M&A Activity Report for the week of 5/1/2023 – 5/7/2023

May 09, 2023

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Domestic Transactions:

5/2/2023

Engineering design firm IMEG (Rock Island, IL) acquired MEP and fire protection engineering design firm Lilker Associates (New York, NY). Link to Details.

 

5/4/2023

Engineering design, consulting, and construction management firm CHA (Albany, NY) acquired full-service engineering firm Javan Engineering (Fort Washington, PA). Link to Details.

 

5/1/2023

GZA GeoEnvironmental (Norwood, MA), a geotechnical, environmental, ecological, water, and construction management services provider, acquired Glorieta Geoscience (Santa Fe, NM), a professional consulting services provider in groundwater development, water rights, agricultural science, litigation support, and environmental science. Link to Details.

 

5/4/2023

Engineering, procurement, consulting, and construction firm Black & Veatch (Overland Park, KS) acquired Bird Electric Enterprises and Bird Electric Properties, both part of self-perform electrical construction services provider BASElectric Holdings (Eastland, TX). Link to Details.

 

5/1/2023

Full-service, multidisciplinary consulting firm LJA Engineering (Houston, TX) acquired professional surveying and civil engineering consulting firm R.J. Rhodes Engineering (Sarasota, FL). Link to Details.

 

5/1/2023

In its second transaction this week, LJA Engineering (Houston, TX) acquired consulting engineering and land surveying firm Carter Associates (Vero Beach, FL). Link to Details.

 

5/2/2023

CMTA (Louisville, KY), an engineering and energy services firm, joined forces with Genesis Engineering Group (Zionsville, IN), a full-service MEP engineering firm. Link to Details.

 

5/5/2023

Barton Associates (York, PA), a consulting engineering firm providing MEP, fire protection, and architectural lighting design services, acquired Maple Engineering (Raleigh, NC), an MEP engineering design firm. Link to Details.

 

5/1/2023

Studio+ (Fort Myers, FL), an architecture and design firm, acquired Assemble Design (Traverse City, MI), a full-service architectural, brand development, and interior design firm. Link to Details.

 

5/3/2023

Critical testing, inspection, certification, and compliance services provider Applied Technical Services (Marietta, GA) acquired high-end instrument calibration services provider Process Instruments (Pittsburgh, PA), calibration and metrology services provider Instrumentation Technical Services (West Chester, PA), and calibration and dimensional inspection services provider Accu-Chek (Corydon, IN). Link to Details.

 

Global Transactions:

5/3/2023

WSP (Montreal, Canada), a professional services firm, acquired lgt (Sainte-Foy, Canada), an advisory services provider for mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineering and sustainable development. Link to Details.

 

5/2/2023

Colliers Engineering & Design Australia (Sydney, Australia) acquired multidisciplinary engineering, design, and survey firm Craig & Rhodes (Rhodes, Australia). Link to Details.

 

5/2/2023

Global design firm Hatch (Mississauga, Canada) announced the integration of high-quality systems development and construction specialist Küttner (Essen, Germany) into its group of companies. Link to Details.

 

5/3/2023

Montrose Environmental Group (North Little Rock, AR), an environmental solutions company, entered into an agreement to acquire all the issued and outstanding shares of Matrix Solutions (Calgary, Canada), an environmental and engineering consulting company. Link to Details.

 

5/1/2023

TSA Management (Sydney, Australia), a project management and advisory consulting firm, acquired Henry Riley (Croydon, UK), a project management and quantity surveying firm. Link to Details.

 

5/2/2023

Infrastructure maintenance, rehabilitation, and technology-enabled water solutions provider Aegion (St. Louis, MO) acquired trenchless water rehabilitation services specialist Infraspec Services (Laval, Canada). Link to Details.

 

4/27/2023

Expanding into the mixed-used residential, hospitality, and infrastructure markets, ADP Architecture (Birmingham, UK) acquired Ethos Design and Architecture (London, UK). Link to Details.

 

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