EQT agrees to acquire Intertek for £9.3bn
- Location
- London · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Sector
- Services
- Organisations
- EQT (über Isotope Bidco Limited; Minderheitsanteile Luxinva und Mubadala) ↔ Intertek Group plc
- Transaction
- Acquisition (recommended final cash offer, scheme of arrangement)
- Volume
- £60.00 per share in cash plus 107.7p final dividend (£61.077 total); equity value about £9.3bn (£9.5bn incl. dividend), enterprise value about £10.7–10.9bn
- Status
- announced
Swedish investor EQT (EQT X funds) agreed on 18 June 2026 with the board of UK testing and certification group Intertek (Total Quality Assurance, 100+ countries) a recommended final cash offer of £60 per share plus the 107.7p final dividend — equity value about £9.3 billion (£9.5 billion incl. dividend), enterprise value about £10.7–10.9 billion. To be implemented via a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement, completion expected in Q4 2026 or Q1 2027 (RNS/Investegate, 18 June 2026; Yahoo Finance/Reuters). Note: the transaction had not previously been recorded in the tracker.
Source: investegate.co.uk ↗ · Archived copy ↗
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