NEW YORK, NY— December 6, 2022

Alliance Technical Group, LLC (“Alliance”), backed by investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners (MSCP), completed its latest acquisition with the purchase of GBMc & Associates. This merger expands Alliance’s consulting capabilities and national resources.

Founded in 1996, GBMc & Associates is a multimedia environmental consulting firm located in Bryant, Arkansas. GBMc & Associates utilizes regulatory, scientific, and engineering expertise to provide outstanding environmental compliance and regulatory support for industrial and municipal customers, including Fortune 500 companies nationwide.

“Acquiring GBMc & Associates further strengthens Alliance’s position in the environmental consulting market,” said Chris LeMay, Alliance’s Chief Executive Officer. “The combination of GBMc & Associates’ experience in watershed and land use management, ecological services, and environmental regulatory compliance will help Alliance meet our customers’ growing needs for these unique environmental-related services.”

Scott Williams, Alliance’s Chief Revenue Officer, adds, “The GBMc culture of taking care of customers and employees as the most important aspect of their business fits in perfectly with Alliance core values of customer service, team, and response. We are very excited about the opportunity to expand our service lines to include the special skills GBMc & Associates bring to the table.”

EFCG is pleased to have served as financial advisor to Alliance Technical Group, LLC (Alliance), an environmental testing, monitoring, and analysis company backed by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners (MSCP), on its acquisition of GBMc & Associates, Inc.

About Morgan Stanley Capital Partners

Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, is a leading middle-market private equity platform that has invested capital in a broad spectrum of industries for over three decades. Morgan Stanley Capital Partners focuses on privately negotiated equity and equity-related investments primarily in North America and seeks to create value in portfolio companies primarily in a series of subsectors in the business services, consumer, healthcare, education and industrials markets with an emphasis on driving significant organic and acquisition growth through an operationally focused approach. For further information about Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, please visit www.morganstanley.com/im/capitalpartners.