DGAP-News: AURELIUS SE & Co. KGaA / Key word(s): Disposal AURELIUS concludes successful disposal of hotel property portfolio 04.01.2016 / 07:35 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AURELIUS concludes successful disposal of hotel property portfolio - Transfer of ownership completed for all four properties in December 2015 - Strong contribution in high double-digit millions to 2015 profits Munich, January 4, 2016 - The AURELIUS Group (ISIN DE000A0JK2A8) has completed the sale of its four hotel properties in Hanover and the Glockenbachviertel, Isarvorstadt and Nymphenburg districts of Munich. The transfer of ownership for the three Munich locations has been concluded with effect from December 31, 2015, after the closing for the transaction in Hanover had already been completed in mid-December. AURELIUS had acquired the four premises from Deutsche Annington in exceptional circumstances at the beginning of 2011 together with a further hotel property in Braunschweig. The location in Braunschweig had already been disposed of in 2012. AURELIUS s0ld the hotel property in the Glockenbachviertel district of Munich to Heisig & Heisig Projektentwicklungs GmbH in August 2015, while the largest premises, in Hanover, were sold to a private investor close to the hotel trade in November 2015. AURELIUS had announced in December that the two remaining premises in the Isarvorstadt and Nymphenburg districts of Munich were going to a real-estate multi-family office. Following extensive renovation work, the hotel operating company GHOTEL hotel & living has been able to secure long-term leases for its locations in Munich and Hanover. The restructuring and sale of the hotel property portfolio has thus been successfully completed, leading to a strong contribution to profits at AURELIUS in the high-double digit millions in the past fiscal year, 2015. The idea is to distribute half of the proceeds to AURELIUS shareholders in the form of a participation dividend. ABOUT AURELIUS AURELIUS has operated successfully in the international market for corporate acquisitions for many years and is one of Europe's leading private equity firms. Working from offices in Munich, London, Stockholm, and Madrid, AURELIUS acquires companies and corporate spin-offs with development potential throughout Europe. Once acquired, these portfolio companies are restructured on the basis of a long-term strategy and further developed under the roof of AURELIUS, benefitting from the management experience and financial strength of the parent company. Currently, the AURELIUS portfolio comprises 25 companies operating from locations in Europe, Asia, and the United States of America. They include many well-known and prestigious brands, as well as service providers and industrial enterprises. AURELIUS acquires companies on the basis of strict investment criteria, but is not bound by a particular sector focus. The share of AURELIUS SE & Co. KGaA is listed in the m:access Section of the Munich Stock Exchange and is traded on all German stock exchanges under ISIN DE000A0JK2A8. For additional information, please visit www.aureliusinvest.de. CONTACT Anke Banaschewski Investor Relations & Corporate Communications Phone +49 (89) 544799 - 0 Fax +49 (89) 544799 - 55 [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04.01.2016 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 426655 04.01.2016