Waste Connections acquires Rogue Waste

Waste Connections Inc., headquartered in Canada, has acquired Rogue Waste Inc, a waste service provider based in Medford, Oregon, and its affiliates. The transaction closed earlier this month and details of the sale were not disclosed.  

Founded in 1938, Rogue Waste is a vertically integrated provider of solid waste management solutions in the Pacific Northwest U.S. The company provides an end-to-end integrated suite of services that includes collection, transfer, disposal and beneficial reuse capabilities for residential, commercial and industrial customers.  

Rogue services more than 45,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in the region. According to the company’s Linkedin page, it has about 150 employees. Some of the affiliates under the company’s scope include Dry Creek Landfill Inc., Rogue Clean Fuels LLC. and Rogue Transfer & Recycling LLC.  

Waste Connections serves more than 8 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers in mostly exclusive and secondary markets across 43 states in the U.S. and six provinces in Canada. Waste Connections also provides nonhazardous oil field waste treatment, recovery and disposal services in several basins across the U.S. It also provides intermodal services for the movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest.  

Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial adviser to Rogue Waste and assisted in marketing, structuring, and negotiating the transaction on behalf of the company.