Environmental Infrastructure Investment Banking

BGL’s Environmental Infrastructure investment banking team has been ranked #1 in Environmental Services transaction volume in North America since 2016.*

Our EI team focuses on businesses that perform essential services to the waste processing & disposal, water & wastewater treatment, waste-to-value, and waste-to-energy markets. Our industry-focused bankers offer highly specialized expertise and longstanding relationships that serve to maximize the opportunities available to our clients.

*Source: PitchBook.com, November 2026

Areas of Expertise

Waste Processing & Disposal

  • Transfer station & MRFs
  • TSDFs
  • Landfill
  • Soil treatment
  • Hazardous and non-hazardous treatment & processing
  • Oilfield waste treatment & disposal
  • Solidification

 

Featured Transaction: BGL Announces the Sale of Circon to Covanta

 

Circon is an industry leader in innovative waste management solutions and a portfolio company of Kinderhook Industries, LLC. BGL’s Infrastructure and Environment investment banking team served as lead financial advisor to Circon in the transaction.  Learn more about this environmental infrastructure M&A transaction.

Water & Wastewater Treatment

  • Centralized wastewater treatment
  • Onsite water & wastewater treatment
  • Deepwell
  • Specialty liquid waste management

 

Featured Transaction:  BGL Announces the Sale of Texas Molecular to VLS Environmental Solutions

 

Texas Molecular Holdings specializes in the handling, treatment, and sequestration of various liquid hazardous and non-hazardous industrial wastes. BGL’s Infrastructure and Environment investment banking team served as the exclusive financial advisor to Texas Molecular in the transaction. Learn more about this wastewater treatment M&A transaction.

Waste-to-Value

  • Alternative fuels
  • Animal feedstock additives
  • Mulch & aggregates
  • Organics
  • Recovery & reuse

 

Featured Transaction: BGL Advises Altamont Capital Partners on its Acquisition of 101 Inc.

 

101’s service offerings involve the repurposing of food residuals from manufacturers and retailers into nutritious livestock feed, compost, and green energy products. BGL’s Infrastructure and Environment investment banking team served as the exclusive financial advisor to Altamont Capital Partners on the transaction. Learn more about this environmental infrastructure M&A transaction.

Waste-to-Energy

  • Anaerobic digestion
  • Gasification
  • Pyrolysis
  • Landfill gas recovery
  • Incineration

 

Featured Transaction: BGL Advises Bluesphere

 

BGL’s Infrastructure and Environment investment banking team completed a debt and tax credit placement for Bluesphere, a company operating in the waste-to-energy space.

Contact our Environmental Infrastructure Investment Banking Team

Led by Effram E. Kaplan and James M. Cocita, BGL’s Environmental Infrastructure team maintains strong relationships with strategic and financial buyers around the globe. Please reach out via our contact form to learn more.

Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking

The Digital Infrastructure sector is undergoing significant transformation, creating both significant opportunities and complex challenges for owners, operators, investors, and capital providers. BGL’s Digital Infrastructure investment banking team brings valuable industry and transaction expertise to our clients whose businesses make up critical digital infrastructure domestically and internationally.

With a broad network of contacts and track record of successful transactions in digital infrastructure, our investment bankers facilitate senior level access to potential investors, strategic partners, and acquisition targets. Our team combines deep industry knowledge, extensive transaction experience, and long-standing relationships to help clients across the digital infrastructure landscape, including data centers, fiber and connectivity, wireless infrastructure, towers, edge infrastructure, and other mission-critical digital assets.

Areas of Expertise

Broadband

  • Fiber Infrastructure
  • Cable Networks
  • Cooperatives & Rural Broadband
  • Fixed Wireless

 

Data Centers & Managed Services

  • Hyperscalers
  • Colocation & Enterprise
  • Hosting & Cloud Services

 

 

Towers & Wireless Infrastructure

  • Wireless Carriers
  • Macro Towers
  • Small Cells & Distributed Antenna Systems
  • In-Building Wireless

 

 

Digital Infrastructure Services

  • Construction & Engineering
  • Network Integration

Emerging Infrastructure

  • Edge Computing
  • Distributed Infrastructure
  • Other Technologies

Contact our Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking Team

Led by Lauren Clark, BGL’s Digital Infrastructure team understands the challenges in the sector and helps clients to make the most of opportunities in the current marketplace. Please reach out via our contact form to learn more.

Infrastructure Investment Banking

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BGL’s Infrastructure investment banking professionals have extensive M&A and capital markets experience, with deep knowledge in Digital Infrastructure, Energy Transition, Environmental Infrastructure, and Transportation & Logistics Infrastructure.

BGL’s Infrastructure team is deeply connected across the industries we serve, maintaining strong relationships with strategic and financial buyers around the globe.

Areas of Expertise

Our digital infrastructure investment banking team assists companies and sponsors in the broadband, wireless, data center and wireless infrastructure sectors on strategic M&A and capital solutions.

In the rapidly-growing energy transition industry, our investment bankers leverage a deep network of industry connections to enhance deal-making opportunities.

BGL’s Environmental Infrastructure investment banking team has been ranked #1 in Environmental Services transaction volume in North America since 2016, according to PitchBook.com.

Our team specializes in advising on mergers and acquisitions in the logistics and transportation industries, private debt and capital raises, and financial restructuring.

In-Depth Infrastructure Services Research

Our Infrastructure investment banking professionals provide in-depth industry research that can help you navigate the latest industry trends. View our latest Infrastructure research here.

Contact Our Infrastructure Investment Banking Team

Led by Effram E. Kaplan, BGL’s Infrastructure investment banking team maintains strong relationships with strategic and financial buyers around the globe. Reach out via our contact form to learn more about how we can help with M&A or capital markets strategies that best position you to achieve your strategic objectives.

BGL Growth Conference 2023

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This one-day event brings entrepreneurs, industry executives, and private equity groups together to facilitate value-added interaction and build connections for the future.

COMPANY PRESENTATIONS
Hear dozens of high-quality middle market companies present overviews and growth strategies for their businesses

1X1 MEETINGS
Engage in a full day of targeted meetings, facilitated by BGL for presenters and prospective investors

NETWORKING RECEPTIONS
Take advantage of several opportunities to meet and engage with other industry participants before and during the event

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Opening Session:
Charles Evans, economic & financial expert and former president & CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, will share his insights during “A Conversation with Charles Evans on the Economy”

Keynote Speaker: 
General Stan McChrystal, retired four-star general, former Head of U.S. and
International Forces in Afghanistan, and former leader of the Joint Special Operations Command, will deliver a keynote on “The Changing Geopolitical Landscape”

 

BGL Advises GFL Environmental – Pennsylvania, Maryland & Delaware Solid Waste Operations

GLF Casella 2023

Client Description

Headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario, GFL Environmental, Inc. (GFL) is a leading North American diversified environmental services company providing a comprehensive line of solid waste management, liquid waste management, and soil remediation services through its platform of facilities throughout Canada and more than half of the United States. Across its organization, GFL has a workforce of more than 20,000 employees.

BGL Advises GFL Environmental – Nashville, TN Solid Waste Operations

GLF Waste Management 2023

Client Description

Headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario, GFL Environmental, Inc. (GFL) is a leading North American diversified environmental services company providing a comprehensive line of solid waste management, liquid waste management, and soil remediation services through its platform of facilities throughout Canada and more than half of the United States. Across its organization, GFL has a workforce of more than 20,000 employees.

BGL Advises GFL Environmental – Colorado & New Mexico Solid Waste Operations

GLF Republic Services 2023

Client Description

Headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario, GFL Environmental, Inc. (GFL) is a leading North American diversified environmental services company providing a comprehensive line of solid waste management, liquid waste management, and soil remediation services through its platform of facilities throughout Canada and more than half of the United States. Across its organization, GFL has a workforce of more than 20,000 employees.

BGL Advises Coastal Waste & Recycling

Coastal 2023

Client Description

Based in Boca Raton, FL, Coastal serves more than 450,000 customers in Florida and Georgia, making it one of the largest waste management firms in southeastern U.S. The company employs more than 800 people and operates more than 425 collection and support vehicles. The company’s operations include 18 facilities in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, which include two transfer stations, 11 maintenance and hauling facilities, and five material recovery facilities.

BGL Advises Attaway Hauling and Choice Bulk Carriers

Attaway Hauling 2023 NEW

Client Description

Headquartered in Gordon, Georgia, Attaway Hauling is a provider of outsourced transfer station management and long-haul waste transportation services for more than 50 transfer stations across Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. Attaway Hauling’s primary service offering includes processing, transportation, and disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW), construction and demolition debris (C&D), wastewater, and sludge. Choice Bulk Carriers supplements Attaway Hauling’s core business by providing long-distance dry and liquid bulk hauling of basic materials, minerals, and chemicals. Combined, the companies have approximately 200 trucks and 200 employees, including more than 150 employee drivers.

BGL Announces the Sale of Attaway Hauling and Choice Bulk Carriers to Bulk Express Transport

Attaway Hauling 2023 NEW

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is pleased to announce the sale of Attaway Hauling and Choice Bulk Carriers to Bulk Express Transport. BGL’s Environmental & Industrial Services and Transportation & Logistics investment banking teams served as the exclusive financial advisor to Attaway Hauling in the transaction. The specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Headquartered in Gordon, Georgia, Attaway Hauling is a provider of outsourced transfer station management and long-haul waste transportation services for more than 50 transfer stations across Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. Attaway Hauling’s primary service offering includes processing, transportation, and disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW), construction and demolition debris (C&D), wastewater, and sludge. Choice Bulk Carriers supplements Attaway Hauling’s core business by providing long-distance dry and liquid bulk hauling of basic materials, minerals, and chemicals. Combined, the companies have approximately 200 trucks and 200 employees, including more than 150 employee drivers.

Founded in 1992, Bulk Express Transport is a leading transportation and logistics company providing long-haul transportation, collection, and loading for waste and other materials across the state of Florida. The company’s core service offerings include long-haul transportation services for MSW, recyclables, aggregates, C&D debris, contaminated soils, ash, sludge, and other specialty materials, as well as waste transfer station management, loading and unloading, and on-site landfill service.

The addition of Attaway Hauling’s services expands Bulk Express Transport’s footprint to multiple high-growth markets throughout the Southeastern United States.

BGL’s Environmental & Industrial Services investment banking team has been a leader in the North American market in Environmental Services transaction volume for more than eight years, according to PitchBook.com. The EIS team focuses on businesses that perform essential services to the commercial, industrial, infrastructure, power and energy, and municipal markets. Our Transportation & Logistics investment bankers have executed numerous transactions in maritime and offshore, trucking and logistics, transportation infrastructure, supply chain, and passenger transport.