About This Fund
AURELIUS Opportunities V is the fifth flagship buyout vehicle of AURELIUS Group, a Munich-based private equity firm specializing in corporate carve-outs, complex restructurings, and mid-market buyouts across Europe. The fund held its final close in June 2025 at €830 million, significantly oversubscribing its initial target and completing the raise in under five months — a testament to strong investor conviction in the AURELIUS operational playbook. This represents a meaningful step up from Opportunities Fund IV, which closed at €540 million in 2021.
Fund V continues the established AURELIUS strategy of acquiring companies from large corporates seeking to streamline their portfolios, as well as platform build-ups and complex owner-managed business transitions. The fund targets companies with revenues in excess of €100 million and deploys equity tickets of up to €200 million per transaction, focusing on the lower-to-mid market where operational improvement and strategic repositioning can generate superior returns. Geographic coverage spans continental Europe with selective opportunities in North America, reflecting the increasingly cross-border nature of carve-out deal flow originating from multinational corporations.
The investor base for Opportunities V saw over 90 percent of Fund IV limited partners recommit, joined by new blue-chip institutional allocators including endowments, pension funds, insurance companies, and charitable foundations. This high recommitment rate reflects the strong realized returns from the predecessor fund and confidence in the AURELIUS management team's ability to execute on complex operational value creation plans. With €830 million in fresh capital, AURELIUS is positioned to pursue its disciplined acquisition approach across sectors including industrials, business services, consumer goods, and healthcare in the near term.