GFL Environmental Inc., Toronto, announced that it has completed the previously announced merger with Raleigh, North Carolina-based Waste Industries, which was valued at an enterprise value of U.S. $2.825 billion.
Waste Industries is a vertically integrated provider of non-hazardous solid waste collection, transfer, recycling and disposal services with operations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Colorado, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Together with Waste Industries, GFL is the largest private environmental services company in North America, with operations in all Canadian provinces, except Prince Edward Island, and in 20 states in the United States.
The merger was financed in part through an additional equity investment from GFL's current consortium of investors led by affiliates of London-based BC Partners, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, certain shareholders of GFL, including GFL CEO Patrick Dovigi, and from rollover investors of Waste Industries, including the founding Poole family and New York-based HPS Investment Partners. Additional debt financing for the merger was provided through GFL's Second Amended and Restated Term Loan B Facility. Upon completion of the merger, Ven Poole, the former chairman and CEO of Waste Industries, joined GFL's board of directors.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, and Stikeman Elliott LLP, Montreal, acted as legal advisors to GFL. Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles, and Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, Raleigh, acted as legal advisors to Waste Industries. Lee Lloyd advised the Poole family. Barclays Bank, London; BMO Capital Markets, Toronto; and Royal Bank of Canada, Montreal, are joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners under the Term Loan B Facility.