AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA

AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA operates as a specialist private equity firm, concentrating on acquiring, revitalizing, and divesting businesses facing unique challenges. Their expertise lies in a broad spectrum of complex transactions, including corporate carve-outs, management buyouts (MBOs), management buy-ins (MBIs), and public-to-private (P2P) deals. They also drive industry consolidation and strategic bolt-on acquisitions to enhance existing platform investments. The firm actively targets companies undergoing "special situations," such as corporate spin-offs, complex carve-outs, or businesses struggling with succession planning. They are particularly interested in medium-sized enterprises grappling with significant operational difficulties or high debt burdens impacting their balance sheet. AURELIUS considers both privately held and publicly listed entities across a diverse range of sectors. These include industrial companies, chemicals, information technology, business services, lifestyle brands, consumer goods, food and beverage, and the broader telecoms, media, and technology (TMT) landscape. Geographically, their investment focus is squarely on Europe, with a particular emphasis on developed European markets and the Nordic region. Financially, AURELIUS typically commits up to €250 million in total capital, with individual deal sizes ranging from €5 million to €80 million. They look for companies generating annual revenues between €30 million and €750 million, and with EBITDA margins spanning from negative to over 15 percent. For UK-based opportunities, the firm can invest up to £70 million in businesses with revenues from £30 million to £1 billion. AURELIUS primarily targets acquiring a majority, and ideally a 100%, equity stake in underperforming businesses that possess clear development potential. The ultimate goal is to realize returns through divestment, either by selling to private, institutional, or industrial buyers, or via an initial public offering (IPO). Established on March 20, 2006, the firm's headquarters are in Grünwald, Germany, complemented by a network of offices across major European cities including Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Stockholm, and Dusseldorf.