EQT, the private equity investment firm, completed in January 2017 an acquisition through fund EQT VII of AutoStore – a unique automated storage and retrieval system which uses robotics for collecting stored goods in a warehouse with more than 130 installations to date in 22 countries.

The acquisition was financed inter alia by a senior secured credit facility made available by five Nordic banks with DNB Bank ASA acting as agent. For further information, see press release by EQT here.

Arntzen de Besche's team acting for the lenders has been led by Atle Gabrielsen, partner at our banking & finance group, assisted by Atle Stensrud and Andreas Rabe.