Aurelia Capital
Aurelia Capital Partners is a Global independent investment and corporate finance firm, primarily focussed on Emerging Markets, raising over $2.5 billion for investment across the African continent. We act on behalf of business owners, structuring debt and executing capital markets solutions, including raising private equity funds and advising on Mergers and Acquisitions and providing bespoke solutions for Ultra High Net Worth Individuals through the Aurelia Private Office and Ophelia Investment Trust.
About
Aurelia Capital
Today, our firm has over 25 years of experience investing in Africa. We have completed deals across a wide variety of sectors including consumer businesses, telecommunications, financial services, natural resources, agriculture, and utilities, and we have a strong portfolio of remaining transactions. Our clients include private shareholders, Governments, private equity houses, Investment Funds and large corporations. Combining our experience as both advisors and principals together with a superior, independent approach enables us to deliver the best results for our clients. We are focused on acting as lead corporate finance advisors that have a strong capacity to manage and execute transactions.
Through the Aurelia Investment Fund, we are capable of investing in growing businesses across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. We seek to partner with businesses and teams who are as passionate as we are about the opportunities flowing from the Emerging Markets world given the potential for growth. We aim to translate this into superior returns for our investors and the people with whom we invest and advise on behalf of.
TRANSACTION TYPES
Aurelia Capital pursues investments using a variety of transaction types. We focus on catering to sellers’ needs and are differentiated by our efficient due diligence, lack of bureaucratic committees, flexibility, and strength in creative structuring
- Leveraged and Management Buyouts
- Corporate Divestures
- Buy-and-Build / Roll-ups
- Growth Equity
- Special Situations
- Public to Privates
INDUSTRY FOCUS
Aurelia Capital is a sector specialist investor. We are passionate about infrastructure, commodities, and innovation. Our differentiation comes from our deep sector expertise and industry network which we leverage to deliver superior value to our investors and companies
- Infrastructure
- Industrial
- Oil & Gas
- FMCG
INVESTMENT SIZE
Aurelia Capital’s investments are typically profitable, established businesses (although profitability is not required)
- $5m to $120m revenue
- $5m to $40m per investment (ability to invest up to $80m)
INVESTMENT CHARACTERISTICS
We are focused on investing in companies that can be transformed through operational best practices and where we see significant value creation potential. Aurelia Capital invests in businesses with all or some of the following characteristics.
- Mission-critical, “sticky” products and services
- Existing or potential recurring revenue
- Longstanding customer relationships
- Strong management team
- Scalable platform in a fragmented industry
- Defensible market position
- Ownership of intellectual property
Aurelia Private Office
Backed by High Net Worth Individuals in the Middle East and Africa, structuring and co-investing with Our Private Office, managing assets and delivering a comprehensive and independent outsourced private office service to go beyond investment decisions, we offer a holistic and distinctive service.
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Sectors That We Principally Focus On
- Transportation infrastructure (including port facilities, railways, airports and toll roads)
- Telecommunications projects
- Oil and gas facilities
- Water treatment and desalination projects
- Financial markets and banking projects
- Independent power projects
- Industrial and manufacturing projects
- LNG projects
- Oil and gas facilities
- Petrochemical projects
- Power transmission and distribution projects
