Our acquisition approach fosters growth and enhances our capabilities to deliver sustainable solutions. We believe that strategic partnerships and acquisitions are vital to advancing our mission of positively impacting the environment and society.
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We are keen to hear from like-minded organizations that align with our vision to help us expand our service offerings and deepen our commitment to innovation and sustainability.
With decades of experience acquiring and integrating organizations, you can join us and help shape a sustainable future with the world’s leading organizations and the planet.
ERM acquired the Environmental Division of Newfields to expand its existing technical and strategic offerings in remediation and environmental services across North America. They brought a wealth of experience in areas such as environmental forensics and emerging contaminants, human health impact and risk assessment, data analytics, sediment management, marine sciences, hydrogeology, and groundwater modeling.
Learn more: Remediation & Regeneration
Energetics is a leading climate risk and energy transition consulting firm partnering with Australia's largest businesses, investors, and governments to help them respond to some of the most significant issues of our time: the impacts of our destabilizing climate, our economy’s transformation to achieve net zero emissions and the realization of Australia’s huge clean energy potential.
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The Big Middle and The Big Zero, Australian consultancies, adopted the ERM brand, enhancing systems integration capabilities. The Big Zero specializes in Salesforce Net Zero Cloud, aiding Net Zero and ESG goals. At the same time, The Big Middle excels in WalkMe, Salesforce, and Oracle integration, offering expert consulting and support.
Links: Data & Digital, Climate & Net Zero, Partnerships
NINT was a consultancy in Latin America focused on sustainable finance and ESG advisory for financial institutions, corporations, civil society and public sector organizations. NINT advised clients to advance the integration of sustainability & ESG criteria into decision-making processes related to investments, capital market transactions, risk management, and strategy development.
For more info, please visit the ERM NINT website NINT | Natural Intelligence.
Coho is a global climate adviser dedicated to helping clients navigate complexity and take ambitious steps on their climate journey. They provide deep market insight, analytical problem-solving, and change management expertise so that clients can pursue climate and water goals with confidence and internal alignment. They have served over 60 companies and helped them contract for approximately 7 million MWhs of renewable energy annually, enough to power over 650,000 homes and drive $5+ billion of new investment in renewable energy projects. Coho has 50+ team members, and is based near Washington DC
For more information, please visit their website Climate Advisors | Coho.
ERM Libryo is an automated, cloud-based platform that helps organisations know the law that applies to their business, in every jurisdiction. Law is poorly organized, changes regularly, it’s not searchable and is written in complicated phrases. ERM Libryo makes it easier to know the law by filtering, configuring and tracking unique site-specific legal registers, enabling people to quickly navigate regulatory complexity with clarity and certainty. Founded in 2016 with headquarters in London, ERM Libryo operates all over the world helping over 15,000 users across 140+ organizations.
For more information, please visit Libryo. Or the website Regulatory Compliance Management Software | Libryo.
Shelton Group is a leading marketing communications agency based in the United States focused exclusively on sustainability. Its team of insights, marketing, communications, creative, and digital professionals work to create and deliver sustainability stories, campaigns, and communications strategies that enhance reputation, build trust, and ensure differentiation.
Marinespace was a leading marine environment consultancy advising clients on their most significant and complex marine development projects. Its team of highly experienced marine scientists and development consultants applied their extensive knowledge of the marine environment to help clients develop responsibly, efficiently, and successfully.
Links: Click here to learn more or click here to email.
Point Advisory was a leading Australian climate change and sustainability consultancy. It provided strategic and technical advice for sustainability strategy and finance, responsible investment, climate change, net-zero initiatives, sustainable energy, nature conservation, human rights, and responsible sourcing.
Links: Social Impact & Human Rights, Climate & Net Zero, ESG & Sustainable Finance
OPEX was a specialist software company that delivered AI and data science solutions to help carbon-intensive industries reduce emissions. This acquisition further enhanced ERM’s growing digital business and expanded its data analytics and AI capabilities.
Stratos was one of Canada’s leading sustainability and ESG advisory firms. This acquisition brings deep expertise in ESG performance and risk management, stakeholder engagement, science and innovation, conservation, and regulatory excellence. Additionally, it is committed to advancing Indigenous reconciliation through specific and meaningful partnerships.
RCG was a global market intelligence, management consulting, and technical advisory firm operating exclusively in the renewable energy sector, strengthening the ERM’s ability to advise clients on purchasing and selling renewable energy assets and adding deep sector experience in offshore wind projects.
Element Energy was a specialist energy consultancy that worked with organizations to implement integrated low-carbon technology solutions with deep expertise in the development, commercialization, and implementation of emerging low-carbon technologies, such as hydrogen and fuel cells, electrification, energy storage and carbon capture use and storage (CCUS).
Learn more here or view the E4Tech/Element Energy publication archive here.
E4tech, an energy and sustainability strategy consultancy, specializes in innovative and disruptive low-carbon technologies—this enhanced ERM’s ability to advise clients seeking to transition towards a lower-carbon future.
Learn more here or view the E4Tech/Element Energy publication archive here.
Sustainalize, a Dutch sustainability consulting firm in the Netherlands and Belgium, has significantly enhanced ERM’s sustainability consulting capabilities across continental Europe, further solidifying the company’s position as the global leader in pure-play sustainability consulting.
Link: ERM's Solutions
First Option is a UK-based health and safety business serving the media and entertainment sector. As the appetite for more sustainable operations in the media and entertainment sector continues to grow, this acquisition presented a significant opportunity for ERM to broaden its support for clients navigating this new environment.
To find out more about First Option, please visit their website.
Engineering Safety Consultants (ESC) was a UK-based global functional safety management and engineering consultancy. The acquisition of ESC significantly enhanced ERM's capabilities and capacity regarding technical and process safety services.
Arcus was a leading renewable energy consultancy focused on environmental, planning, and engineering support. The acquisition further strengthened ERM’s position as a sustainability leader in supporting our clients in addressing the Low Carbon Economy Transition (LCET).
M.J. Bradley & Associates (MJB&A) was a specialist energy, climate change, and sustainability advisory company that provided strategic policy and regulatory advice on the low carbon economy transition to the electricity and natural gas sectors and focused on advanced transportation initiatives in North America.
Critical Resource provided C-suite strategic advice on sustainability, energy transition, and license-to-operate challenges across the mining and energy sectors. This advice was necessitated by the increasing sustainability and sociopolitical challenges these industries face.
Links: Mining & Metals, Power
Fifth Business, a specialist change management consultancy, enhanced our ability to effectively implement significant change within large client organizations, thereby ensuring the successful realization of project outcomes. The primary focus of Fifth Business lies in the execution of change programs, accompanied by the necessary communications and training that arose from these initiatives.
Contek played a crucial role in helping us mitigate the growing environmental, health, and safety risks associated with large production and exploration basins, strengthening ERM’s capacity to serve the US's oil and gas upstream and midstream markets.
CSA was acquired to support our mining clients in navigating their most intricate challenges, ranging from business strategy to specialized technical guidance on exploration, project development, and operational matters.
Link: Mining & Metals
SustainAbility was a leading think tank and advisory firm that inspired businesses to lead the way to a sustainable economy and helped define and evolve the sustainable development agenda and the role of business within it.
KJA was one of Australia's leading stakeholder engagement and communication consultancies specializing in stakeholder engagement in infrastructure and urban regeneration projects.
BrownFlyn was a leading corporate sustainability and governance consulting business, advising US businesses to set strategy, helping them navigate reporting frameworks and ratings, undertaking materiality assessments and setting bold goals and KPIs, communicating progress through design and storytelling, and monitoring environmental, social, and governance (ESG) trends.
Michael Pisani & Associates was a leading environmental consultancy focused on clients on the U.S. Gulf Coast and provided contaminated site management and litigation support services.
Pacific Environmental Consulting (PEC) and DLA were market leaders in Australia's Air Quality & Noise, Contaminated Land, Groundwater, and Surface Water consulting.
JSC was acquired to broaden its service offering to its clients in the chemical sector. JSC was a leading regulatory affairs consultancy based in the UK that provided expert independent regulatory and risk assessment advice in the area of agrochemicals, biocides, and general chemical legislation.
rePlan was a Canadian company that provided social assessment, advisory, and management services to natural resource and infrastructure companies and financial institutions around the world.
ReachCentrum is a Brussels-based professional services body, a niche player in the registration market for REACH, the European Union’s Regulation on chemicals and their safe use. The acquisition was an important part of ERM’s growth strategy, and it built its position in and access to the chemical sector.
For more information, please visit their website ReachCentrum.
Safety Design was a Norwegian risk management consultancy based in Kristiansand, Norway. This acquisition strengthened ERM's presence in Norway and positioned us better to serve clients' needs on complex global challenges.
NRG was a Minneapolis-based environmental consultancy. This acquisition broadened ERM’s capabilities in the midstream Oil & Gas sector and further strengthened its capability in the Power sector in North America.
ERM acquired the sustainability, health, safety, and environmental assets of Zer01, a private Australia-based information solutions consulting firm. The acquisition enhanced ERM’s Sustainability Information Solutions practice in Australia and added to the firm’s global knowledge base and experience in this area.
Rescan was a privately Canadian-owned environmental consulting firm offering a wide range of services to the resource development industry. This acquisition consolidated ERM’s leading position in the sustainability market, particularly in the resources sector.
OASIS Environmental was an environmental services company headquartered in Alaska, USA, with around 100 employees. This acquisition further strengthened ERM’s leading position in the resources sector, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest.
IRC was a Houston-based risk consultancy offering leading-edge process safety and quantitative risk assessment capabilities to our global oil and gas, mining, power, and major industrial clients.
If you are interested in your business joining ERM, please get in touch.