HIG Capital’s (HIG) portfolio company, Riveron Consulting (Riveron), a national business advisory firm, has acquired Clermont Partners (Clermont), a women-owned consultancy specialising in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) communications and strategy, investor relations, and transaction communications.
Founded in 2015 by industry veterans Elizabeth Saunders and Victoria Sivrais, Clermont has a team of 35 ESG and financial communications specialists in Chicago and Washington, DC.
The acquisition bolsters Riveron’s critically important ESG offering with a robust suite of services to support clients at every stage of their sustainability journey. It also introduces new investor relations and transaction communications capabilities to help clients enhance their engagement with investors and communicate more effectively against the backdrop of increasingly complex and rapidly evolving capital markets. Saunders and Sivrais will co-lead Riveron’s newly created ESG and Strategic Communications practice.