Texas Pacific Group, the US private equity firm, hired Goldman Sachs to sell 24m shares worth Nkr 618m (€75.2m) in Findexa, the Norwegian directories publisher, less than a year after it ran the IPO with two other banks.

Goldman sold the shares at Nkr25.75 each, a 4.3% discount to yesterday's Nkr26.90 price. The shares were down 4.8% today at Nkr25.60. They were floated at Nkr25.