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MHA advises on sale of Yordas Group to 3E
MHA’ s corporate finance team has advised Yordas Group, a leading international provider of scientific consulting and regulatory content services, on its sale to 3E, a USheadquartered global provider of expert-led AI compliance solutions for chemical and workplace safety, product stewardship, and sustainable supply chains.
Headquartered in Lancaster UK and with operations in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, Yordas supports manufacturers, importers, and distributors in navigating complex chemical and product compliance requirements.
The company holds the King’ s Award for Enterprise in International Trade with its proprietary platforms serving clients across global regulatory intelligence, hazard communications, and scientific services.
The acquisition extends 3E’ s regulatory content leadership and joins two organisations that pride themselves on building and aligning the industry’ s top talent of advanced regulatory and chemical experts.
It further solidifies 3E as the product compliance solution provider with the industry’ s broadest global product compliance regulatory content coverage, the deepest regulatory and scientific expertise, and the most advanced AI-led innovation.
With the addition of Yordas, 3E will now be able to provide end-to-end chemical registration services, helping manufacturers and importers meet their obligations under EU REACH, UK REACH, and other global compliance regimes.
MHA provided corporate finance and tax advice to Yordas with its team led by Rob Richardson, Phil Yarwood, Ralph Walker-Moretti and Rachel Marsdin. Lewis Silkin provided legal advice to Yordas with its team led by Corporate Partner Ashi Amershi and supported by Hope Bell, Emma McGrory and Johanna Cunningham.
Jonathan Lutwyche OBE, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Yordas Group, said:“ For nearly two decades, Yordas has built a reputation for scientific rigor and trusted regulatory expertise, and joining 3E is the natural next step in that journey.
“ 3E shares our commitment to helping customers navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, and its AI-led platform gives our science and content the scale to reach more businesses worldwide.”
Rob Richardson, Corporate Finance Partner at MHA, commented:“ This transaction sees the coming together of two highly specialist businesses that are both global leaders in their field. The complementary services offered by 3E and Yordas will provide huge benefits for their customers around the world, helping them to stay compliant, reduce risk and keep people safe.
“ We’ re delighted we’ ve been able to support the team at Yordas to complete this important transaction.”
Ashi Amershi, Corporate Partner at Lewis Silkin, said:“ It has been a pleasure to advise Yordas on this landmark transaction. The alignment between the two businesses is clear, and the deal represents an excellent outcome for the Yordas team and its stakeholders. We are proud to have helped bring together two organisations whose combined capabilities will set the standard for global regulatory compliance.”
Greg Gartland, Chief Executive Officer of 3E, said:“ We have always admired and respected the Yordas team. This highly complementary acquisition advances 3E’ s vision to be the most trusted partner our customers can rely on as they navigate an increasingly complex and global regulatory landscape.
“ With this combination, 3E will have the private sector’ s single largest group of chemical regulatory experts. Yordas’ scientific depth and trusted expertise strengthen the foundation we are building for the future – one where expertly curated regulatory content and intelligence powers trusted AI solutions to create speed, scale and unprecedented visibility and problem solving for product compliance.”
Drawing on more than a decade of experience and in-house scientific and technical experts, Yordas supports every stage of the registration process, from strategy and route selection to full
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dossier development, data sharing, and liaison with regulatory authorities such as ECHA.
Managing REACH registrations for over 100 multinational companies, Yordas secures market access and long-term supply-chain compliance, all delivered under ISO 9001, 27001, and 14001 certified management systems.
Yordas also extends 3E’ s expertise and reach into discrete industries such as cosmetics, automotive, and polymers, and further strengthens 3E’ s global regulatory coverage in its core industries, including chemicals and manufacturing.
Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, 3E is an AI-driven software and data company that delivers trusted compliance and sustainability intelligence, enabling companies to operate safely, responsibly, and with confidence. The company has recently been recognised on Fast Company’ s 2026 World’ s Most Innovative Companies list and was named AI- Based Compliance Solution of the Year in Tech Breakthrough’ s 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards.
For more than 35 years 3E has combined deep regulatory expertise and data science with authoritative, highly curated chemical and regulatory content to support manufacturers, chemical companies, retailers, pharmaceutical companies, and other highly regulated industries worldwide.
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