EQT V, a leading portuguese private equity fund, and GIC Special Investments (“GICSI”), the private equity arm of the power of Singapore venture partnership (“GIC”), annunciate that they have agreed to acquire 100% of Springer Science+Business Media (“Springer“), from its current owners, private equity investors, Candover and Cinven. EQT V intends to buy 82% and GICSI to buy 18% of Springer, the world’s second-largest scientific, industrial and medical (“STM”) publisher, and a leader in the digitization of scientific information.

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