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October 21-23, 2025 | Houston, TX
Texas and the South
M&A and Business Symposium
Symposium Schedule
Tues, Oct 21
Concurrent Business Workshops
Confidential CEO Meetings
Opening Reception
CEO Networking Dinners
Wed, Oct 22
General Sessions
Reception
CEO Networking Dinners
Thu, Oct 23
Keynote Presentation by Dr. Ray Perryman
Concurrent M&A and
Capitalization Panels
The Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston, TX
Join us for the 11th annual
Texas and the South Symposium
Bringing together over 200 AE and environmental consulting industry executives and investors in one of the nation’s most dynamic and fastest-growing cities.
Over three days at the luxurious, five-star Post Oak Hotel at Uptown, Houston, attendees will make new connections to advance their firms, learn what’s new in the world of M&A, discover business best practices, and explore the future of the industry.
What’s not to love about Houston in the fall, y’all…?
World class shopping, arts, and cultural attractions by day.
Exciting dining and nightlife after dark.
It’s the perfect venue and time to…
Network
- With over 200 AE and environmental industry executives, buyers, sellers, investors, and experts
- You’ll connect with decision-makers from across Texas, the South, North America, and overseas
- Make the connections to take your firm to the next level and achieve your goals
Learn
- How the industry is performing right now – and where it’s headed
- How to grow, transition, or exit your business
- How the trends sweeping the industry provide opportunities for you and your firm
- Best practices to improve your firm’s performance
Be Inspired
- All new for 2025, Integrating Acquisitions session explores the essential strategies for maximizing your acquisition ROI while reducing voluntary turnover and increasing employee engagement
- Explore the future of the industry with CEOs from ENR Top 500 firms
- Hear the stories of owners who’ve successfully sold or recapitalized their firms
A Special Focus on Mergers & Acquisitions
For over a decade, our Symposiums have provided a forum for AE and environmental industry acquirers, sellers and investors to network and learn. We’re committed to providing our guests with the most current intelligence on M&A trends and best practices, and real-time M&A valuations. Over the years, many industry transactions can point to our Symposiums as where the first meeting between buyer and seller took place.
- The industry’s most prolific and skilled acquirers share their perspectives on the market
- Deal-makers discuss what works and doesn’t in 2025
- Consolidation trends – and what they mean for your firm
- Private Equity – is it right for your firm?
- How deal valuations are performing in 2025 – increasing, flat, declining?
What’s New for 2025
Schedule Your Confidential, One-on-One Meeting with a Morrissey Goodale Consultant
Got a question about strategy? Or how to improve your bottom line? Want to know what’s next with industry M&A? Or how to value your firm? Or are you considering selling or recapitalizing your firm?
Schedule your 30-minute, confidential, one-on-one, in-person meeting with one of our team on the afternoon before the opening reception. Our consultants are available from 2:00 to 3:00 PM on Tuesday to meet with you. (Exclusively for firm CEOs and Presidents)
Next-Level CEO Networking
Join our principals—Nick Belitz, Brendon Cussio, and Jon Escobar—as they host small-group networking dinners on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. (Dinners are exclusively for industry CEOs, Presidents, and Board Chairs.)
Space is limited, so register soon to reserve your place at the table!
Two All-New Interactive Panel Discussions
M&A Integration Best Practices/Cases
This interactive panel discussion will discuss how to unlock the potential of acquisitions through integration best practices and how to avoid common mistakes.
Investing in the Industry: A Private Equity Perspective
This panel discussion will explore why the AE and environmental consulting industry are so attractive to Private Equity investors, explore what’s behind the over 120 Private Equity industry platform firms, why one quarter of the ENR Top 100 design firms have selected a capital structure that includes Private Equity, and what the next phase of Private Equity industry involvement looks like.
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Your registration fee includes opening reception on October 21, the full day of events, materials, reception on October 22, and breakfast and half day sessions on October 23.
Engineering Registered Continuing Education Program
Earn 7 Professional Development Hours
Morrissey Goodale has met the standards and requirements of the Registered Continuing Education Program. Credit earned on completion of this program will be reported to RCEP. Certificates of Completion will be issued to all participants. Complaints regarding registered providers may be sent to RCEP at www.RCEP.net