Houlihan Lokey Advises Arcus Infrastructure Partners

Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that Arcus Infrastructure Partners’ (Arcus) Arcus European Infrastructure Fund 4 SCSp (AEIF4) has agreed to acquire WCCTV Group Ltd. (WCCTV) alongside the WCCTV management team. The acquisition will mark the first investment for AEIF4, which reached its €3 billion hard cap in December 2025, following a seven-month fundraising period. The transaction also marks an exit for U.K. private equity investor LDC following a successful five-year partnership. The transaction is expected to be completed in Q1 2026, subject to obtaining relevant regulatory clearances.

Arcus is an independent fund manager focused solely on long-term investments in European infrastructure. Arcus invests on behalf of institutional investors through discretionary funds and currently manages €12.5 billion in assets (as of 5 December 2025). Arcus targets middle-market, value-add infrastructure investments, with a particular focus on businesses in the digital, transport, logistics and industrials, and energy sectors.

WCCTV is a full-service, specialised leasing provider of managed re-deployable video surveillance (RVS) assets for temporary security and monitoring solutions in the U.K. and the U.S. Established in 2001 and headquartered in Rochdale, England, WCCTV offers an end-to-end specialist offering, comprising the leasing of fuel cell and solar-powered CCTV towers and trailers, along with a wrapper of value-added services such as advisory on-site configuration, tech-enabled surveillance and monitoring connected to outsourced alarm receiving centres, ongoing asset maintenance, fuel provision, and, increasingly, data capture to support customer operations.

WCCTV operates from a strategically located network of 10 depot hubs, owning and leasing a well-invested fleet comprising c. 1,655 RVS towers and c. 1,520 RVS trailers with a technical asset life for both RVS asset pools of c. 15–20 years. The company is a market leader in the RVS solutions space, providing critical RVS asset leasing solutions that protect and monitor infrastructure and enterprise assets for a diversified range of resilient customer end markets. WCCTV is well-positioned to support its customers through an ongoing multi-decade infrastructure and utilities asset renewal cycle, as well as steady growth in broader industrial, commercial, and government end-market activities. The company continues to evolve its asset fleet and service proposition to ensure industry-leading operational standards and capabilities, as RVS assets become the go-to solution to address a wide range of security and monitoring requirements.

Jordan Cott, Partner and Head of Logistics & Industrials at Arcus, commented: “WCCTV stood out as an ideal platform in the RVS solutions landscape given its unique combination of time-tested market leadership in the U.K. together with its strong foothold in the fast-growing U.S. market. This is a perfect stage for Arcus to enter this market and support the business, as we will apply our significant experience investing in industrial asset leasing companies to optimise and accelerate WCCTV’s ambitious growth plan. We are delighted for this to mark our first investment for AEIF4 and look forward to partnering with David and the broader WCCTV management team through the next chapter.”

David Gilbertson, CEO of WCCTV, commented: “I am delighted to have a leading infrastructure investor like Arcus on board for the next phase of growth at WCCTV. Arcus recognises the strength of WCCTV, our people, our customer relationships, and the market-leading systems we have built over the past two decades. We have full alignment with Arcus on our long-term strategy and ambition, and we strongly believe that this partnership will give us the ideal platform to scale the business further, invest in our assets, technology, and service offering, and ultimately accelerate growth across the U.K. and the U.S.”

Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive M&A and financing advisor to Arcus.

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