Nordic buys Czech-based outsourcer

Acquisition of industrial maintenance firm marks a rare deal outside Nordic Capital's key terriritories

Wednesday 20 August 2014 at 07:00

Scandinavian buyout firm Nordic Capital has acquired an outsourcing division of multinational ABB Group, completing a corporate carve-out as buyout firms chase for primary assets.

In a statement, Nordic said it has signed an agreement to buy ABB Full Service, a Czech Republic-based industrial outsourcer, with the transaction expected to finish in the fourth quarter of 2014.