Private equity firm Sentinel Capital Partners has recapitalised Sonny's Enterprises, a provider of conveyorised car wash systems. Terms of the deal were have been disclosed.   Established in 1949, Sonny's is the largest global manufacturer of conveyorised car wash systems. Sonny's designs and manufactures car wash systems in its 135,000 sq

Growth Street, an alternative banking service provider for SMEs, is now listed as an appointed representative (AR) on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Financial Services Register. Formerly a peer to peer (P2P) platform purely for incorporated businesses to lend and borrow from each other, this new status allows Growth Street

The Coaching Inn Group has secured a further GBP10 million investment from BGF (Business Growth Fund) to support a planned GBP50 million expansion across the UK.  The Boston, Lincolnshire headquartered business currently operates 12 coaching inns and will use the capital to increase the size of its portfolio to 25

OrthoSpace, a specialist in shoulder implants, has closed on a USD7 million equity financing round.  The funds will be used to support the ongoing US Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) FDA Study, build out the company's commercial activities in Europe, South America and Asia, and provide working capital.    Existing investors

Amundi Private Equity Funds (PEF) has launched the first investment programme in non-listed European SMEs/mid-sized businesses benefiting from at least one of the five “megatrends”: technology, demographics, globalisation, the environment and societal changes. The programme targets French and European investors seeking diversification and reaching out for yield in an environment

Northleaf Capital Partners is to acquire a 33.3 per cent equity interest in Northwest Parkway, a toll-road located in the Denver metropolitan area of Colorado. Northleaf is part of a consortium alongside DIF Infrastructure IV and HICL Infrastructure Company which has conditionally acquired a 100 per cent equity interest in

Italian corporate and financial law firm Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners has advised Francesco Trapani on the acquisition of a 9 per cent equity stake in Tages Holding by means of a dedicated capital increase, to be approved by Bank of Italy. Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners team was composed

Alpine Investors V SBIC, together with several co-investors, has invested in Light Wave Dental Management, a dental support organisation providing management services for top-tier dental practices in the eastern US. The deal officially closed with the affiliation of six premier dental practices in Virginia.   Light Wave is creating a

Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PIP), an infrastructure investment manager established by pension schemes for pension schemes, has made the first equity investment from its PiP Multi-Strategy Infrastructure Fund (MSIF). The PiP MSIF has acquired a portfolio of 31 individual wind turbines from Golden Square Energy, a renewables business and joint venture

VSS, a private investment firm focused on the information, education, healthcare IT and tech-enabled business services sectors, has completed an investment in Coretelligent, a provider of private cloud and IT managed services and support to small and mid-sized businesses. Founded in 2006 by Kevin J Routhier, Coretelligent is a provider