The Scottish Dental Care Group – a national dental provider, offering the full range of NHS and private treatments – has secured a multi-million pound minority investment from BGF. With a turnover of GBP11 million, Scottish Dental Care Group currently operates 15 clinics across the central belt, Dumfries and Galloway, the Highlands and Grampian. This includes the recently acquired Castle House clinic in Inverness, and the Grandholm and Granite City clinics in Aberdeen. BGF’s multi-million-pound investment will enable the growing dental group to implement ambitious growth plans in the coming years through the continued acquisition of high-quality clinics across Scotland.

An affiliate of global alternative investment firm HIG Capita has acquired an interest in Titan Storage Solutions (Titan). Titan is a self-storage operator and owner of five assets which provide a total of space 142,000 sq ft.   Riccardo Dallolio, Managing Director and Head of HIG Europe Realty in London, says: “We are delighted to complete this transaction in line with our strategy of investing in platforms with strong underlying secular trends. With platforms in the cold-storage, film-production and life-sciences sectors, we are focused on building best-in-class businesses which can achieve critical mass.”

Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and SME investment manager, has completed a significant investment in Connect Fibre, a community minded, full fibre network provider based in Cambridgeshire. This will accelerate the installation of a full fibre network across the East of England, bringing superior digital connectivity to households and businesses across the region.   Foresight has an established track record across sustainable infrastructure, real assets and SME investing, delivering financial returns while making a positive contribution to the regions in which it operates.  With a regional office and investment team located in the heart of Cambridge, since 2019, Foresight

Novus Capital Corporation II has completed its business combination with Energy Vault (Energy Vault), a company developing sustainable, grid-scale energy storage solutions. In connection with the completion of the business combination, Novus has been renamed Energy Vault Holdings, Inc (the “Company”) and its common stock and warrants are expected to commence trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, 14 February, 2022 under the ticker symbols “NRGV” and “NRGV WS” respectively.

Generational Equity, a mergers and acquisitions advisor for privately held businesses, has advised Prime Cable KC on its sale to private investor, Todd McCullough. Prime Label KC (PLKC) was founded in 1993 to provide custom pressure sensitive labels and sheets to customers throughout the United States. Through increasing production capabilities and offerings, the Company has been able to establish itself as a local leader in the industry. Generational Equity Executive Managing Director of M&A – Central Region, Michael Goss, and his team led by Senior M&A Advisor, Lorry Nelson, with support from Vice President, M&A Madison Buckley, successfully closed the

Runway Growth Capital, a provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, has closed a senior secured term loan commitment of USD75 million to VertexOne, a specialist in SaaS platforms for critical business processes of utilities across North America. VertexOne is an example of a private equity-backed company utilising venture debt to help achieve its growth goals. Runway is being increasingly called upon by private equity firms to structure flexible debt solutions that enable their portfolio companies to develop their businesses.

Argonaut Private Equity has held the first closing of Argonaut Private Equity Fund V, which is targeting USD400 million in commitments, and made the fund’s first investment with the acquisition of Miller Contracting, a family-founded company providing specialty mining, industrial, and civil contracting services across the United States from its headquarters in southern Illinois. Fund V will continue Argonaut’s disciplined investing in founder-led manufacturing and industrial businesses in Middle America where shared values brings strong relationships. The Miller family will continue its leadership in the company post-acquisition.

The Private Equity fund of Gilde Healthcare, a specialist healthcare investor, has acquired EUROPIN, a leading international developer and manufacturer of customised pen cannulas and lancet needles for diabetic use.

Funds advised by Apax Partners are to acquire a controlling stake in Alcumus, a specialist in technology-led risk management and compliance solutions, from Inflexion.