Application Window for Industry M&A Awards Opens

Application Window for Industry M&A Awards Opens

Each year, the Excellence in Acquisitive Growth Awards recognize those AE and environmental consulting firms that are setting the standard for acquisitive growth—and being named a recipient puts your firm in distinguished company. If your firm is driving best-in-class deal-making or delivering exceptional post-acquisition results, this is your opportunity to earn industry-wide recognition alongside some of the most accomplished acquirers in the business.

Today, the application window opens for two of the three annual Awards: the M&A Best Practices Award and the Best Post-Transaction Performance Award.

The 2026 M&A Best Practices Award

To be considered for this Award, applicants must describe a process, initiative, technique, or strategy their firm deploys in either (a) deal-making or (b) integration of acquisitions that they consider worthy of recognition as an industry best practice—one that could be emulated by other acquirers seeking to achieve superior results. Previous recipients of this Award include Ardurra Group (Miami, FL) (ENR #48), Terracon (Olathe, KS) (ENR #19), and Trinity Consultants (Dallas, TX) (#66 on the ENR Top 200 Environmental Firms). If you would like to be considered for this Award, please submit an application below.

The 2026 Best Post-Transaction Performance Award

The Best Post-Transaction Performance Award recognizes those firms that deliver superior business results through their acquisitions. Applicants are evaluated using our Acquisition Performance Indicator (API), the AE industry’s only objective benchmark for post-transaction performance, which assesses results across revenue, profit, backlog, and voluntary turnover in the 12 months following the closing of a transaction. Previous recipients include UES (Orlando, FL) (ENR #39), Atwell (Southfield, MI) (ENR #70), True Environmental (New York, NY) (ENR #203), Tetra Tech (Pasadena, CA) (ENR #3), Salas O’Brien (Irvine, CA) (ENR #31), and KCI Technologies (Sparks, MD) (ENR #50). If you would like to be considered for this Award, please submit an application below.

The Awards Ceremony

The Awards ceremony for this year’s M&A Best Practices Award and Best Post-Transaction Performance Award will take place at the M&A and Capitalization Symposium in October. The venue for this year’s symposium is once again the beautiful five-star Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston, where attendees can learn and network with more than 120 AE and environmental consulting industry CEOs, M&A executives, investors, and experts.

Recognition and Engagement

In addition to the Awards and industry recognition, Morrissey Goodale will make a $1,000 donation to an AE industry-related 501(c)(3) organization chosen by each recipient. Award recipients will also have the option to be featured in an episode of the Morrissey Goodale Word on the Street podcast.

The Excellence in Acquisitive Growth Awards 

We created the Excellence in Acquisitive Growth Awards Series to recognize those acquirers that are improving how consolidation occurs in the AE industry and to share best practices so that the industry achieves better outcomes in terms of client satisfaction, employee engagement, and value for shareholders. The series is composed of three annual Awards and also includes the Most Prolific and Proficient Acquirer Award—awarded earlier this year to ZenaTech (Toronto, Canada).

Application

You may apply here for the M&A Best Practices Award. And the application for Best Post-Transaction Performance Award may be accessed here. You may of course apply for both. The application process for each Award should take you no more than 20 to 30 minutes to complete. 

The application window for both Awards closes at midnight Eastern on September 11, 2026, and Award recipients will be notified by September 19.

If you have any questions, please contact our Awards department at [email protected].