Scheme Announced Sponsor buyer
EQT AB Group acquisition of Cleanaway Waste Management
A$9.3bn enterprise value
Announced 19 Oct 2026 · ASX: CWY · A$3.10 cash per share · 32% premium
Advisers
Cleanaway Waste Management
Target
- Financial adviser
- Legal adviser
- Independent expert
Sedum Group
Acquirer
- Legal adviser
- Target
- Cleanaway Waste Management
- Acquirer
- Sedum Group
- Sponsor
- EQT AB Group
- Seller
- Cleanaway shareholders (ASX-listed public company)
- Structure
- Scheme of arrangement
- Sector
- Waste and environmental services
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Sources
- 18 Oct 2026 EQT agrees to acquire Cleanaway, a leading Australian integrated waste management and resource recovery platform eqtgroup.com
- 19 Oct 2026 Scheme Implementation Deed with EQT Infrastructure ASX
- 19 Oct 2026 EQT To Acquire Cleanaway In A$9.3 Billion Deal pulse2.com
- 20 Oct 2026 Allens advises EQT on proposed $9.3bn acquisition of Cleanaway allens.com.au
- 22 Oct 2026 EQT to Acquire Cleanaway Waste Management in $9.3 Billion Take-Private Transaction globallegalchronicle.com
- 29 Oct 2026 Ashurst Perkins Coie advises Cleanaway on proposed A$9.3 billion acquisition by EQT ashurstperkinscoie.com



