erisbeg partners with Chris Mee Group

erisbeg is delighted to announce it has made a significant investment in and is partnering with the Chris Mee Group, Ireland’s leading Health and Safety Specialist company, to help Chris Mee maximise its growth potential.

Based in Cork and Dublin, The Chris Mee Group (CMSE Safety Consultants and Trainers) is the largest provider of Health & Safety Consultancy, Recruitment and Training services in Ireland.  The company specialises in setting up ISO 45001 accredited safety management systems and in providing Safety Consultants and Training services to global clients in the pharmaceutical, chemical, software and other sectors nationally.  Chris Mee also provide high value Environmental, Climate Change and Carbon Emissions services to clients internationally.  CMSE is ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certified and partners with leading international insurance brokers to provide high quality risk management services nationally and internationally.

The primary services delivered to clients are:

• Health & Safety Consulting services such as provision of Safety Management Gap Analysis studies, Construction Safety services, Ergonomic Assessment, Asbestos Surveys, Occupational Hygiene, etc.
• Health and Safety Training including various Fire & Rescue Safety courses, Confined Space, Manual Handling, First Aid, Construction, accredited QQI, IOSH, PHECC, CSA & NEBOSH courses, Carbon Emissions and Climate Change courses and many more.
• Permanent and temporary Recruitment solutions in the EHS and related sectors.

Chris Mee, Managing Director of Chris Mee Group, will continue in his current role, alongside his highly experienced and competent management team and staff.

Alan Kerr, erisbeg Managing Partner said: “erisbeg has an existing presence in the Training and Compliance Solutions sector through The Food Safety Company, and we are delighted to expand our presence in the sector through our investment in The Chris Mee Group. We are very much looking forward to partnering with Chris and his team to help maximise the group’s potential growth both organically and by acquisition.”

Chris commented, “I am really excited about working with erisbeg partners Alan Kerr and Thomas Davy together with the entire erisbeg team.  At Chris Mee, we operate to the highest standards of integrity, so finding a likeminded partner was very important to us.  Since opening discussions with erisbeg, they have acted with professionalism and enthusiasm and a shared vision.  At Chris Mee Group we are looking forward to the next phase of our expansion working in close collaboration with the erisbeg team”

erisbeg is a growth capital investor, focused on high performing service businesses with international growth potential. 

erisbeg was advised by Deloitte Dublin (Finance), EY (Tax) and L.K. Shields (Legal)

Chris Mee Group were advised by Coombes Corporate Finance (Finance), Deloitte Cork (Finance), Quintas (Tax), ReganWall (Legal)

For further information on erisbeg please visit:  www.erisbeg.com

For further information on Chris Mee Group, please visit: www.cmse.ie