Operator
Good morning. My name is Sakao, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time. I would like to welcome everyone to Dun & Bradstreet s fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 conference call [Operator instructions] With that, I would now like to turn the call over to Deb McCann, treasurer and senior vice president of investor relations and corporate FP&A.
You may proceed.
Treasurer and Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate FP&A
Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for Dun & Bradstreet s financial results conference call for the fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, 2020. On the call today, we have Dun & Bradstreet s CEO, Anthony Jabbour; and CFO, Bryan Hipsher. Before we begin, allow me to provide a disclaimer regarding forward-looking statements.
US & EUROPE – Commercial data and analytics firm Dun & Bradstreet has acquired European data analytics firm Bisnode.
Dun & Bradstreet completed the acquisition of Stockholm-headquartered Bisnode for an enterprise value of 7.2bn SEK. The deal closed with a combination of around £625m net cash and 6,237,089 newly issued shares of common stock of the company.
The acquisition did not include Bisnode Belgium NV, a Belgian subsidiary of Bisnode, which remains under the ownership of Ratos AB.
Bisnode operates in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and central European countries. The company was previously part of the Dun & Bradstreet Worldwide Network.
Anthony Jabbour, chief executive officer, Dun & Bradstreet