Request for Proposal · 2025

The Leading Advisor to Environmental Engineering & Consulting

Gaya Capital delivers sector-focused M&A advisory and strategic counsel to private equity sponsors and investors in the global environmental engineering and environmental consulting markets.

$20^B

Transaction Value Advised

60⁺

Completed Engagements

15⁺

Years Sector Focus

100^%

Environmental Sector Dedicated

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Our Mandate

Sector Depth. Unmatched Access. Decisive Execution.

Gaya Capital was founded on a single conviction: that the environmental sector demands advisors who live inside it—not generalists visiting from the outside. Our team brings decades of dedicated expertise covering every sub-sector of environmental engineering and consulting, enabling us to move faster, price more accurately, and close deals that others cannot.

We serve leading private equity sponsors, family-owned platforms, and institutional investors navigating the dynamic consolidation occurring across remediation, compliance, testing, and sustainability consulting markets.

Exclusive Sector Focus

We do not advise across all industries. 100% of our transactional work is in environmental engineering and consulting — a focus that yields superior market knowledge, proprietary deal flow, and relationships built over years.

PE-Grade Analytical Rigor

Our processes mirror the diligence standards of leading private equity firms. We provide institutional-quality financial modeling, commercial due diligence, and market mapping for every engagement.

Proprietary Deal Flow

Our proprietary database covers 2,500+ companies across North America and Europe — enabling proactive origination of off-market opportunities for buy-side clients and maximizing competitive tension for sell-side mandates.

Aligned Incentives

As a dedicated boutique, our senior partners are personally involved in every engagement. We are incentivized only by successful outcomes — we succeed only when our clients succeed.

Advisory Services

Full-Spectrum M&A Advisory

From initial strategy through close, Gaya Capital provides end-to-end transaction advisory and strategic support tailored to the specific dynamics of the environmental sector.

Sell-Side Advisory

Strategic positioning, buyer targeting across financial and strategic sponsors, process management, and value maximization for founders, PE-backed platforms, and public companies seeking liquidity events.

Buy-Side Advisory

Target identification, proprietary outreach, strategic fit assessment, due diligence coordination, and negotiation support for PE sponsors executing platform and add-on acquisition strategies.

Strategic Due Diligence

Proprietary commercial diligence leveraging sector expertise — market sizing, competitive mapping, customer and regulatory risk assessment, and management team evaluation.

Capital Advisory

Growth equity, recapitalizations, and debt capital structuring for environmental platform companies seeking to fund organic growth or acquisition programs.

Sector Intelligence

Ongoing market intelligence, thematic research, and competitive landscaping for PE sponsors evaluating new sub-sector theses or monitoring existing portfolio companies.

Portfolio Support

Ongoing advisory to PE-backed environmental platforms on add-on pipeline management, integration strategy, and value creation initiatives through exit.

Engagement Process

How We Execute

Every Gaya Capital engagement follows a disciplined, repeatable process designed to maximize outcome certainty. Senior partner engagement throughout — no handoffs to junior staff.

Discovery & Alignment

Comprehensive intake on strategic objectives, investment criteria, timeline, and transaction parameters. We invest in understanding your thesis before we begin work.

Market Mapping & Targeting

Proprietary sector database deployed to identify and qualify targets or buyers. Rigorous scoring and prioritization based on your specific criteria.

Outreach & Process Management

Senior-led outreach, relationship-based access, and structured process management — NDA, IOI, management presentations, and LOI negotiation.

Diligence & Close

Support through confirmatory due diligence, SPA negotiation, and successful close. Post-close integration advisory available for continued platform development.

Sector Coverage

Deep Expertise Across Every Environmental Sub-Sector

Our sector knowledge spans the complete environmental services landscape — from highly regulated remediation and compliance markets to fast-growing sustainability and ESG advisory segments.

Environmental Remediation

Soil & groundwater · PFAS · brownfield redevelopment

Environmental Testing & Monitoring

Lab services · air quality · water testing

Compliance & Regulatory Consulting

EPA/state permitting · environmental health & safety

Engineering & Technical Services

Civil & geotechnical · subsurface investigation

Sustainability & ESG Advisory

Net-zero strategy · carbon accounting · reporting

Climate Risk & Resilience

Flood & wildfire risk · adaptation planning

Hazardous Materials Management

Asbestos · lead · industrial hygiene

Water & Wastewater Engineering

Treatment plant design · infrastructure consulting

Environmental Due Diligence

Phase I/II ESAs · transaction risk assessment

Why Gaya Capital

Built for This Sector. Proven at Every Stage.

The only M&A advisory firm with 100% of its practice dedicated to environmental engineering and consulting
Advised on transactions with combined enterprise value exceeding $20 billion across 60+ completed deals
Proprietary coverage universe of 2,500+ companies across North America and Europe
Active relationships with 80+ private equity sponsors investing in environmental platforms
Senior partner-led execution — no handoffs, no junior-led processes
Track record of off-market deal origination for buy-side clients across all sub-sectors

"Gaya Capital's sector depth is genuinely differentiated — they identified targets we had never encountered and understood the commercial nuances that generic advisors simply miss. The process was efficient, the outcome exceptional."

Managing Director, Leading Environmental PE Sponsor

The Gaya Difference

Sector-Only Practice

We have never advised outside environmental engineering and consulting. This singular focus means our market knowledge, relationships, and data are unmatched by generalist banks or multi-sector boutiques.

Relationships at Every Level

From founder-owned regional firms to publicly listed consultancies, our network spans every tier of the market — enabling off-market access that broader advisors cannot replicate.

Proprietary Data Advantage

Our continuously maintained database of 2,500+ companies provides clients with a real-time view of the market — valuation benchmarks, ownership structures, and strategic priorities.

Speed & Certainty

Sector expertise translates into faster diligence, more credible counterparties, and higher close rates. Our clients move with confidence because we have done this before — in this exact market.