Ashurst advises Arcus Infrastructure Partners on agreement to acquire WCCTV Group Limited
08 January 2026
Global law firm Ashurst is advising Arcus Infrastructure Partners ("Arcus"), an independent fund manager focused solely on long-term investments in European infrastructure, on the acquisition of 100% of WCCTV Group Limited ("WCCTV" or the "Company") by Arcus European Infrastructure Fund 4 SCSp alongside the WCCTV management team.
WCCTV is a full-service, specialised leasing provider of managed re-deployable video surveillance (“RVS”) assets for temporary security and monitoring solutions in the UK and the US. The Company 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 in the UK and US, 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 serves a diversified, blue-chip customer base across infrastructure and utilities, government and law enforcement, large-scale commercial and industrial construction, retail, logistics, car parking and property management for a range of security and monitoring use cases.
WCCTV is one of the market leaders in the RVS solutions space, providing critical RVS asset leasing solutions which protect and monitor infrastructure and enterprise assets for a diversified range of resilient customer end markets.
The transaction is expected to complete in Q1 2026, subject to relevant regulatory clearances.
The Ashurst team was led by partners Aaron Shute and Christy O'Connell, supported by partner and Global Head of Corporate Jason Radford, and associates Florence Fry, Scott Vanderwolf, Hugh Morris, Lottie White and Tom Segev.
Partner Laura Ho and senior associate Kavisha Bilimoria advised on finance matters, partner Chris Bates, senior associate Emily McCracken and associates Julia Bell and Nick Hwong advised on commercial contract matters, partner Rhiannon Webster, senior associate Tom Brookes and associate Hana Byrne advised on data protection matters, and partner Chris Eberhardt, senior associate Laura Carter and associate Eleanor Popplewell advised in relation to regulatory matters. Partners Mark Spinney and Patricia Allen, senior associate Shayaan Zaraq Bari and associate Beth Sercombe provided tax advice, partners Ruth Buchanan and Dan Ornstein, counsel John Gordon and senior associate Natalie Flynn advised on employment and pensions matters, counsel Aaron Cole advised on IP matters, and partners Lee Foxcroft and Eleanor Reeves, and senior associate Joanna Fox advised on real estate and EHS matters. US law advice was provided by partner Wes Strickland, senior associates Annie Smart, Jagriti Singh, Nathan Huynh, and associate Nathan Chen.
