Bure Equity is a Swedish investment company involved in communications, textiles, training, and education. It is the largest private school operator in Sweden. This role gained it international attention in connection to the rise of

independent school An independent school is independent in its finances and governance. Also known as private schools, non-governmental, privately funded, or non-state schools, they are not administered by local, state or national governments. In British Eng ...

s in Sweden. Bure Equity owns

Vittra Vittra Utbildning AB (''Vittra Education'') is a Swedish education company that operates schools. The company runs 27 schools in Sweden and other schools in Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northe ...

, a company that runs schools in Sweden and other countries. On the 11 February 2009 Altor Fund III and Bure Equity AB signed an agreement to acquire

Carnegie Investment Bank Carnegie Investment Bank AB is a Swedish financial services group with activities in securities brokerage, investment banking and private banking. Founded in 1803, Carnegie is headquartered in Stockholm with offices across the Nordic region, as ...

, a leading independent Nordic investment bank, from the

Swedish National Debt Office The Swedish National Debt Office ( sv, Riksgäldskontoret or shortly ''Riksgälden'') was founded by Gustav III at the Riksdag of the Estates in 1789, through the Act of union and security. It is a Swedish Government agency. The first task of the ...

. The total net asset value on 31 December 2016 amounted to six billion kroner and the largest holdings were in the companies Mycronic and Vitrolife. The company also has shares in, among others, the industrial company Cavotec, the pharmaceutical company MedCap, the medical technology company Xvivo Perfusion and the auction company Lauritz.com. Henrik Blomquist took over as CEO in 2014.

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