The McLean Group has established the Water, Wastewater & Environmental Practice Group with the addition of Managing Directors Mark Bertler and James Simpson. They collectively bring more than 50 years of executive-level water industry operating and investment-banking experience at leading global water companies, where they operated or advised water clients on a wide range of strategic alternatives including mergers and acquisitions (buy-side/sell-side), recapitalizations, management buyouts and capital formation. Collectively, Bertler and Simpson have completed or advised on more than 45 middle market transactions, ranging in value from $5 to $100 million (USD) and closed more than $1 billion in deal value. They have led transactions and strategic advisory engagements with many of the industry’s preeminent water and wastewater firms.