Michael Marino

Aurora Capital Group is a Los Angeles-based private investment firm managing $2.2 billion of capital across several private equity funds. Aurora's traditional private equity vehicles focus principally on control-investments in middle-market businesses with leading market positions, strong cash flow profiles, and actionable opportunities for growth in partnership with operating management. Aurora's Resurgence fund invests in debt and equity securities of middle-market companies and targets complex opportunities that are created by operational or financial challenges. Aurora was founded in 1991 and currently invests out of its fifth private equity fund. The firm targets businesses with between $100 million and $1 billion of revenue, a minimum investment size of $25 million in each situation, and the ability to invest several hundred million dollars per transaction. Aurora is currently invested in companies with combined total revenues of over $1.5 billion.