EQT AB (“EQT”) is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement to acquire Coller Capital (“Coller” or “Coller Capital”, and the “Transaction”), a global secondaries firm with nearly USD 50 billion in total assets under management (USD 33 billion in fee-generating assets under management).
Founded in 1990, Coller Capital is one of the largest dedicated secondaries firms globally with a 35-year track record of innovation in the fast-growing secondaries markets. The firm provides liquidity solutions to both general partners and limited partners, investing across private equity secondaries and private credit secondaries. Headquartered in the UK, Coller Capital has a global team of 330 professionals, including 77 investment professionals, based in 11 offices around the world. Coller Capital offers a diversified client proposition spanning institutional funds, private wealth evergreen products and insurance-dedicated solutions.
The Transaction brings together EQT’s global scale, established multi-strategy platform and active ownership model with Coller Capital’s specialist secondaries expertise, data and analytics capabilities developed over a 35-year history and a track record of consistently delivering strong investment performance and innovative solutions across secondaries. This combination advances EQT’s ambition to build the most attractive private markets firm of scale, delivering industry-leading performance and solutions globally. Together, the two firms will be able to strengthen relationships and opportunities with institutional, private wealth and insurance-related clients while creating a deeper global EQT platform across private equity, infrastructure, real estate and secondaries.
Strategic rationale
Private markets are shaped by broader demand for strategic liquidity tools, longer-term ownership models and continued product innovation. This trend reinforces the strategic importance of secondaries – a market that grew 41% in 2025 with deal volumes reaching USD 226 billion – and is expected to more than double by 2030. As private markets evolve, the combination with Coller Capital is a natural extension of EQT’s platform to strengthen its relevance for both institutional and private wealth clients.
As clients seek to deepen their relationships with fewer firms, the combination also positions EQT to benefit from greater scale with a diversified platform of high-performing investment strategies across asset classes. The Transaction creates a global EQT platform across private equity, infrastructure, real estate and secondaries, with offices in key global markets.
Coller Capital’s specialist secondaries capabilities, first-quartile investment performance track record and culture of innovation complement EQT’s active ownership model and future-proofing capabilities. The combination brings together two global firms with European roots who share closely aligned values, including a rigorous focus on investment performance, a culture of innovation and the ambition to be a strategic partner for their clients.
The combination will unlock growth opportunities for both platforms:
- Expand into adjacent secondaries across real assets to accelerate Coller Capital’s growth beyond private equity and credit secondaries
- Utilize the combined global platform to scale Coller Capital’s secondaries platform in the fast-growing and structurally underpenetrated Asian markets with a combined on-the-ground presence of approximately 390 FTEs
- Strengthen institutional client relationships through an enhanced product offering and the ability to deliver integrated solutions and client servicing across cycles
- Accelerate EQT’s private wealth offering by adding four evergreen products with a total NAV of USD 4.1 billion, while leveraging Coller Capital’s existing strategic partnership with State Street to scale global distribution, as well as EQT’s brand and marketing, and global institutional relationships
- Build out insurance-dedicated solutions across secondaries and the broader EQT platform, building on Coller Capital’s strong position, in-house structuring capabilities and insurance market expertise
- Drive continued innovation in secondaries by applying EQT’s digital, data and AI capabilities to client solutions
Per Franzén, CEO and Managing Partner of EQT, said, “Entering the secondaries space with Coller represents a natural and important step in EQT’s strategic development. Secondaries have become an increasingly important tool for clients in managing liquidity and portfolio construction, and in supporting long-term ownership of high-quality assets. Coller is a global leader in this field, with deep expertise. The transaction unlocks growth opportunities for both firms. Together, I believe we can double the size of Coller’s business in less than four years. As a combined firm, we will be exceptionally well positioned to deliver integrated solutions across both primary and secondary markets, underpinned by a disciplined focus on performance.”
Jeremy Coller, Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner of Coller Capital, said, “This partnership marks a defining moment for Coller. We are bringing more than 35 years of secondaries expertise to EQT to realize our shared ambition to shape the future of private markets. The opportunities ahead are compelling, from accelerating innovation in secondaries to broadening the secondary solutions we can deliver to investors worldwide. As Coller EQT, we will maintain our strong alignment with our investors and the independence of our world class origination and investment process. Together, we are exceptionally well positioned to deliver best-in-class private market solutions for our investors.”
As part of the Transaction, the current Coller Capital minority shareholder, State Street, will become a shareholder in EQT. Yie-Hsin Hung, President and CEO of State Street Investment Management, said, “We see this as an exciting evolution in our strategic partnership with Coller Capital. We are keen to expand our engagement efforts to include EQT’s breadth of capabilities, as well as the opportunity for Coller Capital to expand its secondaries offering to include real assets, strengthening the platform. Together with EQT, we look forward to improving access to private markets solutions and innovating for clients worldwide seeking diversification and better outcomes.”
Organizational set-up and governance
Following the Transaction’s closing, Coller Capital will form a new business platform within EQT, to be branded “Coller EQT”. Coller EQT will form part of a new Secondaries business segment, alongside EQT’s existing Private Capital and Real Assets segments. Jeremy Coller will become Head of Coller EQT, reporting directly to Per Franzén, EQT’s CEO and Managing Partner, and join EQT’s Executive Committee. Coller EQT’s origination and investment process will remain independent.
Key Transaction details
- EQT will acquire 100% of the Coller Capital management company, the Coller Capital general partner entities which control the Coller Capital funds, and 10% of carried interest in the most recent private equity secondaries flagship fund (CIP IX), which had a final close on 31 December 2025 at USD 10.2 billion in fee-generating commitments, resulting in a total fund size of USD 14.2 billion
- EQT will be entitled to invest in 35% of the carried interest in all future closed-ended funds of Coller Capital, in line with existing EQT policies
- Base consideration of USD 3.2 billion on a cash and debt free basis, to be funded in EQT ordinary shares to be issued at closing at a set price of SEK 355 per share (the “Base Consideration Shares”), corresponding to approximately 81 million shares (corresponding to approximately 7% of shares outstanding). The Base Consideration Shares will be entitled to dividends with record dates post-closing
- Contingent consideration of up to USD 500 million based on Coller Capital’s business performance in the 12 months up to and including March 2029, to be funded in cash but with commitment from certain key members of Coller Capital’s management (receiving approximately 64% of the contingent consideration) to reinvest the net contingent consideration proceeds in ordinary EQT shares (see further under “Share consideration and lock-up”)
- The Transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals and certain Coller Capital fund investor consent approvals. The Transaction is expected to close in Q3 2026
- If closing of the Transaction has not been completed by EQT’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on 12 May 2026, the Transaction is further conditional upon EQT’s shareholders authorizing the Board of EQT to issue the Base Consideration Shares
- The Transaction is expected to be mid-single-digit accretive to EQT’s fee-related earnings
