Transaction expands Montrose's environmental services footprint with U.S. Federal government and geographic presence in Southeast.

IRVINE, Calif. / ORLANDO, Fla. — January 4, 2020 -- Montrose Environmental Group, Inc. (the “Company,” “Montrose” or “MEG”) (NYSE: MEG) today announced the acquisition of MSE Group (“MSE”), a leading provider of environmental assessment, compliance, engineering, and design services primarily to the U.S. federal government. MSE’s leadership team, including President Miyoung Squire, will join Montrose, and the business will be integrated with the Company’s Remediation and Reuse Segment.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Based in Orlando, Fla., with 3 additional offices and satellite locations nationwide, MSE’s portfolio encompasses more than 160 federal and non-federal customers nationwide.In addition to supporting Fortune 500 companies around environmental, health and safety concerns, MSE has a substantial footprint in the environmental sector with the U.S. federal government, including contracts with the Department of Defense; the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps; Army Corps of Engineers; Department of the Interior; Department of Homeland Security; airports and transit authorities; and defense contractors.

“MSE gives us a strong anchor from which to provide additional environmental services to federal customers while also strengthening and expanding our presence in the growing Southeast,” said Vijay Manthripragada, President and Chief Executive Officer of Montrose Environmental Group. “With a new administration starting soon, we believe there will be opportunity for incremental upside around enforcement of current regulations, and MSE’s public sector exposure will allow us to strengthen our end-market exposure and provide additional cross-selling opportunities for Montrose. We are excited to welcome the talented professionals at MSE to our growing Montrose family.”

MSE Group President Miyoung Squire commented, “In combining with Montrose, MSE will benefit from being part of a larger group with greater access to capital and a significant national presence with exceptional talent across the U.S.We are also thrilled to be joining a culture similar to our own and aligned with our vision of being the preeminent provider of environmental services and a leading employer, focused on expanding professional opportunities for our employees.”

About Montrose

Montrose is a leading environmental services company focused on supporting commercial and government organizations as they deal with the challenges of today, and prepare for what’s coming tomorrow. With 1,700 employees across 70 locations around the world, Montrose combines deep local knowledge with an integrated approach to design, engineering, and operations, enabling the Company to respond effectively and efficiently to the unique requirements of each project. From comprehensive air measurement and laboratory services to regulatory compliance, emergency response, permitting, engineering, and remediation, Montrose delivers innovative and practical solutions that keep its clients on top of their immediate needs – and well ahead of the strategic curve. For more information, visit >www.montrose-env.com.

About MSE Group

MSE Group, LLC is an environmental engineering firm providing qualified and competitive environmental, engineering, and health and safety services to public and private entities nationwide. Success for our clients, teaming partners, and employees is derived from an intense work ethic and the ability to enjoy the journey. With over 100 employees spanning offices in Orlando, Tampa, Wilmington, and San Antonio, as well as additional satellite locations nationwide, MSE stands ready to support your needs. For more information, visit https://msegroup.com/.

Forward-Looking Statements

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Contacts

Investor Relations:
Rodny Nacier
(949) 988-3383
ir@montrose-env.com

Media Relations:
Doug Donsky
(646) 677-1844
Montrose@icrinc.com

MSE GROUP CONTINUES TO ASSIST THE COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, ONSITE SUPPORT, DECONTAMINATION, AND OTHER TIME-AND-SCOPE CRITICAL ACTIVITIES THROUGH CURRENT CHALLENGES.

MSE Group is a contractor for the Department of Defense, industrial sector, and many other areas. We provide environmental, health, and safety services that are deemed essential to military installations under the Defense Industrial Base exceptions from the Department of Homeland Security.

MSE remains an Essential Business during COVID-19 and continues to provide services under the March 19, 2020, Department of Homeland Security/CISA Memorandum on Identification of Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers During COVID-19 Response and the March 20, 2020, Department of Defense Memorandum for Defense Industrial Base.

We look forward to helping our clients while practicing social distancing guidelines and abiding by the CDC's recommendations.

• MSE is excited to have been highlighted in the Orlando Business Journal Book of Lists for Environmental Services Firms in Central Florida for 2019-2020.

MSE Group, LLC, is an international environmental, engineering, and construction firm providing qualified and competitive environmental, engineering, and health and safety services to public and private entities nationwide. Success for our clients, teaming partners, and employees is derived from an intense work ethic and the ability to enjoy the journey.

• MSE is on the forefront of the industry, dealing with emerging contaminants, such as PFAS, and managing AFFF. Because of our extensive federal experience with these chemicals of concern, we are specifically qualified to assist clients in mitigating potential risks associated with these types of projects. While everyone else in the industry is talking about these chemicals, MSE is doing the work!

Our experience includes

• • Review of historical documents to identify potential sources of PFASs
• • Site investigations to determine PFAS presence or absence in various environmental media
• • Conceptual site model development of to determine migration pathways and potential receptors
• • Regulatory coordination of site-specific remedial action goals and risk assessment input
• • Development of sampling and analysis plans and standard operating procedures
• • Preparation of data quality objectives and compliant UFP-QAPP
• • Groundwater, soil, sediment, surface water, potable water sampling, and AFFF concentrate sampling
• • Turnkey AFFF concentrate removal, replacement, and disposal in secure and flight line locations
• • Legal consultation and risk management regarding industry regulations and their potential effects
• • Safety plan development and personnel monitoring in absence of long-term toxicity data
• • Community relations support for communities affected by PFAS detections
• • Emergency response

July 2019 - QRI-MSE JV, LLC has been awarded one $8.4 million A-E Environmental Services Indefinite Delivery Contract as a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and another $8.4 million Contract as a Small Business (SB) with the USACE Tulsa District. These two five-year contracts aim to support projects assigned to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Southwestern Division (SWD) Regional Planning and Environmental Center (RPEC). QRI-MSE is a joint venture between Quaternary Research Investigations, LLC and MSE Group, LLC, two SWD-based EDWOSBs with a performance history blending resources to jointly execute complex environmental services contracts. The winning team also includes Tetra Tech, Burns & McDonnell and Booz Allen Hamilton.

The general scope of services for these two contracts is to conduct studies, investigations, surveying and mapping, tests, sampling, evaluations, consultations, comprehensive planning, program management, designs, drawings, and plans of engineering, geological, or other professional services to support customers' environmental programs.

MSE Group, LLC, is an international environmental, engineering, and construction firm providing qualified and competitive environmental, engineering, and health and safety services to public and private entities nationwide. Success for our clients, teaming partners, and employees is derived from an intense work ethic and the ability to enjoy the journey. We are an SBA-certified 8(a), EDWOSB 8(m), DBE business with additional state and local small business and minority certifications in numerous states across the country. With 14 branch and satellite office locations nationwide, MSE stands ready to support your needs and exceed your expectations every time.

February 2019 - MSEnSafe SB-JV, LLC, has been awarded a $75 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity Multiple Award Task Order Contract for Nationwide Environmental Engineering Services for the U.S. Coast Guard. MSEnSafe SB-JV, LLC, comprised of MSE Group and EnSafe, was created through a mentor-protégé agreement formed in July 2017. The winning team also includes Burns & McDonnell and Marstel-Day. The scope of services, which covers the entire United States and its territories, involves professional engineering and environmental services to support shore infrastructure, real property, and other projects. Task orders typically will focus on promoting, enhancing, and ensuring compliance with applicable federal, state, tribal, and local environmental laws and regulations, executive orders, Coast Guard policy, and other environmental stewardship directives.

MSE Group, LLC, is an international environmental, engineering, and construction firm providing qualified and competitive environmental, engineering, and health and safety services to public and private entities nationwide. Since 1980, EnSafe Inc. has provided regulatory compliance, site assessment, and restoration services for private industry and all levels of government nationwide. Together, we are poised to provide our powerful talents and vast resources to solve the toughest challenges while meeting sole-source, set-aside, and/or competitive small business goals.

December 2018 - Please join MSE Group in congratulating Maurice “Mo” Pearson, Vice President and lead for the MSE Natural Resources Practice area, on being named by Governor-elect Ron DeSantis to serve on the upcoming administration’s Transition Advisory Committee on the Environment, Natural Resources & Agriculture. As a member of this select group of more than 40 policy experts, state leaders, and executives, Mo will help advise and support efforts to shape the future of Florida’s policies to restore and protect our state’s unique environment, natural resources, and agriculture industry.

For more information on this announcement, please visit the Governor-elect news link at: https://desantistransition.com/news/

MSE Group, LLC, is an international environmental, engineering, and construction firm providing qualified and competitive environmental, engineering, and health and safety services to public and private entities nationwide. Success for our clients, teaming partners, and employees is derived from an intense work ethic and the ability to enjoy the journey. We are an SBA-certified 8(a), EDWOSB 8(m), DBE business with additional state and local small business and minority certifications in numerous states across the country. With 14 branch and satellite office locations nationwide, MSE stands ready to support your needs and exceed your expectations every time.

MSE is exhibiting at SAME Small Business Conference 2018. Our team, Mike Orcino, Paul Seavy, Miyoung Squire, Ellen Eveland, Will Breeden and Kellie Tomeo will be onsite at booth #646. The 2018 SAME Federal Small Business Conference for the A/E/C Industry will be co-located in New Orleans, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, with the Department of Veterans Affairs National Veterans Small Business Engagement. SBC has grown more than 60 percent in the last five years. SBC 2018 will have more than 3500 attendees, over 300 exhibitors and numerous federal agencies represented.

October 2018 - MSE Group has been awarded a $4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for Basewide Environmental and Sustainment Support (BEST) and Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization (SRM) support for USACE Mobile District. Under this 4-year contract, MSE will provide a full range of environmental compliance, base support services, SRM, installation restoration (IR), and Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) technical support activities to USACE customers. MSE has been a partner to USACE Mobile District for the last 15 years, completing over 60 task orders under multiple contracts.

MSE Group, LLC, is an international environmental, engineering, and construction firm providing qualified and competitive environmental, engineering, and health and safety services to public and private entities nationwide. Success for our clients, teaming partners, and employees is derived from an intense work ethic and the ability to enjoy the journey. We are an SBA-certified 8(a), EDWOSB 8(m), DBE business with additional state and local small business and minority certifications in numerous states across the country. With 14 branch and satellite office locations nationwide, MSE stands ready to support your needs and exceed your expectations every time.

October 2018 - MSE is exhibiting at FEDCON in Wilmington, NC today. Will Breeden, Regional Business Director and Katie Roy, Environmental Compliance Service Line Manager will be at the MSE booth. Stop by booth # 36 and say hello!

Southeast Region Federal Construction, Infrastructure and Environmental Summit (FEDCON) The Department of Defense continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on new construction at bases in NC. Military installations are also turning increasingly to Operation & Maintenance funding to execute sustainment and modernization of existing facilities. The NCMBC coordinates with military bases/federal agencies to secure forecasts, identify future opportunities, and provide web-based market intelligence on future contracts and current contractors. The Summit provides training on federal construction bidding, project execution and building mentor-protégé and other teaming alliances to compete for federal projects. The Summit also connects NC constructors, designers, suppliers and service providers with federal infrastructure buyers from all military services and agencies and with major prime contractors competing for and executing federal construction projects worldwide

October 2018 - MSE Group was recently awarded a 5-year contract to provide Environmental Compliance, Technical Management, and Support Services for Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The competitive procurement was issued under USACE Savannah District’s Regional Environmental Acquisition Tool (REAT) and was awarded to MSE and Plexus through our 8(a) joint venture, 3E-Plexus JV (formed in 2014 prior to the 3E/MSE merger in 2017). Fort Bragg was founded in 1918 as an artillery training post and is home to the 82nd Airborne Division and the Army Special Operations Command headquarters.

MSE Group, LLC, is an international environmental, engineering, and construction firm providing qualified and competitive environmental, engineering, and health and safety services to public and private entities nationwide. Success for our clients, teaming partners, and employees is derived from an intense work ethic and the ability to enjoy the journey. We are an SBA-certified 8(a), EDWOSB 8(m), DBE business with additional state and local small business and minority certifications in numerous states across the country. With 14 branch and satellite office locations nationwide, MSE stands ready to support your needs and exceed your expectations every time.

October 2018 - MSE Group, LLC, has won a Fence to Fence (F2F) Environmental Services award for the Air Force Civil Engineering Center (AFCEC) at Buckley Air Force Base, Aurora, Colorado. Issued through MSE’s General Services Administration (GSA) contract, this multiple-year award encompasses the full range of methods, technologies, and supporting activities necessary to conduct environmental operations and service efforts to address F2F environmental compliance requirements in support of the Air Force Environmental Quality Program. Buckley AFB is home to the 460th Space Wing and is a new project location for MSE.

MSE Group, LLC, is an international environmental, engineering, and construction firm providing qualified and competitive environmental, engineering, and health and safety services to public and private entities nationwide. Success for our clients, teaming partners, and employees is derived from an intense work ethic and the ability to enjoy the journey. We are an SBA-certified 8(a), EDWOSB 8(m), DBE business with additional state and local small business and minority certifications in numerous states across the country. With 14 branch and satellite office locations nationwide, MSE stands ready to support your needs and exceed your expectations every time.

September 2018 - MSE Group has been awarded a 5-year, $10 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for hazardous materials and waste management, environmental compliance, and engineering services within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast (NAVFAC SE) geographic area of responsibility. MSE has supported NAVFAC SE for the past six years, and this award represents the firm’s second consecutive IDIQ contract procurement. The solicitation was open to all 8(a) firms under the NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services) and award was made to the best-qualified firm in a two-step selection process.

MSE Group, LLC, is an international environmental, engineering, and construction firm providing qualified and competitive environmental, engineering, and health and safety services to public and private entities nationwide. Success for our clients, teaming partners, and employees is derived from an intense work ethic and the ability to enjoy the journey. We are an SBA-certified 8(a), EDWOSB 8(m), DBE business with additional state and local small business and minority certifications in numerous states across the country. With 14 branch and satellite office locations nationwide, MSE stands ready to support your needs and exceed your expectations every time.

September 2018 - MSE Group has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for environmental remediation services (ERS) through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District. The contract, which has a $230M ceiling shared among seven contractors, is part of the South Atlantic Division’s (SAD) Regional Environmental Acquisition Tool (REAT) and is open to decentralized ordering by any of the SAD districts. The REAT contract was awarded in conjunction with our trusted partner Plexus Solutions to our 8(a) joint venture, 3E-Plexus Solutions JV (formed in 2014 prior to the 3E/MSE merger in 2017).

MSE Group, LLC, is an international environmental, engineering, and construction firm providing qualified and competitive environmental, engineering, and health and safety services to public and private entities nationwide. Success for our clients, teaming partners, and employees is derived from an intense work ethic and the ability to enjoy the journey. We are an SBA-certified 8(a), EDWOSB 8(m), DBE business with additional state and local small business and minority certifications in numerous states across the country. With 14 branch and satellite office locations nationwide, MSE stands ready to support your needs and exceed your expectations every time.

This Thursday July 12th, Kellie Tomeo, Esq., MSE Group’s Risk Manager will be speaking on the topic of “Managing and Redefining Risk and Crisis” at the ASCE Florida Section Annual Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Join the conversation at The Vinoy, St. Petersburg, 2 pm, on this important subject in today’s environment.

Earth Day was founded in 1970 as a day of education about environmental issues. On the first Earth Day in 1970, 22 million Americans celebrated clean air, land and water.

Celebrate Earth day with us today at the 5th annual MCO Earth Day event. Orlando International Airport - Level 3 Hyatt Atrium from 10AM-2PM.

Congratulations to Ashley Signorelli!

The MSE Principals are excited to announce the promotion of Ashley Signorelli to an Associate of the firm. As you all know, we have developed the Associates Program to provide a path for enhanced career development, leadership incentives, and shareholder opportunities for all employees. On April 25th, Ashley will join Will, Jenn and Ellen in the Associate Program. Ashley will remain the Director of Operations and will be responsible for additional corporate strategic plans, projects and sales growth initiatives as defined by the Senior Management Team. She is a great asset and addition to the leadership of the firm and will continue to be a key part of the company's future success.

Please join us in congratulating Ashley in this milestone career achievement!

We congratulate the following team members on their achievements and wish them the best as they take on their new challenges:

Debbie White: Promoted to Mid-Level – Marketing Specialist
Kim Gallagher : Promoted to Mid-Level – Staff Accountant
Tony Pendleton: Will be taking on additional responsibilities assisting in service line management, project management and marketing.