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Stirling Square Capital Partners (“Stirling Square”), a leading pan-European mid-market private equity firm, today announced an additional investment in portfolio company DOCU Nordic Group Holdings AB (“DOCU Nordic” or the “Company”) in partnership with TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm. TA Associates will acquire a significant minority stake in the Company from Stirling Square’s Third Fund alongside Stirling Square’s Fourth Fund, which becomes the majority shareholder in DOCU Nordic.

Headquartered in Ljusdal, Sweden, DOCU Nordic is the leading provider of business intelligence and data analytics services within the construction, real estate and healthcare markets in Scandinavia, Central Europe and Iberia.

During Stirling Square’s Third Fund’s ownership, DOCU Nordic substantially developed its product offerings and capabilities while expanding its geographic reach. The Company recently announced the acquisition of Vortal in Portugal, which will add strategic e-tendering capabilities and a presence in Iberia. The new investment is the latest step in DOCU Nordic’s aim to create the leading construction technology and construction management eco-system in Europe, with significant opportunity for future buy-and-build activity.

Henrik Lif, Partner of Stirling Square, commented: “We believe that DOCU Nordic is an outstanding business that provides business critical and high-value services to a broad customer base. We are delighted to continue our investment journey with the Company in partnership with TA Associates. DOCU Nordic has demonstrated industry leading innovation in the construction, real estate and healthcare sectors. With the recent acquisition of Vortal in Portugal, the Company takes a further step geographically with the leading public e-tendering platform in Southern Europe. We look forward to continuing our work with senior management on organic growth and buy-and-build opportunities across Europe.”

Naveen Wadhera, Managing Director of TA Associates, said: “Given our focus on partnering with market leading, profitable and growing businesses, DOCU Nordic offers a compelling investment opportunity for TA. We see particular opportunity to help accelerate the Company’s growth and to expand both product offerings and geographic reach through accretive acquisitions. We are excited to partner with Stirling Square and DOCU Nordic’s management team to help build additional value for the Company.”

Stefan Lindqvist, CEO of DOCU Nordic, added: “We are delighted to have the opportunity to further build on the past three years of partnership with Stirling Square, and we welcome TA Associates, an experienced global investor in the technology sector, as a new partner. We look forward to working closely with both owners as we open a new chapter in DOCU Nordic’s success story.”

Mr. Henrik Lif, Mr. Ben Hopper and Mr Raphael Mukomilow of Stirling Square and Mr. Naveen Wadhera and Mr. Max Cancre of TA Associates will serve on the DOCU Nordic Board of Directors.

Stirling Square Capital Partners (“Stirling Square”), a leading pan-European mid-market private equity firm, today announces the acquisition of DOCU Nordic Group Holdings AB (“DOCU Nordic” or the “Company”).

DOCU Nordic is the leading provider of business intelligence and data analytics services essential in the generation of sales leads within the construction, real estate and healthcare markets across the Nordic region. Headquartered in Ljusdal, Sweden, the Company maintains market leading positions in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.

DOCU Nordic’s core business is Project & Product Information services, which provides intelligence for construction market participants and connects materials suppliers and contractors with developers and advisers (such as architects). Together, the Project & Product Information services segment maintains a proprietary centralised database of more than 94,000 construction projects and 16,000 building products, serving a subscriber base of over 22,000 customers across the entire construction value chain. DOCU Nordic additionally offers comparable products in the Commercial Property and Healthcare spaces.

Stefano Bonfiglio, Managing Partner of Stirling Square, commented: “DOCU Nordic is the clear leader in its space, providing valuable transparency in the highly fragmented and complex construction industry. Together with DOCU Nordic’s management team we look forward to evolving the Company to create an eco-system of intelligence among industry participants.”

Henrik Lif of Stirling Square commented: “DOCU Nordic is a terrific business providing mission-critical services to a broad customer base. As we look to the company’s future we see significant opportunity to more deeply integrate with existing customers, expand product offerings in established segments, and develop its footprint beyond the Nordics.”

Stefan Lindqvist, CEO of DOCU Nordic added: “With Stirling Square as new majority owner, we look forward to continuing our efforts to improve and expanding our offering of information services in existing and new markets.”

The transaction represents the eighth platform investment in Stirling Square’s Third Fund, and Stirling Square’s first platform investment in Sweden.