About This Fund
AURELIUS Opportunities Fund V is the fifth flagship private equity fund raised by AURELIUS Group, a Munich-headquartered special situations and mid-market private equity firm with over twenty years of operational history. The fund closed in June 2025 at its hard cap of €830 million, having been significantly oversubscribed in a fundraising process completed in fewer than five months — a compelling demonstration of institutional confidence in the manager's track record during a selective fundraising environment. The investor base includes blue-chip endowments and healthcare foundations from the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Asia, alongside a core of established returning institutional backers who have supported prior AURELIUS vehicles.
The fund's investment mandate centers on three transaction types that define AURELIUS's distinctive edge in private equity: corporate carve-outs from large multinational groups, platform build-ups through structured add-on acquisition strategies, and complex buyouts of businesses undergoing operational or structural transformation. Target portfolio companies typically generate revenues of at least €100 million, placing the fund squarely in the European and North American mid-market. AURELIUS deploys proprietary operational management capabilities through its resident management teams and in-house value creation specialists, which are embedded within portfolio companies immediately post-acquisition to drive EBITDA improvement and strategic repositioning.
AURELIUS Group has built a top-decile performance record spanning two decades and multiple economic cycles, including periods of significant market stress. The decision to cap Fund V at €830 million — despite substantially higher investor demand — reflects the firm's deliberate commitment to investment discipline and return preservation, ensuring that fund size remains matched to deployment capacity in a market where deal quality, not quantity, drives outcomes. Fund V represents the continuation of a long-term institutional partnership model underpinned by consistent operational value creation across European and North American mid-market assets.