Managing Partner at Polaris Private Equity, Jan Johan Kühl, is speaking at the Nordic Private Capital Day organized by Private Equity Insights. You can read more about the conference here.    

The world’s leading safety training partner, RelyOn Nutec (formerly Falck Safety Services), changes name to consolidate global activities around one brand. With 34 locations across 20 countries, the company delivers safety and skills training to more than 250,000 people annually in oil & gas, maritime, renewables and other high-risk potential industries. The new name, RelyOn [...]

Polaris has entered into an agreement to divest its majority shareholding in Scandinavian Track Group (STG) to Track Group AB, owned by two of the original founders to the company, Patrik Stenberg and Henrik Svensson. Please see the press release below: Press Release For further information please contact: Polaris Jan Dahlqvist, Partner Phone: .+45 3525 [...]

We are pleased to announce that Polaris together with a consortium of co-investors have acquired 100% of the shares in Danica Pension Försäkringsaktiebolag (publ) (“Danica Pension Sweden”), the Swedish subsidiary of Danica Pension. Polaris is investing together with the financial services specialist investor Acathia and supported by several co-investors, including Sampension and Unigestion. Danica Pension [...]

Polaris is looking for an Analyst to join our team in Copenhagen part-time. Click here to learn more.

Polaris has been awarded “Best private equity house in Denmark 2018” by the business paper InsideBusiness. After a highly successful year with the sale of Louis Poulsen and the acquisitions of Menu, ProData Consult and Falck Safety Services, Polaris received the award after votes from 30 of the leading actors within the M&A industry in [...]

Molslinjen has acquired Danske Færger A/S from the Danish state and Clipper Group. Molslinjen will now operate an additional four ferry routes in Denmark. In total, Molslinjen operates nine ferry routes in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden as well as the express bus service called Kombardo Expressen. Please see the press release below: Dansk (Klik her) [...]

We are pleased to announce that Polaris has entered into an agreement with Falck to acquire 100% of its shares in Falck Safety Services Holding A/S (“FSS”) as well as all other safety activities within Falck. FSS is the world’s leading provider of safety trainings for the offshore, wind and maritime industries. The company currently [...]

Polaris has entered into an agreement to divest its majority shareholding in Louis Poulsen to Investindustrial Group Holdings SA, which is an investment subsidiary of Investindustrial VI L.P. (“Investindustrial”). Louis Poulsen has developed strongly under Polaris’ ownership since the acquisition in 2014, generating considerable revenue and earnings growth. The development has been driven by significant [...]

We are pleased to announce that Polaris has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority shareholding in ProData Consult, Denmark’s leading independent IT consultancy focused on business and IT consultants. Over 15 years, ProData Consult has generated an average annual growth in excess of 20% through the Group’s activities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, [...]