Suez Acquisition & Valuation

Sartorius Stedim Biotech is a leading provider of bioprocessing solutions. Its sells equipment and consumables for fermentation, filtration, fluid management, purification, and cell culture media for manufacturing biologic drugs and has a focus on single-use technology. It is a subsidiary of Sartorius AG, which has 71.5% ownership and 83% voting control. The business is geographically diverse, with 35% of sales from the Americas, 42% from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, 15% from Asia excluding China, and 8% from China.

Veolia is a French environmental-services group whose corporate origins date to 1853. It provides drinking-water production and distribution, wastewater treatment, waste collection and recycling, energy management and related infrastructure services. Municipal governments, utilities, industrial customers and commercial organizations contract with the group under operating, concession and service arrangements. Revenue comes primarily from long-term service contracts and the operation of essential environmental infrastructure rather than from equipment sales. At the time of Qatari Diar's 2010 investment, Veolia employed more than 310,000 people worldwide and reported 2009 revenue of EUR 34.5 billion across water, waste, energy and transportation. The group later narrowed its portfolio and in 2022 combined with most of the former SUEZ business, expanding its global water and waste operations.

Quest Diagnostics is a leading independent provider of diagnostic testing, information, and services in the US. The company generates over 95% of its revenue through clinical testing, anatomic pathology, esoteric testing, and substance abuse testing with specimens collected at its national network of roughly 2,300 patient service centers, as well as multiple doctors offices and hospitals. The firm also runs a much smaller diagnostic solutions segment that provides clinical trials testing, risk-assessment services, and information technology solutions.

Veralto is a diversified industrial firm organized into two segments. The water quality segment offers water analytics and water treatment solutions, while the product quality and innovation segment offers coding, packaging, and color solutions for consumer packaged goods and pharmaceuticals. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company has around 17,000 employees. Veralto generated approximately $5.5 billion in revenue in 2025.

Labcorp is one of the nation's two largest independent clinical laboratories, with roughly 20% of the independent lab market. The company operates approximately 2,000 patient-service centers, offering a broad range of 5,000 clinical lab tests, ranging from uncomplicated routine blood and urine screens to complex oncology and genomic testing.

GFL Environmental Inc is an environmental services company. Its offerings include non-hazardous solid waste management, infrastructure, soil remediation, and liquid waste management services. Its solid waste management business line, which generates the majority of the revenue, consists of the collection, transportation, transfer, recycling, and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste. Its Environmental Services business line includes liquid waste and soil remediation. The company's geographical segments are Canada and the United States. The company derives the majority of its revenue from the United States.

Mettler-Toledo supplies weighing and precision instruments to customers in the life sciences (around 55% of sales), industrial (around 40%), and food retail (around 5%) industries. Its products include laboratory and retail scales, pipettes, pH meters, thermal analysis equipment, titrators, metal detectors, and X-ray analyzers. Mettler leads the market for weighing instrumentation and controls more than 50% of the market for lab balances. The business is geographically diversified, with the Americas accounting for about 37% of sales, Europe about 27%, China about 16% and the rest of the world about 20%.

Revvity is a global life sciences and diagnostics company formed in 2023 following the rebranding of PerkinElmer. The company operates in two segments: life sciences, which provides reagents and instruments for biopharma and academic research, and signals software, and diagnostics, which offers tools in immunodiagnostics and newborn and reproductive health. Revvity’s products and services are sold worldwide, with major markets in the US, Europe, and China.

Eurofins, headquartered in Luxembourg, is a decentralized network of life sciences companies that provide various analytical tests and laboratory services. These include tests to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, purity, origin, and traceability of various biological substances and products. Eurofins operates over 950 laboratories in 61 countries. Its revenue from Europe, North America, and the rest of the world contributes approximately 50%, 40%, and 10% of total revenue, respectively. Its areas of business activity are food, feed, and environmental testing ("life"), biopharmaceutical services, diagnostic services and products, and consumer and technology products testing, which contribute approximately 40%, 30%, 20%, and 10% respectively.

Charles River Laboratories was founded in 1947 and is a leading provider of drug discovery and development services. The company’s research model & services segment is the leading provider of animal models for laboratory testing, which breeds and delivers animal research models with specific genetic characteristics for preclinical studies around the world. The discovery & safety assessment segment includes services required to take a drug through the early development process, including discovery services. The manufacturing support segment includes microbial solutions, which provide in vitro (nonanimal) testing products, biologics testing services, and avian vaccine services.

Water sells liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis tools. These analytical instruments provide essential information on various products, such as their molecular structures and physical properties, to help clients enhance the health and well-being of end users. As a percentage of sales in 2024, Waters generated 58% from biopharmaceutical customers, 31% from industrial clients, and 11% from academic/government institutions. In early 2026, Waters plans to merge with BD's life science and diagnostics business, which will substantially change those concentrations. Waters will wind up with more concentration in diagnostics (versus none now) and discovery-related life science tools.

Clean Harbors Inc is an environmental and industrial services provider that provides parts cleaning and related environmental services to commercial, industrial, and automotive customers. Its business segments are Environmental Services and Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions. Environmental Services includes waste collection, transportation, treatment, recycling, and disposal, along with industrial maintenance services. Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions provides used oil collection and manufactures base oil, vacuum gas oil, and lubricants. The company generates the majority of its revenues from the Environmental Services segment and operates in the United States, with maximum revenue, and Canada.

Waste Connections is a North American waste management company focused on integrated waste collection services. The firm primarily focuses on residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial waste collection, with a secondary market focus on rural areas. With 113 landfills and 222 transfer stations as of 2024, it is the third-largest waste management company by revenue. Revenue is split among six operating segments: Western, Southern, Eastern, Central, Canada, and Midsouth.

Originally spun out of Hewlett-Packard in 1999, Agilent has evolved into a leading life science and diagnostic firm. Today, Agilent's measurement technologies serve a broad base of customers with its three operating segments: life science and diagnostics, cross lab operations consisting of consumables and services, and applied end markets. Over half of its sales are generated from the biopharmaceutical, chemical, and advanced materials end markets, which we view as the stickiest end markets, but it also supports clinical lab, environmental, forensics, food, academic, and government-related organizations. The company is geographically diverse, with operations in the US and China representing the largest country concentrations.

Redwood Materials is a Carson City, Nevada company that recycles lithium-ion batteries and battery manufacturing scrap, refines the recovered metals and produces battery materials, and has expanded into grid-scale energy storage built from retired electric vehicle batteries. It was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, a co-founder and former chief technology officer of Tesla, and processes scrap from Panasonic's Nevada battery plant. Customers buy recovered cobalt, nickel, copper and lithium and cathode active material produced at its Nevada and South Carolina sites. Investors include Capricorn, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund, T. Rowe Price, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Baillie Gifford, Eclipse, NVentures and Google. It raised a Series E of 425 million dollars that closed in January 2026 at a valuation reported above 6 billion dollars, and it reported about 200 million dollars of revenue in 2024. In 2023 it bought the German recycler Redux Recycling to start European operations.

FCC Medio Ambiente is a Madrid-headquartered waste management operator serving Spain, Portugal, and other European markets. The company manages urban cleaning, wastewater treatment, and recycling facilities processing municipal and industrial refuse.

Shenzhen Energy Environmental Protection Co. is a Shenzhen-based waste disposal specialist offering research, engineering design, engineering design, and operation management services. The company handles municipal solid waste incineration, landfill operations, and hazardous waste treatment projects in Guangdong province and beyond.

EcoCeres is a Hong Kong-based advanced biorefinery company converting waste-based biomass into lower-carbon transport fuels and renewable chemical products. Its principal outputs include sustainable aviation fuel and hydrotreated vegetable oil made from used oils, agricultural residues and other waste feedstocks. EcoCeres supplies airlines, fuel distributors and transport-sector customers seeking certified substitutes for fossil jet fuel and diesel. Revenue is generated through industrial production and long-term sales of renewable fuels, supported by proprietary pretreatment and refining technology. The Hong Kong-headquartered company has developed commercial production in Asia and entered partnerships aimed at expanding sustainable aviation fuel adoption. HKIC’s capital and ecosystem support are intended to accelerate technology development, international market access and Hong Kong’s role in sustainable aviation.