PE Firm EQT Sees Exits Ramping Up, Boosting Investor Returns (1)

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

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

The private equity firm in the first six months of the year, agreed to sell a majority stake in online real estate platform Idealista and completed the initial public offerings of ...