2015 Environmental Industry Summit

The Environmental Industry Summit is a national three-day learning event bringing together professionals from the environmental industry. With an ideal setting, ample networking opportunities and presentations and panel discussions from environmental industry executives and analysts, the Environmental Industry Summit offers a unique opportunity to gain valuable perspective on today’s environmental industry.

Managing Director and Head of the Environmental and Energy Services Group Effram Kaplan will attend and welcomes the opportunity to meet with you.

Effram E. Kaplan

Kaplan Effram WEBSITE

Effram E. Kaplan is Co-Chief Executive Officer at Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL). Additionally, he is a Senior Managing Director and Head of BGL’s  Infrastructure and Services verticals, leading the firm’s investment banking activities in Environmental Services, Environmental Infrastructure, and Energy Transition.

Effram’s advisory experience spans all facets of guiding an organization’s strategic and capital market needs, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity capital, and shareholder and board advisory, among others. His investment banking career has focused heavily on Environmental & Industrial Services; as a result, he has strong relationships throughout the industry and a well-established understanding of the particular strengths and challenges facing many of its sub-sectors. His clients primarily include private and public companies as well as debt and equity sponsors.

Prior to joining BGL, Effram was a member of the investment banking team at KeyBanc Capital Markets and held management consulting positions at Arthur Andersen and Cap Gemini.

Education
  • B.S., Miami University
  • MBA, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Affiliations
  • Member, Association for Corporate Growth (ACG)
  • Member, NORA, An Association of Responsible Recyclers
  • Member, National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA)
Certifications
  • Series 7, 24, and 79 Licensed

SiEnergy Acquired by NW Natural

SiEnergy acquired by NW Natural

Description

SiEnergy is one of the fastest growing natural gas distribution utilities in the nation. The Company serves approximately 70,000 residential and commercial customers in the greater metropolitan areas of Houston, Dallas, and Austin (known as the Texas Triangle). SiEnergy has grown organically by providing infrastructure to residential and commercial developments in high-growth areas and has a current contracted customer backlog of over 180,000. SiEnergy’s regulated business model generates stable earnings and is well positioned for future investment opportunities as communities and new developments in the Texas Triangle continue to expand.

BGL Announces the Sale of Future Environmental to GFL Environmental

Future Environmental acquired by GFL Environmental

November 19, 2018 – Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is pleased to announce the sale of Future Environmental, Inc. (Future Environmental) to GFL Environmental Inc. (GFL). BGL’s Environmental & Industrial Services team served as the financial advisor to Future Environmental in the transaction. The specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Based in Mokena, Illinois, Future Environmental is a leading provider of environmental services to the petroleum, pipeline, utility, and chemical markets in its region. Future Environmental is one of the largest used oil collection companies in the Midwest and offers a fully integrated suite of collection and recycling solutions for its broad customer base. Its Industrial Services Division provides scheduled maintenance and emergency response environmental services for a diverse group of pipeline, utility, and chemical companies. The company operates from 14 sites across the Midwest, enabling it to deploy equipment and people to job sites rapidly, thereby maximizing customer uptime.

BGL Advises Future Environmental, Inc.

Client Description

Based in Mokena, Illinois, Future Environmental is a leading provider of environmental services to the petroleum, pipeline, utility, and chemical markets in its region. Future Environmental is one of the largest used oil collection companies in the Midwest and offers a fully integrated suite of collection and recycling solutions for its broad customer base. Its Industrial Services Division provides scheduled maintenance and emergency response environmental services for a diverse group of pipeline, utility, and chemical companies. The company operates from 14 sites across the Midwest, enabling it to deploy equipment and people to job sites rapidly, thereby maximizing customer uptime.

BGL Announces the Sale of Ecoserv Industrial Disposal to U.S. Ecology

Ecoserv Industrial Disposal, a portfolio company of Lariat Partners, acquired by US ecology.

Chicago/Cleveland – November 15, 2018 – Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is pleased to announce the sale of Ecoserv Industrial Disposal, LLC (IDF), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ecoserv, LLC (Ecoserv), to US Ecology, Inc. (NASDAQ-GS: ECOL) (US Ecology). Ecoserv is majority owned by Lariat Partners, a Denver, Colorado-based private investment firm. BGL’s Environmental & Industrial Services team served as the exclusive financial advisor to Ecoserv in the transaction.

Located in Winnie, Texas, the IDF is a leading non-hazardous industrial wastewater (NIW) disposal solutions provider in the Gulf Coast region, offering economically efficient and environmentally safe disposal of a wide array of industrial waste streams. Utilizing deep-well injection technology, IDF operates several of the only commercial caprock injection wells fully permitted for difficult to treat Class 1 and 2 NIW streams, including solids, sludges, high metals, flammable exempt, leachate, and ammonia. Strategically located near key markets such as Houston and Beaumont, Texas and Lake Charles, Louisiana, IDF provides reliable disposal services to petrochemical, refinery, chemical, industrial, and environmental services customers.

BGL Advises Ecoserv Industrial Disposal, LLC

Ecoserv Industrial Disposal, a portfolio company of Lariat Partners, acquired by US ecology.

Client Description

Located in Winnie, Texas, the IDF is a leading non-hazardous industrial wastewater (NIW) disposal solutions provider in the Gulf Coast region, offering economically efficient and environmentally safe disposal of a wide array of industrial waste streams. Utilizing deep-well injection technology, IDF operates several of the only commercial caprock injection wells fully permitted for difficult to treat Class 1 and 2 NIW streams, including solids, sludges, high metals, flammable exempt, leachate, and ammonia. Strategically located near key markets such as Houston and Beaumont, Texas and Lake Charles, Louisiana, IDF provides reliable disposal services to petrochemical, refinery, chemical, industrial, and environmental services customers.

BGL Advises Moskowitz Brothers, Inc.

Client Description

Founded in 1901 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Moskowitz Brothers is a full-service, non-ferrous scrap metals processor with a leading market position in the Midwest. The company specializes in recycling a broad range of non-ferrous materials such as brass, copper, aluminum, stainless steel, and nickel, in addition to offering a comprehensive suite of services to its industrial customers that includes roll off and dumpster service, dismantling, scrap handling programs, and secondary machinery and equipment sales. Moskowitz Brothers services a diverse base of foundries, container handlers, scrap yards, and metal manufacturers located throughout the Midwest and South.

SearchLight and BCi Acquired Consolidated Communications

SearchLight and BCi Acquired Consolidated Communications

Description

Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNSL) is dedicated to moving people, businesses and communities forward by delivering the most reliable fiber communications solutions. Consumers, businesses and wireless and wireline carriers depend on Consolidated for a wide range of high-speed internet, data, phone, security, cloud and wholesale carrier solutions. With a network spanning nearly 59,000 fiber route miles, Consolidated is a top 10 U.S. fiber provider, turning technology into solutions that are backed by exceptional customer support.

CN Rail Entered into a Marketing and Management Agreement With SBA

CN Rail Entered into a Marketing and Management Agreement With SBA

Description

CN powers the economy by safely transporting more than 300 million tons of natural resources, manufactured products, and finished goods throughout North America every year for its customers. With its nearly 20,000-mile rail network and related transportation services, CN connects Canada’s Eastern and Western coasts with the U.S. Midwest and the U.S. Gulf Coast, contributing to sustainable trade and the prosperity of the communities in which it operates since 1919.