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Oakley Capital

Oakley Capital acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from London, United Kingdom. It states a focus on software & internet, business & professional services, consumer & retail and education.

Capital raised$729macross 26 SEC-filed vehicles
Most recent fund2025filing since 2015
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
Largest single fund$729m

Stated investment criteria

What Oakley Capital says it buys

Read from Oakley Capital’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.

Enterprise value it states€100m to €1bn1
Transaction typesAdd-on2
OfficesLuxembourg, Munich, Milan, Madrid2

A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. Oakley Capital states that it takes majority or outright ownership. Nothing here is a commitment by Oakley Capital to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.

SEC filings

What Oakley Capital has raised

From this firm's own Form D filings. A fund files one within fifteen days of its first sale, under penalty of perjury, which makes these the hardest numbers on the page.

Vehicles filed26
Total capital raised$729m
Largest single vehicle$729m
Filing history2015 to 2025
Smallest accepted commitmentNone stated
Filed fromBERMUDA

Form D covers US-domiciled vehicles raised from accredited investors. It will not capture a fund raised outside the United States, separately managed accounts, or capital deployed off balance sheet, so treat these as a floor rather than a total.

Regulatory record

How Oakley Capital is registered

Registered with the SEC as an investment adviser, and incorporated in the United Kingdom.

Adviser statusExempt reporting adviser
Regulatory assets under managementNot reported by an ERA
Private funds advised9 · $17bn gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 288337
Companies House number04091922
Incorporated2000-10-12
Register statusActive
Officers on the register3

An exempt reporting adviser is not required to report regulatory assets under management, so the blank above means the question was not asked rather than that the answer is unknown. Where a figure exists it is the gross asset value of the private funds the firm advises, which is a different and usually larger measure.

Portfolio

Disclosed holdings

Companies Oakley Capital lists on its own website. No investment years are published.

CompanyInvestedYears heldRecorded transaction
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Compiled from Oakley Capital’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.

Recorded transactions

Buying and selling

Deals in which Oakley Capital is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 3 recorded exits, most recently in 2018. 3 recorded acquisitions.

CompanySideCounterpartyYearConsideration
Damovo Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG.SoldGlobal Growth Holdings2018$158m
SchuelerhilfeBoughtDeutsche Beteiligungs2017$47m
TechInsightsBoughtAXIO Data Group Holdings2017$50m
Verivox GmbHSoldProSiebenSat.1 Media2015$192m
EliteMedianetBoughtHolidayCheck Group2015$25m
Intergenia AGSoldHost Europe2014$237m

Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.

Valuation context

Transaction values in Software & Internet

What companies have actually sold for in software & internet, across 2,672 recorded transactions.

Median consideration$80m
Middle 50%$20m-$250m
Revenue multiple2.2×
EBITDA multiple10.9×

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