Houlihan Lokey Advises Enhesa

Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that Enhesa, a portfolio company of CGE Partners (CGE) and ICG, has received a strategic growth investment from Bregal Sagemount (Sagemount). As part of the transaction, Sagemount will acquire ICG’s minority stake in Enhesa, with existing investor CGE retaining its majority stake.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Sagemount as we enter our next stage of growth,” said Peter Schramme, CEO of Enhesa. “Enhesa sits at the intersection of some of the most pressing regulatory and compliance issues confronting businesses today, and we strongly feel that, by delivering a comprehensive, truly global solution for compliance and sustainability intelligence, we are poised to continue to grow rapidly. With our new investor’s 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 new content coverage, use cases, and customer verticals.”

With its global headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and U.S. headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, Enhesa empowers multinational corporations worldwide to help create a more sustainable future by positively impacting the environment and ensuring the health and safety of its employees and customers. Bringing together some of the world’s most comprehensive datasets, AI-powered analytics, and renowned subject matter experts in the areas of global operations, product, and chemicals management compliance and sustainability, Enhesa provides actionable compliance intelligence in more than 40 languages across more than 300 jurisdictions, supported by a team of over 100 in-house legal experts. Navigating the fast-changing regulatory landscape, Enhesa helps corporations meet their compliance and sustainability needs with confidence, now and in the future.

CGE Partners is a European mid-market investment fund. CGE invests in tech-enabled businesses facilitating the transition to a more digital, renewable, secure, and compliant future, providing capital and expertise to accelerate expansion in global markets.

Bregal Sagemount is a leading growth-focused private capital firm with more than $6.0 billion of capital raised. The firm provides flexible capital and strategic assistance to market-leading companies in high-growth sectors across a wide variety of transaction situations. Bregal Sagemount has invested in more than 70 companies in a variety of sectors, including software, information/data services, financial technology and specialty finance, digital infrastructure, healthcare IT, and business and consumer services. The firm has offices in New York, Palo Alto, and Dallas.

ICG is a global alternative asset manager, based in 15 global cities and with $68.5 billion of total AUM. The firm has established a 30-year track record, partnering with ambitious businesses to deliver outstanding investment performance to clients. ICG offers a wide range of capital solutions for corporates and owners of real assets and creates sustainable value for stakeholders, shareholders, and communities.

Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to Enhesa on the acquisition. The transaction further enhances Houlihan Lokey’s extensive track record within governance, risk, and compliance B2B data, analytics, and software. Travers Smith served as the legal advisor to Enhesa.