BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital
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About BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital
Bregal Unternehmerkapital is the largest mid-cap private equity investor headquartered in the DACH region with more than €7.0 billion of capital raised to date as of December 2024, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland with offices in Munich, Amsterdam, Milan and London. The firm was founded in 2015 as the DACH mid-cap arm of Bregal Investments, the private equity platform of the COFRA Group (Brenninkmeijer family), and operates with a partner-led investment team. Fund IV closed in May 2024 at a €2.65 billion hard cap.
Investment thesis
Bregal Unternehmerkapital deploys capital through approximately four funds, targeting majority and minority shareholdings, growth financing, succession, carve-outs and management transactions in founder- and family-led Mittelstand hidden champions with equity tickets of €75-300 million. Sector focus spans software, industrial technology, business services and healthcare and life sciences and healthtech. Geographic deployment is the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) plus northern Italy and neighbouring economies. The platform converts founders into advisory-board members and management teams into co-owners.
Recent activity
Recent realised exits include legal tech software (2025-2026) and risk-management and decision software (2025). Recent acquisitions include IT consulting and outsourcing (2026) plus a legal tech software platform. The platform continues active deployment of Fund IV across the DACH Mittelstand mandate. Detailed buyer names and multiple data available on Pro at €49/month.
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