Aurelius Group
Aurelius is a global alternative investor with offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, London, Luxembourg, Malta, Milan, Munich, New York, and Stockholm. The company focuses on private equity, private debt and real estate investments.
History
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 was set up with a start-up capital of.
In April 2021, Aurelius launched AURELIUS Opportunities Fund IV, a more than €500 million investment fund specializing in complex corporate carve-outs and operational transformation. Its investors include US and European university endowments, pension funds, insurance companies and family offices.
AURELIUS Opportunities Fund V followed in June 2025 with €830m in committed capital. It pursues the same investment strategy as Fund IV and has largely the same investors.
Recent exits
connexta, an IT services platform, was sold by Aurelius Wachstumskapital to the private equity investor Fremman Capital in 2023.Scandinavian Cosmetics Group was sold to Accent Equity for €60 million in October 2019.
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.
In 2017, it sold Getronics for €220 million; it had been acquired from KPN in 2012. That year, it also sold Secop for €185 million, which had been acquired from Danfoss in 2010.