Waste Today Corporate Growth Conference 2020

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Waste Today’s Corporate Growth Conference is a uniquely informative event designed for operators and investors across the environmental services industry. Operators in the waste management, specialty waste, recycling, and cleaning services business, as well as investment bankers, private equity firms, venture capitalists, family offices, banks, and other financial market participants, all benefit from attending.

The event provides a unique blend of insight into the business drivers within market segments as well as into the capital markets available to finance growth and business development.

BGL returns as a Platinum sponsor of this year’s virtual event, and BGL’s Head of Environmental & Industrial Services, Effram Kaplan, is moderating a panel presentation on Wednesday, October 14th from 12:25-1:20 p.m. entitled, “Market Dislocation: Where is the Market Post-Coronavirus?”

Discussion topics for this session, regarding the near- and long-term impacts of the novel coronavirus on the Environmental Services and Waste markets, will include Macro and Structural Changes in Environmental Services, Volumes, Competition, Business Models, and more.

BGL Advises EPS of Vermont

Environmental Products & Services acquired by Miller Environmental Group Inc.

Client Description

Headquartered in Syracuse, New York, EPS is a leading environmental and industrial services provider with 17 branches across the eastern United States and national coverage through its National Accounts model. EPS offers a comprehensive suite of essential and highly complementary services, including waste disposal, spill response, industrial maintenance, vacuum truck, tank cleaning, geological, high vacuum extraction, and other specialty services. These high-quality services have positioned EPS as a valued partner to a diverse group of premier retail, environmental, manufacturing, energy, transportation/logistics, construction, utilities/telecom, and other attractive end markets. The transaction allows MEG to extend its network of specialty environmental and industrial services to a national scale with exposure to a diverse customer base.

Waste Today Corporate Growth Conference

Waste Today’s Corporate Growth Conference is a uniquely informative event designed for operators and investors across the environmental services industry. Operators in the waste management, specialty waste, recycling and waste and cleaning services business, as well as investment bankers, private equity firms, venture capitalists, family offices, banks, and other financial market participants all benefit from attending.

The event provides a unique blend of insight into the business drivers within market segments as well as into the capital markets available to finance growth and business development.

BGL is a platinum sponsor of this event, and BGL’s Head of Environmental & Industrial Services, Effram Kaplan, is moderating a panel presentation from 9:15 – 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday, November 19th entitled, “Understanding Business Valuation.”

BGL Advises Strength Environmental, LLC

BGL advised Strength Environmental on its acquisition by Valicor Environmental Services.

Client Description

Headquartered in Inkster, Michigan, Strength Environmental is a leading specialty environmental services provider with differentiated non-hazardous waste treatment, disposal, and industrial service capabilities. Strength Environmental operates a premier centralized wastewater treatment (“CWT”) facility and provides reliable disposal solutions for a diverse array of waste streams for non-hazardous waste generators throughout the Midwest. Additionally, the Company is currently one of the few CWT’s in the Midwest, and the first facility operating in Southeast Michigan, permitted to treat and dispose of the PFAS and PFOA pool of chemical compounds. Strength Environmental’s differentiated disposal capabilities combined with its complementary specialty environmental and industrial service offerings has enabled it to become a valued strategic partner to a diversified base of environmental, automotive, industrial, utility, government, chemical, and healthcare customers throughout the region.

EI Digest

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The broader Environmental & Industrial Services sector continues to attract significant interest from the strategic marketplace and debt and equity investors. The M&A market remains hyper-active and the cost of equity and debt capital is highly competitive. These factors, among others, are driving a competitive market for high quality companies.

For nearly 15 years, BGL’s Environmental & Industrial Services Group has been committed to providing M&A and capital markets advisory services to the broader industrial services landscape. BGL’s team will be at the 2019 EI Digest Conference and welcomes the opportunity to meet with you to discuss the M&A and capital markets and their impact on your future growth plans.

Effram Kaplan, Head of Environmental & Industrial Services, is attending.

BGL Advises Chemtron Corporation

Client Description

Headquartered in Avon, Ohio, Chemtron is a leading hazardous and non-hazardous industrial waste disposal and specialty environmental solutions platform in the Midwest. Chemtron provides hazardous and non-hazardous waste generators with a diverse range of disposal solutions as well as a comprehensive suite of complementary industrial services. Operating from its six facilities across the region, including two RCRA Part B treatment, storage and disposal facilities, Chemtron treats, processes, and directs for end disposal a wide array of waste profiles, including more than 500 different RCRA waste codes and any type of non-RCRA waste. Chemtron’s differentiated disposal capabilities and distinguished ability to manage complex waste streams has enabled it to become a valued strategic partner to a wide range of environmental, manufacturing, chemical, transportation, utility, governmental, power generation, and healthcare customers throughout the region.

BGL Advises Pete & Pete Container Services, Inc.

Client Description

Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Garfield Heights, Ohio, Pete & Pete offers a comprehensive suite of solid waste management services, including roll-off and front-load container collection, hauling, and recycling services to the residential, commercial, and industrial markets. The highly synergistic combination of Pete & Pete, the largest independent C&D collection and hauling services provider in the region, and Boyas, creates the leading vertically integrated C&D dedicated platform serving Northeast Ohio.

BGL Advises Lewis Clark

Client Description

Headquartered in Harrisburg, Illinois, Lewis Clark is a leading solid waste management and recycling company providing non-hazardous solid waste collection and disposal services to the southern Illinois and Greater Omaha, Nebraska markets. Over the past two years, the company has completed several tuck-in acquisitions, resulting in an expanded geographic footprint; and has completed the construction of a new transfer station facility. Lewis Clark has five subsidiary companies which operate three landfills and two transfer stations.

Waste Expo 2019

Whether you are from the private sector, a small, medium or large public sector waste management company, organics management, or food waste management company, or a manufacturer or supplier from the U.S. or abroad, count on WasteExpo to bring the entire industry together under one roof.

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company is proud to support this event, with Effram Kaplan, Managing Director & EIS Group Head, attending from the firm’s Environmental and Industrial Services team; and Vince Pappalardo, Managing Director, attending from the firm’s Metals & Metals Processing team.