EQT publishes 2025 Annual and Sustainability Report highlighting record exits and continued global expansion

EQT publishes 2025 Annual and Sustainability Report highlighting record exits and continued global expansion

(IN BRIEF) EQT AB has published its 2025 Annual and Sustainability Report, highlighting strong performance and strategic progress despite a volatile market environment. The firm reported EUR 30 billion in investments and a record EUR 34 billion in realizations, underscoring its disciplined investment approach and active exit strategy. Maintaining its leadership in Equity Capital Markets activity, EQT continues to expand its global private markets platform. CEO Per Franzén emphasized the company’s focus on client-centric growth and diversified investment strategies, while founder and Chairperson Conni Jonsson reflected on EQT’s transformation from a Nordic fund into a global investment firm managing EUR 270 billion in assets. As Jonsson prepares to step down, the report marks both a milestone in EQT’s history and a transition in its leadership, with the company positioning itself for continued long-term growth.

(PRESS RELEASE) STOCKHOLM, 23-Mar-2026 — /EuropaWire/ — EQT AB (publ) has released its Annual and Sustainability Report for 2025, providing a comprehensive overview of the firm’s development over the past three decades, with a particular focus on its progress since becoming a publicly listed company. The report outlines EQT’s long-term growth strategy and highlights its continued expansion as a global private markets investment firm.

During 2025, EQT demonstrated strong operational performance while navigating a challenging and volatile market environment. The firm maintained a disciplined approach to capital deployment, balancing investment activity with exits and effective cash flow management on behalf of its clients. Over the year, EQT completed total investments amounting to EUR 30 billion across its strategic focus areas, while achieving EUR 34 billion in realizations, marking its most active year for exits to date.

EQT also sustained its position as the leading private markets firm globally in terms of Equity Capital Markets activity, reflecting its continued strength in executing transactions at scale.

Per Franzén, who assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner at the 2025 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, emphasized the firm’s global reach and diversified investment platform. He noted that EQT has continued to enhance its capabilities, aligning its offerings with evolving client demands while reinforcing its ambition to be a client-focused private markets leader delivering strong performance and innovative solutions worldwide.

The report also features a final letter to shareholders from Conni Jonsson, EQT’s founder and long-standing Chairperson, ahead of his planned transition from the role at the upcoming Annual Shareholders’ Meeting in May 2026. Jonsson reflects on the firm’s evolution since its establishment in 1994, when it began as a Nordic-focused fund with EUR 300 million. Under his leadership, EQT has grown into a global investment organization managing EUR 270 billion in assets across more than 50 active funds, with operations spanning markets that account for over 80 percent of global GDP.

Jonsson highlighted the firm’s founding vision of combining long-term industrial ownership with an entrepreneurial investment approach, emphasizing both performance and values. Over the years, EQT has supported the development of nearly 700 portfolio companies while delivering consistent returns to investors. He also noted that, over the past 15 years, companies within EQT’s portfolio have collectively added approximately 260,000 employees during the firm’s ownership period, contributing to broader economic growth.

EQT AB has confirmed that its Annual Shareholders’ Meeting will take place on 12 May 2026 at 15:00 CEST, with further details to be announced in due course.

About EQT
EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies. With a Nordic heritage and a global mindset, EQT has a track record of more than three decades of developing companies across multiple geographies, sectors and strategies. EQT has investment strategies covering all phases of a business’ development, from start-up to maturity. EQT has EUR 270 billion in total assets under management (EUR 141 billion in fee-generating assets under management) as of 31 December 2025, within two business segments – Private Capital and Real Assets.

With its roots in the Wallenberg family’s entrepreneurial mindset and philosophy of long-term ownership, EQT is guided by a set of strong values and a distinct corporate culture. EQT manages and advises funds and vehicles that invest across the world with the mission to future-proof companies, generate attractive returns and make a positive impact with everything EQT does.

The EQT AB Group comprises EQT AB (publ) and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, which include general partners and fund managers of EQT funds as well as entities advising EQT funds. EQT has offices in more than 25 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas and has more than 1,900 employees.

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Olof Svensson, Head of Shareholder Relations, +46 72 989 09 15

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SOURCE: EQT