NEW YORK-(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bregal Sagemount (“Sagemount”), a leading growth-focused private equity firm, today announced a strategic growth investment in Enhes (the “Company”), a leading provider of regulatory and sustainability intelligence worldwide. As part of the transaction, Sagemount will acquire ICG’s minority stake in Enhesa, and existing investor CGE Partners (“CGE”) will retain its majority stake in the Company. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
With its global headquarters in Brussels, Belgium and US headquarters in Arlington, VA, Enhesa empowers multinational corporations around the world to help create a more sustainable future by positively impacting the environment and ensuring the health and safety of their employees and customers. Bringing together some of the world’s most comprehensive data sets, AI-powered analytics and renowned subject matter experts in the areas of global operations, product and chemical management compliance and sustainability, Enhesa provides actionable compliance intelligence in more than 40 languages in more than 300 jurisdictions, supported by a team of over 100 in-house legal experts. Managing the rapidly changing regulatory landscape, Enhesa helps corporations meet their compliance and sustainability needs with confidence, now and in the future.
“We are thrilled to partner with Sagemount as we enter our next phase of growth,” said Peter Schramme, CEO of Enhes. “With their and CGE’s support and deep industry expertise, we believe we are well positioned to further invest in our current offerings as well as accelerate coverage of new content, use cases and customer verticals.”
“We see tremendous growth ahead for Enhes as a result of the company’s strong product-market fit and tangible ROI for customers,” said Pavan Tripathi, partner at Sagemount. “Enhesa has an impressive track record of consistently retaining and growing client relationships, as well as expanding new content offerings and jurisdictional coverage through organic and inorganic growth initiatives. We are excited to work with Peter, the Enhesa team and CGE.”
David Greenbaum, vice president at Sagemount, added: “For companies that operate, manufacture and sell globally, Enhesa is by far the leading provider of third-party content, enabling companies to monitor relevant environmental, health and safety (EHS) and other regulations across the globe. companies significantly faster and more accurately than in-house teams or various regional third-party content providers.”
“We have enjoyed a very successful partnership with Enhesa since we acquired the company in 2020. Under CGE’s ownership to date, Enhesa has significantly grown its business, expanded its industry-leading suite of EHS regulatory compliance content to also include product compliance and sustainability intelligence, and completed five strategic add-on acquisitions,” CGE commented. “We look forward to continuing to support Enhesa in its next chapter of growth together with Sagemount.”
Sagemount’s investment was led by Pavan Tripathi, Sandeep Swaminathan, David Greenbaum, Harrison Boyajian and Stephanie Li. Sagemount was advised by Raymond James and Goodwin Procter. Enhesa and CGE were advised by Houlihan Lokey and Travers Smith.
About Enhesa
Enhesa is a leading provider of regulatory and sustainability information worldwide. Headquartered in Brussels, with offices in Washington, DC, Williamsport, PA, Toronto, UK, Tokyo, Shanghai and Portugal, Enhesa empowers multinational corporations around the world to create a more sustainable future by positively impacting the environment and ensuring the health and safety of their employees and customers . Bringing together some of the world’s most comprehensive data sets, AI-powered analytics and renowned subject matter experts in global operations, product and chemical management compliance and sustainability, Enhesa provides actionable compliance intelligence in more than 40 languages in more than 300 jurisdictions. Managing the rapidly changing regulatory landscape, Enhesa helps corporations meet their compliance and sustainability needs with confidence, now and in the future. For more information about Enhesa, visit the company’s website at www.enhesa.com.
About Sagemount
Bregal Sagemount is a leading growth-focused private equity firm with more than $6.0 billion in capital raised. The firm provides flexible capital and strategic assistance to market-leading companies in high-growth sectors in a variety of transaction situations. Bregal Sagemount has invested in more than 70 companies across a variety of sectors, including software, information/data services, fintech and specialty finance, digital infrastructure, healthcare IT, and business and consumer services. The company has offices in New York, Palo Alto and Dallas. For more information, visit Sagemount’s website: www.sagemount.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
About CGE
CGE Partners is a European middle market investment fund. CGE invests in technology companies that facilitate the transition to a more digital, renewable, secure and compliant future, providing capital and expertise to accelerate expansion in global markets. For more information, visit the CGE website: https://cge-partners.com/.