Platinum Equity completes sale of Urbaser to Blackstone, EQT for $6.6 billion

PUBT · 1d ago
Platinum Equity completes sale of Urbaser to Blackstone, EQT for $6.6 billion
  • Platinum Equity completed the sale of Madrid-based waste and environmental services group Urbaser to Blackstone and EQT.
  • Transaction valued at about USD 6.6 billion, or EUR 5.6 billion.
  • Platinum acquired Urbaser in October 2021 from China Tianying for about USD 4.2 billion, or EUR 3.5 billion.
  • Platinum retained Urbaser’s Argentina waste management business, which generated about USD 90 million of EBITDA in 2025.
  • Urbaser operates with more than 38,000 employees, serving over 60 million people across municipal and industrial waste services.


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