Trinity Consultants buys environmental consultancy Ecofish Research
Trinity Consultants, a Dallas-headquartered provider of environmental, health, and safety (EHS), engineering, and scientific consulting services, has acquired Ecofish Research, a Vancouver-based aquatic environmental consultancy.
Founded in 2000, Ecofish delivers services in environmental assessment, permitting, mitigation, compliance and effects monitoring, water resources engineering, and wildlife and terrestrial studies, among others. The firm works with energy, power, mining, and infrastructure companies, as well as with First Nations and public sector clients.
Ecofish has approximately 160 employees across offices in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Nova Scotia.
Trinity Consultants’ acquisition of Ecofish will expand its water ecology and aquatic sciences consulting teams to approximately 250 professionals. Ecofish’s leadership team will remain in place following the closing of the deal, for which financial terms were not disclosed.
“The Ecofish team is excited to be joining the Trinity Consultants family of businesses,” said Adam Lewish, founder and CEO of Ecofish. “We have been impressed with Trinity’s track record of acquiring and growing related businesses and we think there is great cultural compatibility as both organizations value technical excellence and empowering staff development.”
Trinity was last year acquired by private equity firm Oak Hill Capital. The company has more than 1,000 professionals across 70+ offices in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, China, and Australia.
Trinity delivers EHS, engineering, and scientific-focused consulting, technology, training, and staffing services to clients in the industrial, energy, manufacturing, mining, life sciences, and commercial/institutional sectors.
“We have been following Ecofish’s growth for some time and have come to respect Adam and his team even more over the past few months as we developed our growth strategy. We look forward to exploring the synergies between Ecofish and our aquatic teams in Canada, Ireland, Australia, and the US,” said Mike Remsberg, Trinity’s managing director of commercial and operational strategies.
