interest in Espresso House in 2006. Since then, the...

MRV Communications, Inc. has divested its Swedish subsidiary Alcadon MRV AB to Deltaco, a supplier and distributor of IT products in the Nordic region.MRV Communications is a global provider of optical carrier Ethernet, optical transport WDM, as well as n...

Norrporten Sandtorpark GmbH has agreed to lease over 4,600 square meters of the “International Coffee Plaza” office property in HafenCity in Hamburg to Hanjin Shipping Europe GmbH. Hanjin is a logistics company based in South Korea, with approximately 6,0...

Telenor Sverige has acquired Ownit Holding AB.Ownit is one of Sweden’s leading independent providers of solutions for broadband, TV and telecommunications, known as “triple-play”, and has 53 employees and 65,000 customers. Telenor Sweden, part of the Tele...

Nordic Real Estate Partners has secured a first closing of EUR 121 million for NREP Nordic Retail 2 AB, their second Nordic retail real estate fund. The fund will primarily invest in real estate focusing on necessity driven retail businesses in growth cit...

In a decision on 25 July 2012, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a motion filed on behalf of Digitelecom to vacate an award issued in September 2011 in favour of Tele2 Sverige AB. Instead, the court granted Tele2’s cross-m...

Skanska Infrastructure Development and Jämtkraft are jointly investing in a wind farm near Rätan in Berg muncipality. The total investment amounts to approximately SEK 1.2 billion. Skanska’s and Jämtkraft’s holdings amount to 50 percent each. The environm...

Getinge has agreed to acquire US-based Kinetic Concepts Inc.’s Therapeutic Support Systems (TSS) business for USD 275 million. The TSS portfolio and operations will be integrated into Getinge Extended Care under the ArjoHuntleigh brand.Kinetic Concepts’ T...

Kungsleden AB is selling two industrial properties in southern Poland for EUR 12.5 million to a Polish property company. The two properties have a gross leasable area of approximately 44,000 square metres and the transaction is conditional on the Municipa...

BE Group signed a new three-year SEK 1.4 billion revolving credit facility agreement with Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken and Svenska Handelsbanken on 17 July 2012.BE Group is a leading trading and service company, offering a broad range of steel, stainless...

Melker Schörling AB (MSAB), the Swedish investment company, has increased its stake in AarhusKarlshamn (AAK) from 23.6% to 35.0% for approximately SEK 1 billion.MSAB has agreed to acquire United International Enterprise’s (UIE) entire 41.5% stake in MSAB-...

Duni AB (publ) signed a new EUR 130 million revolving credit facility agreement with DNB Bank ASA, Sweden Branch, on 5 July 2012.Duni AB (publ) is a leading supplier of products for table setting and take-away. The Duni brand is sold in over 40 markets an...

Nordic Capital Fund VII has signed an agreement to acquire a 55 per cent stake in a group of four leading consumer finance and insurance firms which provide services for Sweden's retail sector: Resurs Bank, Solid Försäkringar, Reda Inkasso and Teleresurs....

Arcus-Gruppen has agreed to acquire a portfolio of Nordic spirits brands and a production facility from Pernod Ricard for approximately EUR 103 million. The acquisition comprises the brands Aalborg, Brøndums, Gammel Dansk and Malteser, as well as a produc...

The Danish cleaning group Allianceplus Holding has acquired Miljöteamet i Sverige AB, a family-owned company engaged in the cleaning industry.Allianceplus is owned by the Danish venture capital firm Polaris Private Equity and specializes in professional c...

Cybercom has divested its Chinese operations to Wicresoft, a leading ITO/BPO ITO (Information Technology Outsourcing; BPO - Business Process Outsourcing) service provider in China.Cybercom’s business in China, with about 100 employees, has been&...

GKN plc has agreed to acquire Volvo Aero, the aero engine division of AB Volvo, for SEK 6.9 billion.Volvo Aero designs, engineers and manufactures components and sub-assemblies for aircraft engine turbines and employs some 3,000 people based in Sweden, No...

Opus Group AB (publ) has agreed to acquire a wholly-owned subsidiary from AB Svensk Bilprovning for approximately SEK 375 million. The subsidiary operates 70 inspection stations located in the Stockholm and Mälardalen regions and north thereof.Opus Group...

Valedo has reached an agreement to acquire Aditro Logistics in partnership with the management team and board of Aditro Logistics.Valedo is a Swedish private equity group investing in small and mid-size companies in the Nordic region. Aditro Logistics is...

Valedo’s portfolio company Akademikliniken has made an add-on acquisition in Sweden by acquiring Specialistkliniken.Valedo is a Swedish private equity group investing in small and mid-size companies in the Nordic region. Akademikliniken is one of the worl...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ) in connection with the structure and set-up of a real estate fund, which will be focused on making investments in residential properties located in the southern and middle parts of S...

Getinge Group has acquired Acare Medical Science Ltd, a China-based company primarily focused on the middle-market segment for hospital beds, for SEK 180 million.The Getinge Group is a leading global provider of equipment, systems and solutions within the...

Sandvik has entered into a five year strategic outsourcing agreement valued at approximately SEK 2 billion with IBM. Through the agreement, Sandvik will outsource a significant part of its global IT infrastructure services, including data center and workp...

Bourns, Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Jensen Devices AB.Jensen Devices, headquartered and with manufacturing operations in Stockholm, designs and manufactures gas discharge tubes (GDTs). Jensen Devices is well-known in the industry...

The Board of Directors of Aspiro AB has resolved on a new share issue of approximately SEK 100 million, with preferential right for the company’s existing shareholders, to finance the company’s expansion.Aspiro has a unique position as the world’s only pr...

PostNord has established a Swedish MTN programme. The programme has a limit of SEK 6 billion and makes it possible to issue bonds on the Swedish market.  PostNord was established in 2009 through the merger between Post Danmark A/S and Posten AB. The...

Swedish real property group Wallenstam has completed several wind power transactions with Eolus Vind. The transactions include the acquisition of six operational wind turbines in two wind power parks in Skara municipality and the divestiture of six wind p...

Stena Weco has entered into a 50/50 joint venture with the Indonesian palm oil producer Golden Agri Resources. The JV company, Golden Stena Weco, will manage Golden Agri Resources’ international transportation needs concerning palm oil products and the JV...

Lactalis has completed its acquisition of Skånemejerier AB from Skånemejerier ek för, an economic association which is owned by its more than 600 members.Skånemejerier AB is one of the largest dairy producers in Sweden. The company has an annual turnover...

Valedo Partners Fund II AB, together with founders and key management of Cambio, has acquired Cambio Healthcare Systems from a group of sellers, including Investor Growth Capital and Linktech.Cambio is a leading Swedish provider of healthcare information...

Billerud AB (publ) and Investment AB Kinnevik have announced the combination of Billerud and Korsnäs AB. The new company, BillerudKorsnäs, will become a leading virgin fibre-based packaging materials and packaging solutions company with an annual turnover...

Swedish Orphan Biovitrum (Sobi) is issuing a five-year, unsecured, bond on the Swedish market amounting to SEK 600 million and will apply for a listing of the bond on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.Sobi is a leading integrated biopharmaceutical company dedicated to...

Värderingsdata i Kungsbacka AB has merged with Boreda AB. Together, the companies offer a comprehensive range of information solutions and services to monitor and analyse developments in the Swedish real estate market. Their customers include companies wi...

Pirelli Tyre S.p.A. has acquired Däckia, a market leading multi-brand tyre distribution chain in Sweden, from Procuritas Capital Investors and minority shareholders for SEK 625 million.Pirelli Tyre is a world leading producer of high end tyres based in It...

Telenor Sverige has acquired Open Broadbandnet Sweden AB from Sweden Carnica Group. The acquisition also comprises an agreement for technical support and maintenance between Telenor Sweden and Fiberdata. Open Net is the second largest communications opera...

SN Finans Nord AB, a Swedish subsidiary of the Danish Spar Nord A/S Group, has transferred part of its financing business to Wasa Kredit, a subsidiary of Swedish insurance and banking group Länsförsäkringar AB. As part of the transaction, Wasa Kredit will...

AarhusKarlshamn AB (publ) has acquired Crown-Foods A/S, a Danish producer of oils, margarine, mayonnaise and sauces for the food service industry.AarhusKarlshamn is one of the world’s leading producers of high value-added specialty vegetable oils and fats...

Litorina IV L.P. has become the new majority owner of Eton Fashion AB. Eton, a market leader in fine quality men’s shirts, ties, and accessories, was previously wholly owned by the Davidson family who will retain a 35 per cent ownership.Eton was founded i...

Interdirect Tel Ltd, an Ireland-based telecommunication services provider, has won a SEK 134 million tax dispute with the Swedish Tax Agency regarding output VAT on the sale of telecommunication services.In a 2 June 2009 decision, the Swedish Tax Agency i...

Stampen Media Partner has agreed to acquire OTW and Susamuru from Forma Publishing Group AB, owned by Hakon Invest. OTW and Susamuru are full-service editorial partners within web, customer magazines and television with annual sales of approximately SEK 2...

AarhusKarlshamn AB (publ) has acquired Oasis Foods Company, a Hillside, New Jersey-based maker of edible oils, margarine, spreads, shortenings, vinegars, mayonnaise and sauces for the food service industry.AarhusKarlshamn is one of the world’s leading pro...

Getinge has established a Swedish MTN programme and issued a SEK 1 billion bond with a three year maturity. This is the first issue under the programme and proceeds from the loan will be used to partly refinance debt related to the acquisition of Atrium.T...

US-based Betaworks Studio and Three Point Group have invested in Bloglovin’ by acquiring Nyheter 24’s stake in the company.Bloglovin is a Stockholm-based company initially launched in 2007 as Bloggkoll. Today about 1.4 million members worldwide use the si...

Hemsö Fastighets AB (publ) has issued a three-year, unsecured, bond on the Swedish market amounting to SEK 750 million. Hemsö will apply for a listing of the bonds on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. The bondholders are represented by the agent Swedish Trustee.Hemsö...

Inwido has agreed to divest Inwido Home Improvement AB to Priveq Investment Fund IV.Inwido, Northern Europe's largest supplier of window and door solutions, is owned by Swedish private equity conglomerate Ratos and has an annual turnover of over SEK 5 bil...

SAS Scandinavian Airlines has agreed to sell six properties at Arlanda, Landvetter and Sturup airports in Sweden to Swedavia for a total value of approximately SEK 1.8 billion.SAS was advised by Mannheimer Swartling in the transaction. The firm’s team inc...

The owners of Prenax Global AB have sold their shares in the company to ARTS ET BIENS, an investment firm based in France founded by the Lévy family.Prenax Global provides Internet based solutions for managing newspaper and magazines subscriptions. The co...

Valedo’s portfolio company Akademikliniken has made an add-on acquisition in Sweden and Norway by acquiring Ellipse Klinikken from Reiten.Valedo is a Swedish private equity group investing in small and mid-size companies in the Nordic region. Akademiklink...

Jan and Stefan Bengtsson have divested the privately-held Swedish investment company Ekstranda to restaurant entrepreneur PG Nilsson.Ekstranda invests in small and medium sized companies. Its portfolio includes the Sturehof Group, which owns and operates...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised MediaTek Group, a market leading semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, in relation to its acquisition of Coresonic AB, a company which has developed a completely new and ground...

The gaming business of Nordic Gaming Group, a privately-held company based on Malta, is acquired by Betsson for an up-front purchase price of EUR 65 million and a contingent, additional purchase price of up to EUR 20 million, bringing the total potential...

Nordea has entered into an agreement with Pembroke Real Estate concerning the development of properties located in Stockholm’s central business district (CBD). Nordea will continue as the dominant tenant of the properties. The new building is expected to...

Hexagon AB has established a Swedish commercial paper programme. The programme enables Hexagon to issue commercial papers up to a value of SEK 5 billion. Arranger of the programme is Nordea and dealers are Danske Bank, Handelsbanken, Nordea, SEB and Swedb...

In February 2012 Greece received a USD 171.9 billion rescue package from the European Central Bank and private sector investors holding portions of the country’s sovereign debt agreed to restructure their bonds. The rescue package and debt resettlement de...

Lindab has extended SEK 3 billion of an existing multi-currency revolving credit facility with Nordea and Handelsbanken until February 2015.Lindab, a leading international ventilation and building products company, is established in 31 countries. The grou...

AxLoad has acquired the majority of the shares in Mennens Group from De Hoge Dennen Capital, a Dutch privately held investment company. Mennens will become a part of Certex Group, the largest of AxLoad’s three divisions. AxLoad, part of the Axel Johnson G...

Capio AB receives renewed contract in the public procurement carried out by Stockholm County Council regarding the operation of St. Göran’s Hospital. The new contract covers the period 2013-2021 with a right for the council to extend the contract for anot...

Green Cargo has agreed to divest Green Cargo Logistics, including the associated buildings and real property, to PostNord.Green Cargo Logistics is Sweden’s second largest company within third-party logistics, with a total storage space of 260,000 square m...

European Uranium Resources Ltd. (formerly Tournigan Energy Ltd), a company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in Canada and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, has acquired a number of uranium exploration licenses in Sweden and Finland from Mawson Resources Ltd...

Skandia Liv has completed the acquisition of Skandia AB from Old Mutual for SEK 22.5 billion. The transaction, announced on 15 December 2011, involves Livförsäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia (Skandia Liv) becoming an independent company and acquiring Försäkrin...

MCB Finance Group plc has established a SEK 500 million secured note programme through its newly formed Swedish subsidiary MCB Treasury AB. The note programme was announced on 8 March 2012 and has been established to fund the group’s operations which cons...

Preem and Norwegian Skangass have entered into a partnering agreement and ancillary agreements regarding the construction of Scandinavia’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal next to Preem’s refinery in Lysekil on the west coast of Swed...

BioInvent International AB (publ), a research-based pharmaceutical company focused on developing antibody drugs, is carrying out a rights issue with preferential right for the company’s shareholders.The Board of Directors´ decision to carry out the rights...

Svenska Stadsnät, an independent owner and operator of broadband networks in southern Sweden, has been acquired by TeliaSonera.Svenska Stadsnät develops and operates nets based on fibre technology and provides capacity to municipalities, companies and hou...

Novax has acquired a 60 per cent ownership stake in RCO, a leading provider of electronic access control products and solutions on the Swedish market. The sellers will continue as owners alongside Novax.Novax invests in growth companies within retail, tra...

The Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund (Sixth AP Fund) and the other shareholders in STT Condigi Holding AB have sold their holding to Tunstall Healthcare Group, a leading telecare and telehealth provider based in the UK.STT Condigi, a leading provider o...

Trelleborg and Freudenberg have agreed to form a joint venture to produce antivibration solutions for light and heavy vehicles. At year-end 2010, the total annual sales of the entities that are to form the joint venture were estimated at EUR 1.2 billion,...

The British engineering group Langley Holdings plc has acquired the sheet fed printing division of bankrupt manroland AG. The acquisition of the division includes production facilities, real estate, and an international marketing organisation operating th...

SKF has re-negotiated its agreement with HP regarding the outsourcing of its information technology business on a global basis. The SKF Group is a leading global supplier of products, solutions and services within rolling bearings, seals, mechatronics, se...

Munters AB, owned by Nordic Capital, has acquired an air cooling and air treatment equipment business in Dongguan (Guangdong Province). The acquisition is aimed at facilitating the Group’s expansion in the Chinese market. The business was acquired from Do...

Proffice AB has acquired the remaining shares in its subsidiary Dfind AB, which is a recruitment and staffing company specialised in information technology.Proffice is one of the largest specialist companies within staffing in the Nordic countries. The Pr...

DCC Energy has agreed to acquire the Swedish company Swea Energi Holding AB from Viviann and Lennart Hansson for an initial purchase price of SEK 205 million. Completion of the acquisition is conditional on competition approval from the European Commissio...

The Consort Group has acquired a hotel property out of receivership. The property is located in Berlin’s historic city centre and the four star hotel will continue to be operated by the Accor Group.The Consort Group is a privately-held real estate company...

The Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund (Sixth AP Fund) and the other shareholders have sold their holding in Xelerated to Marvell.The Sixth AP fund made its initial investment in Xelerated in 2007 and held approximately 80% of the company at the time of...

Schibsted has made a public offer to acquire Aspiro. The offer values all outstanding shares in Aspiro at approximately SEK 340 million.Schibsted is a Scandinavian media group based in Oslo, Norway with approximately 7,200 employees in 25 countries. The S...

Alten S.A. has agreed to acquire Enea Services Öresund AB, Enea‘s technology consulting business in Sweden with approximately 300 co-workers in Stockholm, Lund and Linköping. Enea AB (publ) is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.Alten S.A, a leading technology...

Overseas Telecom, the majority shareholder of Suntel Limited, has divested its share in Suntel Limited to Dialog Broadband Networks (Private) Limited. The transaction, which include all shares in the company, is expected to close in March 2012.Suntel Limi...

Hexpol has acquired the German company Horst Müller Kunststoffe GmbH & Co.KG for EUR 39 million on a cash and debt free basis. Horst Müller Kunststoffe is a leading Central European manufacturer of thermoplastic elastomer compounds (TPE Compounding)....

Sweco has signed an agreement to acquire the Finnish engineering consultancy FMC Group with annual sales of EUR 80 million and around 1,100 employees. FMC Group has offices at 21 locations in Finland and operations in the Baltic countries, Poland, Russia...

Munters has acquired a majority share in the Israeli company Rotem Computerized Controllers (1994) Limited. Rotem is specialized in control and management systems for agricultural and horticultural applications and a leading company worldwide.Munters offe...

Capio Specialistkliniker has acquired Centrum för Titthålskirurgi, a private specialist clinic that performs operations with focus on overweight surgery.Capio Specialistkliniker is part of the Capio Group, which is one of Europe’s leading healthcare provi...

The Stockholm Public Transport Authority (Sw. Stockholms Lokaltrafik, “SL”) has  awarded the international transport group Arriva two contracts valued at approximately SEK 16 billion over the full contract term. The contracts cover the operation of t...

DST Global and General Atlantic have invested USD 155 million in Klarna via a directed share issue and acquisition of shares from existing shareholders. The funding that Klarna receives via the share issue is earmarked to finance expansion into new market...

PostNord AB has signed a multi-currency revolving facility for SEK 2 billion with a consortium of Nordic banks. The facility matures in 2016.PostNord was established in 2009 through the merger between Post Danmark A/S and Posten AB. The group delivers com...

Stena Renewable AB has, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lemnhult Energi AB, entered into a turbine supply agreement and an agreement on service and maintenance regarding 32 wind turbine generators to be erected in Lemnhult, Municipality of Vetlanda, w...

The Riverside Company has acquired the PPS Group, an independent school operator in Sweden, from its founding management, who will remain owners alongside Riverside for the next phase of PPS’s development.Founded in 2000, PPS is one of the largest operato...

Mannheimer Swartling is advising Mohammed Al Amoudi and FastPartner AB (publ) as well as their jointly owned bidding company on its mandatory bid for Allenex AB (publ).Allenex, formerly LinkMed, is a life science company that develops, manufactures, marke...

3i has divested its stake in Sweden-based retail chain, TeknikMagasinet, to SEB Venture Capital. TeknikMagasinet has approximately 100 stores in the Nordic region selling consumer electronics and gadgets. The group has 460 employees and net sales of appro...

Telenor, Telia, Tele2 and 3 have formed a joint venture to provide a mobile payments service. The company is equally owned by Telenor, Telia, Tele2 and 3 and will operate as a commercial venture.The new mobile payments company has been named 4TSverige; th...

Wrapp, the new social gifting service, has received a round of Series A funding led by Atomico, the international venture capital firm formed by Niklas Zennström. Zennström will also be joining Wrapp's board of directors.Wrapp is a social gifting service...

The founders of Bovieran have been joined by Fastighets AB Balder in their ownership of Bovieran, a Swedish real property development company that develops and builds housing for senior citizens. The 50/50 ownership between Mellberg Förvaltning and Balder...

Sandvik has made a recommended public offer to acquire all remaining shares in its subsidiary Seco Tools AB. The total offer value for all shares in Seco Tools, not held by Sandvik, is approximately SEK 6.2 billion. The offer values Seco Tools in its enti...

Green Cargo has sold its road haulage subsidiary, Green Cargo Åkeri, to a new joint venture owned by Hans Paridon, the division’s former managing director, and Swedish Match.Green Cargo Åkeri’s road haulage operations are primarily conducted in Sweden. Th...

The Swedish Competition Authority has approved the merger of Swedish dairy processor Milko and Arla Foods, clearing the way for Arla to control Milko’s volume share in Swedish raw milk after the official merger on 1 November 2011.The Competition Authority...

SEMAFO has completed a secondary listing of its common shares on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm exchange in Sweden. SEMAFO’s shares started trading on the Large Cap segment of NASDAQ OMX Stockholm on 20 October 2011. The market capitalization of SEMAFO correspo...

Unilever has agreed to acquire Ingman Ice Cream Oy Ab. Ingman is the major, enduring domestic ice cream producer in the Finnish market since Valio divested its ice cream production to Nestlé in 2004. The completion of the acquisition is contingent on secu...

APM Terminals has acquired Skandia Container Terminal AB and will take over the operation of the container terminal in the port of Gothenburg. Skandia Container Terminal AB was acquired from Göteborg Port Operation AB, a company controlled by the municip...

Ballingslöv International has acquired Macro International, a leading shower systems manufacturer in Sweden and Norway.Ballingslöv International is part of the Ballingslöv Group, one of the leading manufacturers of kitchen, bathroom and storage solutions...

Exirgruppen AB has merged its Swedish and Hungarian operations with the Arkivator group. The merger has been effected through an exchange of shares whereby Exirgruppen AB has become a shareholder of Arkivator Holding AB alongside IGC Industrial Growth Com...

Getinge has agreed to acquire Atrium Medical Inc., a US-based company primarily focused on the cardiovascular market, from a group of private investors for approximately USD 680 million. The acquisition is being financed through the use of existing credit...

Skrindan, owned by Altor and Bure, has finalised the process of finding a long term owner of Norrvidden, the largest real estate company in Northern Sweden. The company owns approximately 220 real properties totalling approximately 840 000 sqm. The acqu...

Publicis Groupe has acquired all assets of the PR and communications company Schwartz Communications, Inc., including its UK and Swedish subsidiaries. The company, founded by Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz in 1990, has 180 employees in Boston, San Francisco...

Swedish shipping company Stena RoRo AB has won enforcement proceedings against the Russian shipyard Baltiysky Zavod JSC and related nullification proceedings before the Russian courts.In the enforcement proceedings, stemming from an award of EUR 20 millio...

Kungsleden has divested two commercial properties in Johanneshov/Stockholm to S:t Erik Markutveckling AB, a company indirectly owned by the Municipality of Stockholm. The value of the properties is SEK 279 million.Kungsleden is a listed Swedish property c...

Skrindan, owned by Altor and Bure, has finalised the process of finding a long term owner of Norrvidden, the largest real estate company in Northern Sweden. The company owns approximately 220 real properties totalling approximately 840 000 sqm.The acquisi...

G&L Beijer has acquired operations from Carrier Corporation that handle the distribution of Toshiba’s ventilation, heating and air conditioning products in eleven European countries for approximately EUR 86 million.G&L Beijer includes Beijer Ref,...

G&L Beijer has agreed to acquire United Refrigeration’s wholesale operations in France and UK.  The acquisition in France relates to Cofriset, and the acquisition in UK relates to United Refrigeration (UK).G&L Beijer includes Beijer Ref, the...

Einar Mattsson Fastighetsaktiebolag, among others, and Einar Mattsson Byggnads Aktiebolag have entered into an agreement regarding the management of real properties owned by the group. The Einar Mattsson-group’s property portfolio consists of 81 real...

Sunningdale Tech Ltd is a leading manufacturer of precision plastic components and is listed on the Main Board of the Singapore Exchange. Sunningdale Tech has more than 7,000 employees and operates across five countries. Sunningdale has through its subsid...

Proventus, Foundation Asset Management and Folksam (Folksam Liv, Folksam Sak and KPA Pensionsförsäkring) become equal owners in PWP AB, one of Sweden’s largest on-shore wind power producers, following Proventus’ sale of shares to new owner Folksam and cur...

Docu Group has acquired the Sverige Bygger group from Talentum. Sverige Bygger is the market-leading provider of information and marketing services for the construction industry in Scandinavia. Docu Group is controlled by GMT Communications Partners, a Eu...

The Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners have agreed to divest Com Hem, Sweden’s leading TV, broadband and telephony company, to BC Partners, an international private equity firm. Completion is expected in September 2011 subject to receiving EU re...

Olcon Engineering AB has sold Dynasafe International AB to Perusa Partners Fund 1, L.P. Dynasafe, with headquarters in Karlskoga, Sweden, is a global leader in developing products for explosion containment and destruction of munitions with global sales es...

E.ON Gas Sverige AB has divested its gas transmission business, including pipelines and ancillary facilities for energy gas transmission, to Swedegas, a company held by EQT Infrastructure.E.ON Gas Sverige is a wholly-owned subsidiary in the E.ON AG group,...

Getinge AB entered into a new Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility Agreement of EUR 1.2 billion with an international syndicate of banks.Getinge is a leading global provider of equipment, systems and solutions within healthcare and the life sciences, w...

OJSC Saint-Petersburg Telecom, a subsidiary of Tele2 Russia Holding AB, has closed a debut bond issue of RUB 13 billion. The issuer's liabilities under the offering will be covered by irrevocable undertakings from Tele2 Russia Holding AB and Tele2 Financi...

Proffice has acquired Komet, a temporary staffing and recruitment company focusing on university and college students with approximately 600 consultants, from Constallation Group.Proffice is one of the largest specialist companies within staffing and recr...

AarhusKarlshamn (AAK) has acquired the Golden Foods/Golden Brands business of Louisville, Kentucky, the leading North American processor of speciality fats and oils and manufacturer of shortenings for the bakery and food service industries.AAK is the worl...

Systemair has completed its previously announced acquisition of Ventrade, a Russian ventilation and air conditioning company.Systemair AB is a leading ventilation company with operations in 40 countries and sales of SEK 3.2 billion in financial 2009/10. T...

LK Finans and SEB Venture Capital have jointly acquired Temperature Sensitive Solutions Systems Sweden AB (“TSS”) from the company’s founder, Michael Thelvén. TSS is a leading provider of products and services for temperature measuring and control of temp...

Royal Philips Electronics has agreed, subject to certain closing conditions, to acquire the mammography equipment product line of Sectra AB for EUR 57.5 million on a cash- and debt-free basis, with an additional possible earn-out of EUR 12.5 million.Sectr...

AstraZeneca has agreed to sell Astra Tech AB to DENTSPLY International Inc for approximately USD 1.8 billion in cash, subject to regulatory clearance.Astra Tech AB is a global leader in dental and healthcare (urological and surgical) products, services an...

Com Hem has acquired Canal Digital Kabel-TV AB, a Swedish provider of cable television and IPTV services to approximately 220,000 households, from Canal Digital Sverige AB, a subsidiary of Telenor.Com Hem, the largest cable television operator in Sweden,...

Concentric AB (publ) (“Concentric”), the former Hydraulics Systems Division of Haldex AB (publ) (“Haldex”), is now a separately listed company with its shares trading on the main market of NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.Concentric produces and sells a range of prod...

Skanska Infrastructure Development, wind park developer O2 and Jämtkraft are jointly investing in a project-financed wind park. The total investment amounts to approximately SEK 1.1 billion. Skanska’s holding amounts to 50 percent; the other parties own 2...

3i has divested Ålö, a global leader in agricultural front loaders, to Altor for SEK 2.2 billion.3i is an international leader in private equity focusing on buyouts, growth capital and infrastructure and invests across Europe, Asia and North America. Ålö...

Proventus Invest AB announced a public offer to the shareholders of BRIO AB (publ) on 10 March 2011. Proventus has thereafter requested compulsory acquisition of the remaining shares in BRIO and currently holds more than 99% of the shares in the company....

BioInvent International AB (publ) announced on 1 June 2011 that the company, by virtue of the authorization by the annual general meeting on 24 March 2011, have completed a private placement of new shares through an accelerated bookbuilding procedure. The...

Industrifonden and Sustainable Technologies Fund have co-invested SEK 100 million in Triventus. Triventus is active in renewable energy, primarily wind power, but also biogas and small-scale hydroelectric power. Triventus has experienced rapid growth sinc...

The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (“RBS”) has completed a refinancing and acquired all the shares in the shopping mall company Centeni AB (former Boultbee Group Stockholm) on 6 May 2011. RBS is now the sole owner of the Centeni group.RBS was advised by Mannh...

Betsafe, a privately-held gaming company based on Malta, has been acquired by Betsson. The transaction values Betsafe at a maximum of EUR 60 million, based on an up-front purchase price of EUR 32.5 million and a contingent, additional purchase price of up...

Unilever Sverige has agreed to divest Opus Health Care to Segulah IV, L.P.Opus Health Care is a market leader in Swedish health care with a variety of disinfectant and skin care products marketed primarily to hospitals, public health care providers, and o...

Proventus has established Proventus Capital Partners II – a co-investment vehicle focusing on corporate loans and corporate bonds. In addition to providing new financing directly to corporate borrowers, Proventus Capital Partners II may invest in the seco...

Invest B2B A/S has divested its portfolio consisting of 32 properties located in Berlin to a joint venture of Austrian investors for a purchase price exceeding € 75 million. Invest B2B A/S is a Danish investment company owned by a small group of investors...

International Game Technology (“IGT”) has announced a recommended cash offer to the shareholders in Entraction Holding AB (“Entraction”) corresponding to a total offer value of SEK 700 million.IGT is a global leader in the design, development and manufact...

Valedo Partners has acquired a majority stake in Akademikliniken, the leading Swedish aesthetic and reconstructive surgery group and operator of one of the world’s leading aesthetic surgery clinics.Valedo Partners is an independent Swedish private equity...

Accent Equity has acquired 50 percent of Hoist AB. The founders, Malcolm Lindblom and Christopher Upmark, will hold the remaining shares.Hoist AB is active in two main business areas that deliver systems, products and services to the hotel industry (HHS)...

Sandvik Mining and Construction and Shandong Energy Machinery Co. in Xintai, Shandong Province, China, have signed an agreement to form a 50/50 owned joint venture for the production and sale of coal mining equipment.Shandong Energy Machinery, a Chinese m...

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) has provided EUR 25 million in secured real estate financing to a Swedish real estate company with branches in Russia. The funding provided is intended for properties located in Kaliningrad and Murmansk.SEB has been...

The US company Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation has acquired all shares in TranSiC AB from, among others, Volvo Technology Transfer AB, Stiftelsen Industrifonden and Midroc New Technology AB.TranSiC AB was formed in 2005 and has its origin in research...

Volvo Bus Corporation and SAIC Motors, a company in the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), have agreed to form Shanghai Green Bus Drive System Co, a joint venture company focused on new energy driveline systems for buses such as hybrids and...

Stena Bulk has entered into a joint venture with the Danish shipping company Dannebrog Rederi and acquired 50 percent of the shares in Stena Weco. Stena Weco will operate the Weco Shipping product tanker business previously held by Dannebrog Rederi and wi...

GMT Communications Partners has agreed to acquire the legal and tax & accounting businesses of Thomson Reuters in Denmark and Sweden.The businesses provide legislation, case law and regulatory information under the KARNOV, PACTA and UfR brands primari...

AMF Pensionsförsäkring AB has reached an agreement with the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund to acquire fifty percent of the shares in Dombron Intressenter AB  and thereby indirectly a real estate portfolio with a total underlying property value...

The board of directors of Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (publ) has resolved on a new share issue with preferential rights for the company’s shareholders of approximately SEK 600 million. The rights issue is subject to approval by the annual general meeting...

Eiendomsverdi AS has acquired a majority stake in Värderingsdata i Kungsbacka AB. Both companies develop and deliver IT systems and software primarily for monitoring market developments in the real estate industries in Norway and Sweden, respectively.The...

After the successful issue last year of SEK 900 million mortgage-backed notes (backed by its then existing loan portfolio), Svensk Hypotekspension is now busy building a new portfolio of so called equity release mortgages (loans secured by real property o...

Orex Minerals Inc. has entered into an agreement with Northland Resources S.A. to acquire the Barsele gold project in Sweden. Orex Minerals Inc., a junior mineral exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in Canada, is focused on the explorat...

Trelleborg AB and Trelleborg Treasury AB have signed a new five year multi-currency revolving credit facility for EUR 750 million and USD 625 million with a consortium of international banks. The facility will be used for partial repayment of an existing...

The Nordic supplier of ground handling to the airline industry, Aviator, has entered into an agreement regarding the purchase of Novia and its ground handling operations at Copenhagen Airport (Kastrup) and at Malmö Airport (Sturup). Aviator is the only in...

Bankernas Automatbolag has entered into a seven-year outsourcing agreement with EDB ErgoGroup. The agreement, valued at close to SEK 1 billion, entails that Bankernas Automatbolag will purchase ATM services from EDB ErgoGroup for the operation of approxim...

The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) has applied for permission to build the world’s first final repository of spent nuclear fuel. An application filed under the Environmental Code has been submitted to the Environmental Court at Na...

E.ON Sverige and Altor Fund III have entered into an agreement according to which Altor acquires 90.5 per cent of E.ON’s subsidiary E.ON ES and thereby becomes new principal owner.E.ON ES is an engineering and contracting company within energy production,...

Bring Frigo AB has acquired Coldsped’s Swedish warehouse operations Coldsped Lager from Schenker AB. Bring Frigo, one of nine specialty areas within the Bring Group, is a leading expert in temperature regulated food logistics, and will take over Coldsped’...

Antofagasta Minerals has entered into a Strategic Alliance and Earn-in Agreement with Eurasian Minerals. The agreement includes Antofagasta entering into a regional strategic exploration alliance, mainly focused on copper and covering most of Sweden, maki...

HESTRA-Handsken has acquired 50 per cent of Zhejiang Pinghu Huashen Leather Company and formed a joint venture with the remaining owner to continue the co-operation between the companies that is over 25 years old.HESTRA-Handsken has subsidiaries in Sweden...

Trelleborg has acquired an operation in Xingtai (Hebei) to facilitate the Group’s expansion in the Chinese market for specialty tires, primarily agricultural tires. The facility was acquired from a Chinese company, part of the US Group Main Industrial Tir...

TeliaSonera has resolved to repurchase up to approximately 3,6 percent of the outstanding shares through a repurchase offer directed to TeliaSonera’s shareholders valued at approximately SEK 10 billion. The resolution was passed by the Board of Directors...

Kungsleden AB has reached an agreement to acquire properties from NR Nordic & Russia Properties Ltd. for a purchase price of approximately SEK 3.6 billion. The portfolio of 36 properties consists of office and industrial properties, 33 of which are lo...

Loomis AB has signed a multi-currency revolving credit facility for USD 150 million and SEK 1.0 billion with a consortium of banks. The new facility matures in 2016 and will be used for partial repayment of an existing facility as well as for general corp...

HEXPOL conducts a rights issue raising approximately SEK 550 million to finance part of the acquisition of Excel Polymers and create financial flexibility for future expansion and acquisitions. The rights issue was approved by the Extraordinary General M...

The Government of Sweden has completed the sale of 255 million shares in Nordea, raising SEK 19 billion. Revenues from the sale will be used to enhance the stability of the Swedish economy, by reducing the national debt.The Government of Sweden was by adv...

AarhusKarlshamn AB (AAK) has signed two five year multi-currency credit facilities totaling approximately SEK 4.2 billion, (EUR 330 million in a club deal and USD 180 million in a bilateral arrangement) with Nordic financial institutions. The facilities w...

Skanska is selling its 50-percent ownership in Autopista Central, a public-private partnership (PPP) highway concession located in Santiago, Chile, to Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), a Canadian institutional management firm managing fun...

Mannheimer Swartling is advising SEMAFO Inc. in exploring the possibility of a secondary listing on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. SEMAFO Inc., a Canadian company currently listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange with a market capitalisation of approximately SEK 17 b...

Norrporten HAC GmbH has agreed to lease over 4,600 square meters of the “Hamburg America Center” office property in HafenCity in Hamburg to Buss Group GmbH & Co. KG. Buss, a logistics company based in Hamburg, has operations that include port logistic...

Solaria Fund has acquired the anti-spyware and antivirus software business from Lavasoft.Lavasoft AB, a privately-held company headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, is one of the leading actors in the anti-spyware and antivirus segment.Solaria Fund was adv...

Industrivärden has executed a directed convertible bond issue to raise up to EUR 550 million.The convertible bonds, marketed principally to European institutional investors, are to be listed and traded on the EuroMTF Market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchang...

Mannheimer Swartling is advising Waldir AB on Waldir’s mandatory bid for NetOnNet AB (publ).NetOnNet is a Sweden-based consumer electronics retailer with online and warehouse store sales. The company’s share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.Mannheimer Sw...

Securitas AB has signed a new five year multi-currency revolving creditfacility for USD 550 million and EUR 420 million with a consortium ofinternational banks. The facility will be used for partial repayment of anexisting facility as well as for general...

Fastighetsaktiebolaget Förvaltaren has sold five properties situated in Sundbyberg, Sweden, with an underlying property value of approximately SEK 460 million, to tenants’ co-operative associations. Fastighetsaktiebolaget Förvaltaren is owned by the munic...

Avaya Inc. has acquired Konftel AB, a Sweden-based industry leading manufacturer of conference telephones.Avaya is a global leader in enterprise communications systems. The company is headquartered in New Jersey and provides unified communications, contac...

Preato Capital has sold Sefina Finance to Dollar Financial Group U.K. Ltd. The Sefina Finance group includes Sefina Svensk Pantbelåning, the largest pawnbroker in Sweden and in the Nordic region with 16 offices in Sweden, Helsingin Pantti, the oldest pawn...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Kungsleden AB in connection with the divestment of its retirement homes portfolio in Germany to Hemsö Fastighets AB. The total purchase price is MEUR 144.Mannheimer Swartling’s team handling the transaction was led by Thom...

RusForest AB has completed the acquisition of 86 percent of OAO LDK-3 and 100 percent of OOO Infa. LDK-3, a sawmilling company in the city of Arkhangelsk in North West Russia, is one of the largest sawmill enterprises in the Arkhangelsk region, with a mon...

Sandvik has reached an agreement to acquire 80% of Shanghai Jianshe Luqiao Machinery Co., Ltd. (SJL) from Shanghai Electric Industrial Co., a state-owned enterprise, and CRABEC (Shanghai) Limited. SJL will become a part of Sandvik Mining and Construction....

The investment fund Accent Equity 2008 has made acquisitions for the establishment of Aviator Airport Alliance, a new constellation of ground handling services companies in the Nordic region.Aviator Airport Alliance is comprised of the Swedish company Nor...

DocMorris Pharmacies (Admenta Sverige AB) has signed an agreement with Logica Sverige AB regarding outsourcing of IT services for their pharmaceutical business.Admenta is a subsidiary within the Celesio Group, a world leading actor on the healthcare, medi...

G&L Beijer has agreed to acquire SCM Frigo, a refrigeration group of companies based in Italy. The SCM Frigo Group is one of Europe’s largest assemblers of conventional refrigeration units and a leading supplier of environmentally-friendly refrigerati...

Intrum Justitia has acquired Nice Invest Nordic, a debt collection company which focuses on investing in purchased debt relating to mail-order and e-commerce customers. The acquisition entails an existing portfolio as well as an agreement covering forward...

Haldex to divest its Traction Systems Division to BorgWarner for SEK 1.4 billion. Traction Systems Division is a leading supplier of four wheel drive systems for private cars.Haldex, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a provider of proprietary and inn...

Turner Broadcasting System Europe has recently acquired a minority shareholding in Starlounge International AB. Turner, a Time Warner company, is home to a number of international entertainment networks such as CNN, TNT and TCM. Starlounge is the leading...

G&L Beijer has agreed to acquire Carrier Corporation’s refrigeration wholesale operation in Thailand. The acquisition will be made through a company jointly-owned by G&L Beijer and B Grimm Ltd.G&L Beijer includes Beijer Ref, the largest refrig...

Getinge AB has entered into an agreement with Verizon Business regarding outsourcing of the Getinge Group’s Wide Area Network (WAN) and related services on a global basis. The Getinge Group is a leading global provider of products and systems that contrib...

The specialty dermatology firm Galderma, a joint venture of Nestlé and L’Oreal, has announced a public take-over offer to the shareholders of Q-Med. The SEK 6.7 billion bid was announced on December 13, 2010.Q-Med is a medical device company that develops...

ASSA ABLOY has made a public cash offer to shareholders of Cardo AB. The offer values the shares in Cardo to approximately SEK 11.3 billion. The transaction is subject to approval by the relevant competition authorities.Cardo is a leading global supplier...

Sophus Berendsen, part of the Davis Service Group Plc, has divested Björnkläder AB to Litorina. Björnkläder is Sweden’s leading supplier of working clothes and personal protection equipment.Berendsen is the leading textile service company in northern Euro...

Global Eiendom Utbetaling Norge 2008 AS, a Nordic real estate investment fund, has acquired a nursing home in Germany in a sale and lease back transaction. The facility is located in the vicinity of Frankfurt. Global Eiendom was advised by Mannheimer Swar...

Foodmark has acquired the cheese and dairy products business Fjällbrynt from Milko, a dairy co-operative based in northern Sweden.Foodmark Sweden AB is part of the Norwegian group Agra, one of Scandinavia’s leading food and consumer goods companies. Fjäll...

Accor has divested 18 hotels in Sweden, representing all the Group’s local hotel assets, in a sale-and-franchise-back transaction, where 14 Ibis and 4 Formule 1 hotels will continue to operate under the same brands. The transaction is being carried out in...

KF – The Swedish Cooperative Union – has awarded Accenture a five-year contract for application management services and a six-year contract for business process outsourcing (BPO). The services will be off-shored and delivered through Accenture’s Global De...

Castellum subsidiary Aspholmen Fastigheter AB has acquired properties in Uppsala and Örebro from GE Real Estate AB and Egeryds Fastigheter AB, respectively. The three properties comprise approximately 26,000 square metres of office and retail space with a...

Green Cargo has divested its 45% shareholding in CargoNet AS to Norwegian Norska Statsbanorna NSB. CargoNet is an intermodal rail-based transportation company with freight terminals in Sweden and Norway. Green Cargo is a Swedish logistics company with int...

Stockholm Public Transport (SL) has commissioned Construcciones Y Auxiliar De Ferrocarriles, S.A. (CAF) to deliver new trams to cover the rolling stock needs in relation to several planned extensions of the tram system in the County of Stockholm. The cont...

Stockholm Public Transport (SL) has commissioned Ansaldo STS for a new safety and signaling system for the Stockholm metro. The initial contract covers delivery, installation and maintenance of a new safety and signaling system for the Stockholm metro’s R...

Ratos has concluded an agreement to divest its holding in Camfil to the company’s principal owners, the Larson and Markman families, for SEK 1.325 billion.Camfil is a world leader in clean air technology and air filters, with approximately 3,400 employees...

Hexagon implements a rights issue of approximately SEK 6,500 million. The main objective of the rights issue is to finance part of the acquisition of the US based software provider Intergraph Corporation. On July 6, 2010, Hexagon entered into an agreement...

3i and other owners have sold their stakes in Balco Holding AB to Segulah IV, L.P.3i, an international private equity firm, originally invested in Balco in 2001. Today, Balco is the leading developer of balconies and balcony glazing systems in Europe. The...

DFDS and C.PORTS SA have jointly acquired Älvsborg Ro/Ro AB and will take over operations of the ro/ro terminal in the Port of Gothenburg. In connection with the acquisition, Älvsborg and the Port of Gothenburg have entered into a 25-year concession agree...

HEXPOL AB has acquired the global rubber compounding group Excel Polymers for USD 212.5 million on a cash and debt free basis. Excel Polymers is a leading global supplier of elastomeric solutions. The group has approximately 800 employees in the US, Mexi...

ICA Fastigheter AB and Alecta have formed a jointly-owned real estate company to acquire, own and manage ICA supermarkets in Sweden. In connection with its launch, the company is acquiring 12 properties valued at approximately SEK 2 billion from ICA Fasti...

The Swedish real estate and property development company Aspelin-Ramm Fastigheter AB has acquired Pedagogen in Mölndal from Akademiska hus. Until 2006, this was the site of the Teacher Education Programme at the University of Gothenburg. The acquisition i...

Bostadsaktiebolaget Poseidon, Göteborgs stads bostadsaktiebolag, Familjebostäder i Göteborg AB, AB HjällboBostaden, Gårdstensbostäder AB, Förvaltnings AB GöteborgsLokaler, and Göteborgs stads parkeringsaktiebolag have, through a service concession, appoin...

Vital Forsikring ASA has become the sole owner of the companies that own and operate Kista Galleria, a 90,000 square meter building comprising Sweden’s largest shopping mall, as well as offices, hotels and student apartments. The acquisition of the 49.9%...

BE Group AB has acquired Lecor Stålteknik AB, a Swedish steel construction company. Lecor Stålteknik is focused on the production of prefabricated steel structures and has been involved in the new Holmenkollen ski jump in Norway and Gamla Ullevi soccer st...

Palamon Capital Partners, one of Europe’s leading mid-market private equity firms, has acquired a majority stake in Eneas Energy AS from a group of private investors. Eneas Energy was founded in 1995 and has rapidly grown to become one of the premier acto...

Mannheimer Swartling is legal adviser to the board of Munters in connection with the offer announced by Cidron Intressenter, a company indirectly wholly owned by Nordic Capital, on 29 September 2010.The offer from Cidron Intressenter is a competing offer...

Deka Immobilien Investment GmbH has divested Grävlingen 12, a property located in downtown Stockholm commonly referred to as “CityCronan”, to Swedish life insurance company AMF.CityCronan is a freehold property comprising approximately 40,000 square metre...

Gothia Vind has established the joint venture company Gothia Vind JD with Green Power Development Holding, a Dutch investment fund, to develop eleven wind power sites in Sweden. The wind power sites will encompass approximately 100 turbines with a project...

Loomis AB has signed a bond loan agreement of EUR 65 million with the Swedish Export Credit Corporation on 23 September 2010. The loan has a term of five years and is 75 per cent guaranteed by the Swedish Export Credits Guarantee Board. The funds will be...

Sveaskog and Smurfit Kappa have entered into an agreement whereby Sveaskog will deliver about 2 million cubic meters of pulpwood to the Smurfit Kappa plant in Piteå, Sweden. The agreement is worth more than SEK 1 billion annually.Sveaskog is Sweden's larg...

Loan agreements were signed on 21 September 2010 between Latvia and Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway and Sweden respectively, Under the agreements the Nordic lenders have agreed to provide Latvia with total credits of EUR 1.9 billion. The loan agreements...

Castellum’s subsidiary Aspholmen Fastigheter has sold a property in Örebro, Sweden (with an underlying property value of SEK 102 million) to Behrn Fastigheter. The property comprises 6,870 square metres, including among others a hotel business.Aspholmen F...

Aerocrine AB (publ) carries out a SEK 225 million directed issue of new shares and convertible bonds to Danish Novo A/S, as well as a SEK 155.5 million rights issue.Aerocrine is a medical technology company focused on the improved management and care of p...

Nefab has acquired Chick Packaging. Nefab, majority-held by Nordic Capital and headquartered in Sweden, delivers complete packaging solutions to international industrial groups within the telecom, electronics, automotive, energy, medical and machinery ind...

Bracco Imaging has acquired Initios Medical AB, Bracco Imaging’s distributor in Scandinavia and the Baltic states. Bracco Imaging, a global leader in diagnostic imaging and contrast media and medical devices, is part of the Bracco group. Bracco was advis...

Litorina Kapital has acquired ECO-Boråstapeter. The acquisition was completed in two stages via an agreement with shareholders owning 43.3% of the company in June and an offer directed to the remaining shareholders in July. The consideration included cash...

Flextrus Group AB has during the summer acquired all of the shares in Flexmed AB and Flexopac AB respectively. Flexmed is a Swedish based packaging company focused on the healthcare sector. Flexopac supplies flexible packaging materials primarily to the N...

Bong Ljungdahl AB (publ) is acquiring Hamelin’s envelope division in a transaction that includes a cash portion, an issue of new shares and convertible bonds to Hamelin, as well as a vendor loan. Following the completion of the transaction, Hamelin will o...

Mannheimer Swartling is legal adviser to the board of Munters in connection with the offer announced by Alfa Laval on 6 September 2010.Munters is a global leader in energy efficient air treatment solutions and restoration services based on expertise in hu...

On 28 August 2010 the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (“Finansinspektionen”) revoked all licenses from HQ Bank and announced that it intended to submit an application for compulsory liquidation of the business. The decision was a consequence of ea...

Svensk Hypotekspension AB, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Svensk Hypotekspension Fond 1 AB (publ), issued on 31 August 2010 SEK 900,000,000 mortgage backed notes. The notes are divided into two classes, SEK 318,000,000 with floating rate interest and...

KF – The Swedish Cooperative Union – has entered into an outsourcing agreement with the HP Group. The five-year agreement entails the consolidation and operation of all data centres within the KF Group and is expected to substantially reduce KF’s IT cost...

The main owners of E&I Intressenter (E&I) have agreed to merge Swedish El & Industrimontage Group with Norwegian technology and engineering group Goodtech ASA. The transaction is expected to be completed in October 2010 conditional on acceptan...

Turner Broadcasting System has agreed to acquire Millennium Media Group (MMG) to form a new pan-Scandinavian channels and content group. The new group will bring together the activities, teams and operations of MMG and Time Warner subsidiary Turner Broadc...

Universal Music, the world’s leading music company, has entered into an artist agreement with Darin for the Nordic market. The agreement includes, inter alia, the release of his fifth studio album, “LoveKiller,” his first with Universal Music.Darin was re...

Kistefos divests its shares in the companies included in Trans Viking to Rederi AB TransAtlantic. Trans Viking is a joint venture within the business area Offshore/Icebreaking, which up until now has been owned in equal shares by Kistefos (through its sub...

Ford Motor Company has completed the sale of Volvo Car Corporation and related assets to the Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Company Limited.The closing of this transaction, described as Sweden's “deal of the decade” when announced in March 2010, marks the s...

AH Industries, a subsidiary of Ratos AB, has acquired RM Group from the founders of the group, who will remain as owners in the merged company with a holding of approximately 10%. The acquisition will be made at an Enterprise Value of approximately DKK 32...

Capgemini has acquired Swedish IT and Business Process Outsourcing service provider Skvader Systems from its current management and founders. Skvader Systems specializes in the provision of smart meter deployment services and smart meter managed business...

Autodesk has acquired Illuminate Labs from, among others, Stiftelsen Industrifonden, Innovationsbron and Volvo Technology Transfer.Illuminate Labs, formed in 2002 and headquartered in Gothenburg, develops and markets rendering and baking technology for li...

Hilding Anders has acquired Russia’s leading bed manufacturer Askona. Askona has manufacturing and retail operations in Russia with approximately 1,100 employees and turnover of approximately SEK 700 million.Hilding Anders is the leading manufacturer of b...

Hexagon AB has agreed to acquire Intergraph, a global provider of enterprise engineering and geospatial software for approximately USD 2.1 billion (enterprise value).The acquisition is fully financed and will further strengthen Hexagon’s position as a wor...

Swedish private equity company Accent Equity has agreed to divest Nordic bathroom manufacturer INR to CapMan.Under Accent's ownership, INR revenues and profits have more than doubled, the group has established itself in Denmark and Norway, and its product...

Stockholm County Council has signed a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) agreement with Swedish Hospital Partners, a project company formed by Skanska and British investment fund Innisfree, to develop, build, operate, maintain and finance the New Karolinska...

Munters has agreed to divest division MCS, a global leader in water and fire restoration services to Triton, a private equity firm focusing on business services investments in the Nordic and German-speaking regions. The value of the transaction is approxi...

Imtech has acquired Swedish technical services provider NEA from private equity partnership Segulah for approximately SEK 975 million. The transaction is subject to approval from the Swedish Competition Authority.Imtech, based in the Netherlands, is one o...

Union Investment Real Estate GmbH has acquired commercial property in Sweden from Fabege. The property, Päronet 8, was acquired for SEK 555 million and is located in the municipality of Solna.Union Investment is an international investment company special...

Federal-Mogul has acquired the Daros Group, a privately-owned supplier of high technology piston rings used in industrial energy generation and commercial shipping. The Daros Group, headquartered outside Gothenburg, Sweden, has operations in China, UK, Ge...

Ancestry.com announced that it has agreed to acquire the leading Swedish family history company Genline AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Genline Holding AB. Genline Holding AB’s shares are listed on Sweden’s AktieTorget. The transaction remains subje...

Ratos has acquired shares in HL Display, corresponding to 28.2% of the capital and 59.0% of the votes, from the Remius family and thereby owns a total of 57.0% of the capital and 79.1% of the votes in the company. In connection with this transaction and i...

Mannheimer Swartling is legal adviser to the board of Tricorona in connection with the offer announced by Barclays on 2 June 2010.Tricorona’s business operations include investing in and trading emission reduction credits, brokerage of electricity and ele...

Ferronordic Machines has acquired Volvo Construction Equipment’s (Volvo CE) Russian sales and distribution organization and been appointed exclusive distributor of Volvo CE products in Russia. In connection with the acquisition, Ferronordic Machines ...

KF – The Swedish Cooperative Union – has entered into a 5-year outsourcing agreement with Atea. The agreement, valued at approximately SEK 200 million, entails that KF transfers overall responsibility for all its IT workstations (office and retail), netwo...

Varnäs Förvaltning has sold a portfolio of residential properties to Ikano Bostad Stockholm. The portfolio, consisting of 31 properties in Västerås and Eskilstuna, includes approximately 1 300 apartments.Varnäs Förvaltning was advised by Mannheimer Swartl...

Scribona, listed on First North, has agreed to acquire Catella, a European finance group that specializes in financial advisory services and asset management. The total consideration, including redemption of Catella’s debt, amounts to SEK 417 million.Sell...

Stena wins challenge proceedings in Svea Court of Appeal relating to a shipbuilding contract dispute with Baltiysky Zavod JSC.In the challenge proceedings, stemming from an award of EUR 20 million in damages to Stena after arbitration proceedings held in...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Bong Ljungdahl in connection with a SEK 750 million Credit Facilities Agreement entered into with Nordea Bank and Swedbank.Bong Ljungdahl, a leading European provider of specialised packaging and envelope products with ann...

Stockholm Public Transport (SL) has commissioned EuroMaint Rail to refurbish rolling stock currently in service on the Roslagsbanan line. The assignment, covering 101 carriages and running over 4 years, is estimated to be worth around SEK 400 million.SL w...

TV4 Group and Telenor Group have agreed on joint ownership for C More Entertainment. C More Entertainment operates Canal+ in the Nordic region and is a leading broadcaster in premium pay television in all the Nordic countries. Its channels of premium film...

Palamon Capital Partners, one of Europe’s leading mid-market private equity firms, has sold its majority stake in Nordax, a premier unsecured consumer loan businesses in the Nordic region, to Vision Capital. Nordax was established in 2003 by five highly e...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Sequoia Capital in its investment in Klarna, the Nordic region’s leading company for instalment and invoice based payment solutions within e-commerce.Mannheimer Swarling’s team included Fredrik Andretzky (Financial Institu...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Deutsche Bahn subsidiary DB Regio in connection with public tenders to deliver railway operations and maintenance services for the Östgötapendeln and Norrtågstrafiken railway lines in Sweden.Traffic-start on the Östgötapen...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Gothia Vind in connection with an agreement to divide and dissolve a wind power project portfolio jointly owned with SSE Renewables Sverige. Both companies will complete the development of their respective projects separat...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised the Electrolux Group in relation to a global outsourcing of application management and development services. The assignment was awarded to Accenture and covers development and management for applications including SAP, Cog...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Swedish wind power group O2 in connection with its recent investment and the financing of wind power farms in Brahehus and Granberg, consisting of a total of 14 wind power turbines with an effect of 28 MW. Commercial...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Deka Immobilien GmbH’s property fund, WestInvest ImmoValue, on the purchase of Bylingen, a property and ongoing office project in Stockholm, from Skanska. The purchase price was SEK 576 million and closing took place on 31...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised ScandBook Holding AB in connection with its listing on NASDAQ OMX First North.ScandBook, headquartered in Sweden, is a leading Nordic printer of hard-bound black-and-white books. The company, whose shares began trading on...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Kungsleden AB on the sale of 22 commercial properties to Corem Property Group AB for SEK 460 million.The portfolio consists of 22 warehouse and office properties located in western and central Sweden with gross leasable ar...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Avinode AB in connection with the acquisition of CharterX, Inc., a provider of aviation auditing and jet charter services in the United States.Avinode AB is the leading provider of B2B services for selling and buying jet c...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Inwido AB in connection with the acquisition of 30% of the shares in Inwido Danmark A/S from the company's former president. Following the acquisition, Inwido AB holds 95% of the shares in Inwido Danmark A/S.Inwido, a lead...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised the Ford Motor Company on the sale of Volvo and its assets to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group for USD 1.8 billion.The deal marks the largest acquisition of an overseas carmaker yet by a Chinese company and is expected to clos...

Mannheimer Swartling has assisted ÅF AB in its divestiture of ÅF-Kontroll to the German Dekra Group. Based on an Enterprise Value of 610 million SEK, Dekra paid 550 million for the shares in ÅF-Kontroll. ÅF-Kontroll offers third-party technical inspection...

Mannheimer Swartling is advising Anoto Group AB (publ) on the public partial cash offer by Aurora Investments Ltd. Anoto's share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. Mannheimer Swartling's team consists of Patrik Marcelius, Thomas Wallinder and Rasmus Fahlé...

Mannheimer Swartling is advising SAS, the leading airline group in Northern Europe, in connection with its SEK 1,6 billion convertible bonds issue, that was announced on 19 March 2010. The convertible bonds issue is part of SAS’s refinancing of SEK 2 bill...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Hilding Anders AB in connection with the acquisition of Dunlopillo A/S.Privately-held Hilding Anders AB is the leading bed and mattress manufacturer in Europe and Asia. The group has completed over 12 company acquisitions...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Ekstranda in the acquisition of an additional 44% of the shares in Sturehof AB. After the transaction, Ekstranda will own 93% of the shares in the company. Sturehof’s turnover for 2009 was SEK 186 million and its holdings...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised representatives from Sweden’s forestry industry on developing a service agreement standard for the sector, “Allmänna Bestämmelser för Skogsentreprenader, ABSE 09” (“General Provisions for Forestry Contractors”). The introd...

Mannheimer Swartling has been appointed legal adviser to the board of Tricorona in connection with the exchange offer announced by Opcon on 10 February 2010. Tricorona’s share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.Mannheimer Swartling’s team consists of Thoma...

Mannheimer Swartling advised Swedish Haléns Group on the acquisition of former Quelle subsidiaries in the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia and Slovakia.The Haléns Group is one of Sweden’s leading mail order and Internet sales companies with operations thro...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Coca-Cola Enterprises (“CCE”) in relation to its planned USD 820,000,000 acquisition of The Coca-Cola Company’s (“KO”) Swedish and Norwegian bottling business.Both CCE and KO are listed on the NYSE.  The acquisition i...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised 3i on the divestment of Nordic healthcare group Ambea to Triton for approximately EUR 850 million on a cash and debt free basis.3i is an international leader in private equity focusing on buyouts, growth capital and infras...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised ABB in connection with its acquisition of Jokab Safety International AB.Jokab Safety develops and offers innovative products and solutions for machine safety. Jokab Safety had a turnover of approximately SEK 240 million in...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Norrporten in connection with its acquisition of the Flat Iron Building, an ongoing office project in Stockholm, from Skanska for SEK 850 million.The acquisition of the Flat Iron Building, which comprises about 13,400 squa...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Höganäs AB in connection with a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility Agreement of EUR 175 million which was entered into between Höganäs AB and a syndicate of Nordic banks on 29 January 2010.Höganäs, the world's leading...

Mannheimer Swartling is advising SAS on a rights issue and refinancing of certain credit facilities to support the implementation of the Core SAS strategy. The rights issue is expected to raise approximately SEK 5 billion.SAS is the leading airline group...

Mannheimer Swartling has assisted Industrivärden on legal matters in connection with the directed issue of EUR 500 million in convertible bonds.The convertible bonds, marketed principally to European institutional investors, are to be listed and traded on...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Axel Johnson International on the divestment of AxMediTec to Indutrade subsidiary EssMed.AxMediTec is a Swedish technology sales company specialising in medical technology equipment and operating in Poland. The company has...

Mannheimer Swartling and Norwegian law firm Thommessen jointly advised Alipes AB on the acquisition of a majority position in Reflex AS.Alipes, an investment company financed by Inter IKEA and IKANO, focuses on retailing and consumer goods companies in th...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Derba Midroc Cement in connection with the procurement of trucks and trailers from the Volvo Truck Corporation for a large scale cement factory in Ethiopia. The agreement also includes transport competence development and...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised Travelstart in connection with the divestment of its Nordic online travel business to European Travel Interactive (eTRAVELi).Niklas Bogefors was responsible for the matter, assisted primarily by Teresa Hellmo, Fredrik Live...

EMS-CHEMIE Holding AG (Switzerland) divests German subsidiary EFTEC Aftermarket to Facilitas Bergeyk B.V., a privately-owned Dutch company. The business unit EMS-EFTEC, the worldwide leading manufacturer of bonding, coating, sealing and damping materials...

Mannheimer Swartling is advising Braganza on Braganza’s mandatory bid for Ticket Travel Group.Braganza is a Norwegian investment company wholly owned by Per G. Braathen and his family. Ticket is the largest leisure and corporate travel agency in Sweden an...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised BioInvent International in connection with a directed new share issue raising SEK 150 million and broadening the long-term industrial and international institutional ownership in BioInvent.BioInvent International, listed o...

Mannheimer Swartling has acted as legal advisor to AB Svensk Exportkredit in connection with AB Svensk Exportkredit's financing of the Russian company ZAO Hlebokombinat Inskoy´s acquisition of Swedish bakery equipment. Fredrik Svensson and Anna Babich wor...

Mannheimer Swartling has advised several individuals in a tax case before the Supreme Administrative Court in Sweden. The individuals were senior managers and had invested in shares of the company which employed them. Furthermore, these individuals were c...

Mannheimer Swartling has assisted The Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund in connection with the divesture of Götaverken Miljö AB to Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S.Götaverken Miljö AB, having its origin in shipyard and boiler manufacturer Götaverken, pro...