Aurelius Group
| Industry | Asset Management |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2005 |
| Founders |
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Key people | Dirk Markus, Gert Purkert, Donatus Albrecht, Matthias Täubl, Tristan Nagler |
| Divisions |
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| Website | www |
Aurelius is a global investor with offices in Amsterdam, London, Luxembourg, Malta, Milan, Munich, New York, and Stockholm.[1] The company focuses on alternative investment, private equity, private debt and real estate investments.
History
[edit]In 2005, Dirk Markus and Gert Purkert, both former McKinsey consultants, founded Aurelius as a privately held investment vehicle investing in small- and medium-sized companies.
In 2006 listed subsidiary Aurelius AG (today: AUR Portfolio III SE & Co. KGaA, not listed anymore) was set up with a start-up capital of €500,000.[2]
In April 2021, Aurelius announced that it had launched a more than €500 million investment fund specializing in corporate spin-offs and companies in transition, whose investors include US and European university endowments, pension funds, insurance companies and family offices.[3]
Recent exits
[edit]connexta, an IT services platform, was sold by Aurelius Wachstumskapital (Growth Investments) to the private equity investor Fremman Capital in 2023.[4]
Scandinavian Cosmetics Group was sold to Accent Equity for €60 million in October 2019.[5][6]
The solid board and printed carton business of the Smurfit Kappa Group, acquired in April 2015, with production sites in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK, which was later renamed Solidus Solutions, was sold to Centerbridge in June 2019 for €330 million. This was the largest exit in the company's history to date for Aurelius.[7]
In 2017, it sold Getronics for €220 million;[8] it had been acquired from KPN in 2012.[9] That year, it also sold Secop for €185 million, which had been acquired from Danfoss in 2010.[10]
Others
[edit]Non-profit charity Aurelius Refugee Initiative e.V. Aurelius conducts a support and aid program for people with a migration background.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "DGAP-News: AURELIUS Group to expand its management team". Business Insider. July 17, 2018.
- ^ "Registerportal". HRB 221100. www.handelsregister.de (in German). 10 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2007-01-03. Retrieved 2019-01-22.
- ^ "Aurelius wird zum Midcap-Investor" (in German). 19 April 2021. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ "Wachstum soll beschleunigt werden: Connexta mit neuem Investor". www.channelpartner.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-02-23.
- ^ Colyer, Jack. "Aurelius sells Nordic cosmetics group to Accent for €60m - Private Equity News". www.penews.com. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ "Aurelius exits Scandinavian Cosmetics to Accent Equity | PitchBook". pitchbook.com. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ "AURELIUS sells Solidus Solutions for EUR330m | Private Equity Wire". www.privateequitywire.co.uk. 2019-07-01. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ "BRIEF-Aurelius sells Getronics Group". Reuters. 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
- ^ "Getronics sold off in KPN shake-up". MicroscopeUK. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
- ^ CNBC (2017-04-24). "Nidec to Acquire Secop Group (Secop Holding GmbH and Other 3 Entities), a German Compressor Manufacturer". www.cnbc.com. Archived from the original on 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
- ^ Witkowsky, Chris (2020-07-24). "Aurelius Equity-backed Office Depot Europe agrees to sell Spanish contract business to Lyreco". PE Hub. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
