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Atwell Acquires Manhard Consulting
Natick, MA (August 26, 2025) – Atwell has announced the acquisition of Manhard Consulting, a nearly 400-person engineering and surveying firm. The transaction represents the largest acquisition in Atwell’s 120-year history.
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Natick, MA (August 26, 2025) – Atwell, a full-service consulting, engineering, and construction services firm, has announced the acquisition of Manhard Consulting, a nearly 400-person engineering and surveying firm headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois. The transaction represents the largest acquisition in Atwell’s 120-year history.
This strategic move strengthens Atwell’s presence in core markets such as Illinois, Colorado, and Texas while expanding its reach into new regions, including Tennessee and Nevada.
Founded in 1972, Manhard Consulting has grown into a nationally recognized firm with hundreds of employees across 14 offices. The company provides a wide range of services, including engineering, surveying, project management, landscape architecture, land planning, water resource management, and construction management, serving a diverse client base nationwide.
“Manhard is known for its innovation, technological excellence, and commitment to clients and employees, and we’re excited to welcome them into the Atwell Family,” stated Matthew C. Bissett, President at Atwell. “We see this acquisition as a catalyst for growth across both companies. We’ll both be able to expand our geographic presence, enhance our collective skill set, and deliver increased value to our clients.”
Donald E. Manhard, CEO of Manhard Consulting, commented, “Atwell is a business of talented professionals who are dedicated to their clients and excel at creative problem-solving—qualities we share at Manhard. This is an ideal opportunity to combine our similar values, team expertise, and cultures to deliver more growth opportunities for our staff and stronger service offerings to current and new clients from coast to coast.”
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Morrissey Goodale, a specialized management consulting and research firm exclusively serving the architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting industries, initiated the transaction and advised Atwell.
Source: Atwell
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, AI and innovation, and acquisition integration services. 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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