Equity raising and acquisition finance for RushRail (SE)

Carnegie acted as sole financial adviser to RushRail in a private placement of shares and an acquisition financing for locomotives by way of leasing. RushRail is an independent Swedish rail freight operator, has signed a multi-year contract with Trätåg AB, a logistics company owned by Stora Enso and Korsnäs, to operate a rail freight system of timber and other forest raw materials between a number of timber terminals and pulp and paper mills in central Sweden.May, 2012.