Swarth Group

{{Short description|Israeli private equity company}}

{{notability|corp|date=July 2021}}

Swarth Group is a private equity company, owned by Israeli investor Shaul Shani.{{cite web | title=Swarth Group to buy Dankner’s GVT stake | website=TeleGeography | date=2008-09-15 | url=https://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2008/09/15/swarth-group-to-buy-dankners-gvt-stake/ | access-date=2019-09-11}}{{Primary source inline|date=July 2021}} In 2007, it purchased Israeli ECI Telecom for $1.24 billion.{{cite web | last=Shimoni | first=Eli | title=ECI Telecom gets $800M deal with BT | website=ynetnews | date=2010-07-08 | url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3916285,00.html | access-date=2019-09-11}} The company headquarters are in Petah Tikva, Israel.{{cite book|last=Plunkett|first=Jack W.|title=Plunkett's E-Commerce & Internet Business Almanac 2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jbc11TKDTaYC&pg=PT286|date=March 2009|publisher=Plunkett Research, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-59392-115-6|page=286}} The company specialises in Telecoms. In 2008, it acquired a 16.44% share of GVT Holding, which owns GVT Holland, and itself owns 22.9% of Brazilian telecom firm Global Village Telecom. The stake was purchased from Nochi Dankner's Discount Investment Corporation Ltd. In 2009 Swarth group sold its holding in GVT to Vivendi the deal reflects a 15.8% premium on the price paid for it by Swarth in 2008.{{cite web | title=Vivendi makes $3b tilt for Brazil's GVT | website=Telecom Asia | date=2019-09-11 | url=https://telecomasia.net/content/vivendi-makes-3b-tilt-brazils-gvt | access-date=2019-09-11}}