Business
AI summaryRatos AB is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts, turnarounds, add-on acquisitions, and middle market transactions, focusing on unlisted medium-sized companies while avoiding early-stage businesses and companies in the arms industry, pornography, or activities harmful to the environment. It invests across industry and technology, construction and services, and consumer sectors, typically in the Nordic region with a focus on Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway, targeting equity investments between SEK250 million and SEK5000 million in companies with sales of SEK300 million to SEK5000 million and EBITDA above SEK50 million. The firm takes both minority and majority stakes, prefers to be the principal owner with at least a 20 percent holding and a board seat, and generally holds investments for five to ten years. Ratos was founded in 1866 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.