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EQT Group manages over $316 billion in assets.
The number of M&A transactions in Japan has increased by 60% year-to-date, driven by corporate reforms.
Activist shareholder campaigns in Japan have doubled from 50 to over 100 per year in the last few years.
Baring Private Equity Asia grew from $25 million to $25 billion in assets under management over a 25-year period before merging with EQT.
In 2022, Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) merged with EQT in a deal valued at $7 billion.
The European Commission has awarded EQT the mandate to manage the new $5 billion Scale-Up Europe Fund.
EQT owns EdgeConneX, a data center business with over 90 data centers that has increased its installed capacity by 20x over the past 6-7 years.
EQT has approximately $100 billion invested in the energy sector, spanning power generation, grid infrastructure, and storage.
Jean-Éric Salata believes there is a significant difference in the cost of AI compute per token between the US and China, which will become a greater focus for companies evaluating ROI.
EQT is in the process of acquiring secondaries firm Coller Capital.
EQT recently closed its latest Asia-focused fund at $15.6 billion, the largest fund ever raised for the region.
EQT had a record year for exits in the previous year, with $40 billion in distributions to investors.