not meet wikipedia s general notability guideline . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources novator partners news newspapers books scholar jstor free images september 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message novator partners llp is an english private corporation specialising in telecommunications pharmaceuticals and financial services . in addition novator operates a private equity fund and a credit opportunities fund . the company is based in london and led by bj rg lfur thor bj rg lfsson from iceland . contents 1 owners 2 assets 3 references 4 external links owners edit the owner or owners of novator are hiding behind a web of companies which includes companies in places such as cyprus cayman islands delaware gibraltar tortola british virgin islands and luxembourg . 1 investigations published in denmark suggest that the underlying companies are linked to russian companies . 2 assets edit in a few years bjorgolfsson acquired substantial assets in central and southern eastern europe . 3 the communications sector acquisitions of the icelandic businessmen included in 2003 novator acquired a 70 % stake in czech telecoms company esk radiokomunikace for 120m . it owns 39.23 % of the shares in t mobile czech republic a.s. one of the two largest mobile operators in the czech republic . novator sold the stake three years later for 942m . 3 4 novator acquired the largest single stake in finnish telecom company elisa in 2005 for around 100m . the stake was sold in 2007 for 311m . 3 4 novator acquired a controlling stake in finnish telecom saunalahti . 3 novator acquired a 65 % stake in bulgarian telecommunications company for an undisclosed sum . in 2007 the stake was sold for 855m . 3 4 novator acquired a large stake in polish telecom p4 . 3 novator acquired a large stake in polish telecom netia in 2006 . 5 netia has the second largest fixed line network in poland . netia and novator announced that they are going to build a 4th mobile network in poland . 6 novator acquired a large stake in forthnet a greek internet service provider isp . exista acquired 100 % of s minn iceland telecom . in 2015 novator acquired 100 % of wom nextel chile es in chile . financial sector acquisitions included an 18.27 % stake in the economic & investment bank eibank in bulgaria which was previously 100 % owned bulgarian prime minister boyko borisov s domestic partner tsvetelina borislavova . 7 other acquisitions included in 2007 novator bought out other shareholders in actavis an icelandic pharmaceutical company . actavis acquired the new jersey based generic drug company amide pharmaceutical for us 500 million in 2005 . actavis acquired indian research company lotus laboratories novator acquired a 10.4 % stake in finland s telecommunications company elisa oyj in 2005 through a share swap when elisa bought the smaller operator saunalahti which had been mostly owned by novator . novator tried to revamp elisa in december 2007 but was opposed by finnish institutions such as varma mutual pension insurance company . on 13 october 2008 during the icelandic financial crisis it was announced that novator had sold its entire stake in elisa to varma for 194 million euros us 266 million a price of 11.20 share . 8 references edit slenskt f laganet og faldir eigendur . t und fr ttabla rsk mars 2009 . . the new times . 2008 10 21 . . another copy . rususa . 2008 10 21 . . an automatic translation discussion of the relationship between iceland and russia from the russian newspaper . . a b c d e f who is thor bjorgolfsson iceland s lone billionaire . invest in greece . 2006 01 20 . a b c icelandic billionaire s face the crunch . this is money . 2008 10 12 . 25.01.2006 information on acquisition of netia s shares . netia.pl . abc money finance news . abc money . bjorgolfsson gets eibank pursues bulgarian telecommunication company business the sofia echo . sofiaecho.com . suoninen sakari ; virki tarmo 2008 10 13 . update 2 novator sells elisa stake for 194 mln euros . reuters . retrieved 2009 02 15 . external links edit official website v t e private equity and venture capital basic investment types buyout venture mezzanine growth secondaries equity co investment history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s terms and concepts buyout financial sponsor management buyout divisional buyout buy sell agreement leveraged recapitalization dividend recapitalization venture angel investor business incubator post money valuation pre money valuation seed money startup company venture capital financing venture debt venture round structure private equity firms and funds limited partnership limited liability company carried interest management fee publicly traded private equity business development company venture capital trust private investment in public equity pipe pledge fund investors corporations institutional investors pension funds insurance companies fund of funds endowments foundations investment banks merchant banks commercial banks high net worth individuals family offices sovereign wealth funds crowdfunding related financial terms aum cap table capital call capital commitment capital structure distribution waterfall ebitda envy ratio high yield debt ipo irr leverage liquidation preference m & a pme taxation of private equity and hedge funds undercapitalization vintage year private equity and venture capital investors private equity firms venture capital firms angel investors portfolio companies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title novator partners & oldid 679600226 categories private equity firms of the united kingdomprivate equity companies of icelandfinancial services companies based in londonhidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from september 2009all articles with topics of unclear notabilityinterlanguage link template link numberuse dmy dates from september 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 5 september 2015 at 15 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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