Natick, MA (April 9, 2025) –  Advanced Earth Sciences, Inc. (“AES”), a geotechnical and environmental engineering firm serving Southern California, joined Verdantas, a consulting firm delivering digitally enabled technical solutions for the environment, water, and energy transition markets. 

Founded in 1995, AES offers multidisciplinary services to clients in both the public and private sectors. These services include civil, geotechnical, groundwater, environmental, and solid waste engineering, as well as construction management and construction quality assurance. 

The transaction is part of Verdantas’ broader strategic expansion, which included four additional acquisitions across seven states. The other firms acquired include Horizons Engineering, Inc., Aqua Engineering Inc., Atlantic Resource Consultants, LLC (“ARC”), and Atlantic Environmental Consulting Services, LLC. 

“The addition of these teams strengthens Verdantas’ presence in key geographic markets while expanding our expertise in critical service areas,” said Jesse Kropelnicki, CEO of Verdantas. “This growth aligns with our mission of bringing together like-minded firms that share our culture of collaboration and innovation, creating new opportunities for staff. By expanding our team of experts and technical capabilities, we are enhancing our integrated approach to solving challenges in the environmental, water and energy transition sectors.” 

For more details about this transaction click here.

Morrissey Goodale, a specialized management consulting and research firm exclusively serving the architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting industries, initiated the transaction and advised Advanced Earth Sciences. 

About Morrissey Goodale

Morrissey Goodale has helped hundreds of clients transform and grow their architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting companies into high-level performers through strategic business planning, mergers and acquisition advisory, valuation and ownership transition, market research, marketing and business development, leadership training and development, Lean Operation Strategies, organizational development and management, virtual reality solutions, and executive search. Morrissey Goodale’s team of M&A consultants assist throughout the M&A process, from preparing firms for a transaction to a successful integration. 

Morrissey Goodale’s extensive network of relationships with AE industry decision-makers around the globe uniquely qualifies the firm to identify the right buyers or sellers and guide AE firms through the complex merger or acquisition process, from conception to close.

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