Blog : Mergers & Acquisitions

Global engineering and environmental consultancy Ricardo (Shoreham-by-Sea, UK) announced that it has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire the assets, operations, and employees of Transport Engineering (Chatswood, Australia). Dave Shemmans, CEO of Ricardo plc commented: “I am delighted to be able to announce the signing of the share purchase agreement with Transport Engineering and look forward to welcoming […]

Montrose Environmental Group (Irvine, CA), through its wholly owned subsidiary Enthalpy Analytical (Irvine, CA), acquired the business of Golden Specialty (Houston, TX), an air testing laboratory. “This acquisition supports our strategy to find companies that align with our values and expand our laboratory offerings into new geographic markets,” said Steve Eckard, Executive Vice President of Enthalpy. “Golden is a great […]

Multidisciplinary consultant Quincy Engineering (Rancho Cordova, CA) merged with public infrastructure engineering firm Murraysmith (Portland, OR) (ENR #490).  “I’m so excited to merge with a firm that holds a similar mission. The Quincy Engineering and Murraysmith teams have been collaborating for nearly 10 years, and we’re excited to be moving forward together,” said Murraysmith President and CEO Chris Rayasam, who serves […]

Fehily Timoney and Company (Cork, Ireland) has taken over Applied Ground Engineering Consultants‘ (Carlow, Ireland) services, an investment which significantly increases the size of its geotechnical team. FT and AGEC have worked together on major projects across Ireland and the UK for over 20 years. Their combined capabilities and experience offers a broad, competitive range of geotechnical and […]

ENR’s #15 ranked international design firm, Sweco (Stockholm, Sweden), acquired MLM Group (Ipswich, UK), bolstering its range of multidisciplinary services and geographic footprint in the UK. Max Joy, president of Sweco UK, said: “This acquisition marks the start of an exciting new chapter in our UK growth story. The combination of Sweco and MLM Group’s expertise in transport, […]

The first of a two-part exploration of how today’s architecture practices must transform to survive from DesignIntelligence. Today’s architecture practices face existential change. Not only is the industry neck-deep in a massive consolidation, spurred largely by mergers and acquisitions,1  but all the traditional challenges continue to stack up against long-term survival—from the creeping commodification of […]

Integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services consultancy RSK Group (Helsby, UK) acquired two businesses: Biocensus (Bath, UK), an ecological consultancy, and Consents Solutions (Norfolk, UK), a wayleave business. “Biocensus and Consents Solutions are two fantastic businesses with their clients’ needs at their hearts,” said RSK’s founder and chief executive officer Alan Ryder. “Biocensus’s team of passionate ecologists offers a pragmatic […]

OMB Electrical Engineers (Irvine, CA) joined industry-leading facilities planning and design firm Salas O’Brien (Santa Ana, CA) (ENR #188). The addition of OMB will create a combined firm of 24 offices with more than 650 employee-owners.  “I am so excited to have the OMB team and leaders join Salas O’Brien,” said Darin Anderson, Salas O’Brien chairman and CEO. “OMB, like […]