One Click LCA acquires Pré Sustainability

Name of the deal:           One Click LCA acquires PRé Sustainability
Date announced:            02-09-2025 (announced)  12-08-2025 (closed)
Date closed:                      02-09-2025 (announced)  12-08-2025 (closed)
Published value:             EUR 25-50m
Buyer(s):                            One Click LCA Ltd (Finish)
Target:                                 PRé Sustainability B.V.
Seller:                                  Sec Mieras Beheer B.V. and Product Ecology Holding B.V.

Involved firms and advisors

Involved firms and advisors buy side:
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (legal)  KPMG (tax)  Interpath (Financial)

Involved firms and advisors target:
Rutgers & Posch (legal)  Stockalper M&A (corporate finance)  Atlas Tax lawyers (tax)  Castrén & Snellman (legal – local counsel)

Involved firms and advisors sell side:
Rutgers & Posch (legal)  Stockalper M&A (corporate finance)  Atlas Tax lawyers (tax)  Castrén & Snellman (legal – local counsel)

Pitch

Deal Outline
SimaPro and PRé Sustainability are now part of One Click LCA, the world’s leading life-cycle assessment (LCA) platform for impact, compliance, and growth — combining scientific rigor and easy-to-use tools to drive carbon reduction globally. The joint platform now includes the world’s largest LCA database, with +500,000 datasets across construction, manufacturing supply chains, chemicals, and other sectors.

Why This Deal Should Win the Award for Best Deal Small-Cap 2025
About One Click LCA
A Finnish software company specializing in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon accounting, and sustainability management. Its platform helps companies measure, reduce, and report environmental impacts across construction, manufacturing, and product design sectors. Backed by PSG and InfraVia, it serves clients worldwide with automated and AI-driven sustainability tools.

About PRé Sustainability
A Dutch sustainability consultancy founded in 1990, best known for developing SimaPro, one of the world’s leading LCA software tools. The company provides expertise, training, and data solutions to help organizations integrate life cycle thinking into their strategies and product development.

After a long and careful process, One Click LCA, the global leader in scalable, easy-to-use life-cycle assessment (LCA) software has acquired SimaPro, the world’s trusted science-based LCA software, and its developer, PRé Sustainability. Together, they now offer the world’s largest and most advanced LCA platform for every industry, with an ambition to reach 1-million users by 2035 – making it a one-stop-shop for LCA and sustainability, available globally.

This transaction is a big milestone in the development of access to, and the ability to create, product-specific LCA data, which is critical for the industry to be able to reduce CO2 emissions and comply with new regulations. Datasets show the carbon impact of a material or product from cradle to grave, providing companies with an understanding of how their decisions impact their carbon footprint – and how to reduce it over time. The combined platform will provide the tools, data, and services to deliver actionable carbon insights, enable compliance, and drive sustainable growth across all industries – at planetary scale.

This transaction is also a pivotal moment in scaling the use of LCA. SimaPro has set the benchmark for transparency in LCA for 30 years, while One Click LCA has focused on making LCA scalable, accessible, and actionable. By joining forces, the parties can meet the growing global demand for high-quality sustainability data – from research labs to global supply chains – and accelerate progress toward a zero-carbon future. The combined platform brings together SimaPro’s market-leading position in science-based, industry-agnostic LCA modeling with One Click LCA’s automation, scalability, and integrations that fit seamlessly into existing workflows across several industries.

With sustainability regulations tightening worldwide, the combined offering enables faster, easier, and more robust compliance with frameworks including the EU Construction Products Regulation, Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, and Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. Tailored sectoral solutions will address construction, manufacturing, consumer, infrastructure, and more.

Together, One Click and PRé work with +5,000 globally leading companies, including Siemens Energy, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, AECOM, and ABB – as well as partnerships with industry software leaders, such as Autodesk and Bentley Systems. Their tools are adopted by 9 of the 10 top global sustainability consultancies, 10 of the 10 top global architecture firms, 9 of the 10 largest construction product manufacturers, and leading consumer goods and chemical companies.

Given the political pressure that is currently enforced on the sustainability sector, this transaction is a key step in enabling business to continue their efforts to do good in terms of CO2 emission reductions and to stop climate change worldwide. The Transaction was carefully considered by the Seller, whereby the paid a substantial amount of time in assessing and finding the right buyer. The sustainability background of the buyer and field of expertise it is in convinced the Sellers to make this step and to partner with One Click to build world’s largest and most advanced LCA platform for every industry.

The Company and the Sellers were advised by the Swiss corporate finance advisor Stockalper, who is a corporate finance advisor only specialized in sustainability related transactions. From the legal side, the Sellers were represented by Rutgers & Posch, whereby the worked closely together with the Finish law firm and the buyer was represented by De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek.

Impact of This Deal on the Company
Together, the parties can now offer the world’s largest life cycle assessment platform for every industry. This brings together SimaPro’s market-leading position in science-based, industry-agnostic LCA modelling with One Click LCA’s automation, scalability, and integrations that fit seamlessly into existing workflows across industries. Both SimaPro and One Click LCA will continue as distinct products, strengthened by joint investments in AI, supply chain data integration, extended databases, and sector-specific compliance solutions. That means they can offer more products, capabilities, data, and services to help companies scale their sustainability impact.

Impact of This Deal on Direct Stakeholders
The impact for the stakeholders is big. One of the shareholders has founded the company 35 years ago, being way ahead of the curve in this field of expertise. He build the company to what it is today and to sell his baby was a huge and emotional step. The other shareholder is also the CEO of the company and will continue in that role after Completion. For him, there will be a great challenge to further build and expand the product, together with this new, ambitious partner.

Impact of This Deal on Society
Both SimaPro and One Click LCA will continue as distinct products, strengthened by joint investments in AI, supply chain data integration, extended databases, and sector-specific compliance solutions. That means more products, capabilities, data, and services will become available to help businesses scale their sustainability impact.

Around the world, companies are under pressure to measure and reduce their impact with greater accuracy and speed. The transaction unites scientific rigor with scalable technology to meet that challenge. Together, the companies are enabling industries to move faster toward a sustainable future.     Given the (political) pressure that is currently enforced on the sustainability sector, this transaction is a key step in enabling business to continue their efforts to do good in terms of CO2 emission reductions and to stop climate change worldwide.

Most Complex Aspect of This Deal
The most complex about this deal was that the sellers put very high standards on the acquiring party, as they wanted to ascertain that their company would come in the right hands. Furthermore, the buyer was a Finish ltd which made it harder to agree a deal that fitted in both the Dutch and the Finish market standards. Also, the fact that both sellers had a different perspective about their future, made it harder to align them and to make them both comfortable with the outcome of the negotiations.