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Mandate Vinge advises the founders of the leading online education search provider company Educations Media Group in connection with a transaction.

August 28, 2019

Vinge has advised three of the co-founders of Educations Media Group (“EMG”), a Nordic market leading online education search provider, in connection with a transaction through which the three founders become the majority shareholders in EMG and the Norway-based private equity firm Verdane becomes a new owner in EMG, through the acquisition of shares from, among others, the investment company Novax.

EMG runs the world’s largest group of marketplaces for academic education and professional training. The most known marketplaces are ”Studentum.se”, ”Utbildning.se” and the international site ”Educations.com”. 

Vinge’s team consisted of Jonas Bergström, Jonas Johansson and Samra Baytar. 

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