ERM, the world's largest specialist sustainability consultancy, and Auquan, a leader in agentic AI for institutional finance, have announced a strategic collaboration to integrate autonomous AI agents into sustainability workflows. ERM will utilize Auquan’s Sustainability Agent to deliver faster, more scalable, and deeper insights to financial institutions facing complex regulations and investment mandates.
Regulatory frameworks such as SFDR Article 8 are increasing scrutiny on corporate sustainability claims, driving demand for comprehensive, scalable reputational risk assessments. By integrating Auquan’s agentic AI, ERM can quickly surface potential risks from vast data sources, including news, disclosures, and reports, enabling more efficient due diligence for private markets investors in buyouts, growth equity, and infrastructure.
The collaboration allows ERM to provide data-driven, timely insights that help clients mitigate risks and strengthen investment decisions. Auquan’s autonomous agents handle complex, data-heavy workflows end-to-end, freeing sustainability and investment teams to concentrate on high-value strategic activities rather than manual data processing.
ERM contributes decades of experience advising leading private equity firms and portfolio companies across thousands of global deals, blending technical sustainability knowledge with commercial acumen. Auquan brings market-leading agentic AI capable of autonomously completing investment analysis, risk monitoring, compliance, and sustainability tasks, as trusted by institutions including MetLife, T. Rowe Price, and BC Partners.
“As demand for sustainability advisory accelerates and regulatory requirements become more complex, we are enhancing our capabilities by embedding scalable AI solutions to meet our clients’ growing needs,” said Andrew Radcliff, global service leader for mergers and acquisitions at ERM. “Our collaboration with Auquan enables us to provide faster, data-driven insights that help to mitigate risk and enhance investment decisions.”
“The work required to properly assess ESG risks and impacts is among the most data-intensive and time-consuming in finance,” said Chandini Jain, CEO of Auquan. “ERM is the gold standard in sustainability consulting, and together we’re using agentic AI to empower firms to deliver on their investment mandates while moving faster and reclaiming their time to focus on strategic work.”
About ERM
Sustainability is our business. As the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, deploying a unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities. This approach helps clients to accelerate the integration of sustainability at every level of their business. With more than 50 years of experience, ERM's diverse team of 8,000+ experts in 40 countries and territories helps clients create innovative solutions to their sustainability challenges, unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.
About Auquan
Auquan is the market leader in agentic AI for institutional finance. The company’s AI agents autonomously complete complex workflows end-to-end, eliminating manual effort in investment analysis, risk monitoring, compliance, and sustainability. Leading global institutions including MetLife, T. Rowe Price, and BC Partners rely on Auquan’s AI agents to handle mission-critical work that previously consumed days of analyst time, enabling their teams to focus on high-impact strategic work. Since 2024, Auquan has saved customers collectively more than 100,000 hours of manual work.
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