M&A Update: Deals in AZ, CA, TX, VA, IL, and MA; U.S. M&A up 38%

Memorial Day Weekend

We wish all of our readers a safe and happy Memorial Day holiday weekend. In observance of the holiday, there will be no Word on the Street this Monday. The next issue will be on June 6th, 2022.

Domestic Transactions

5/24/2022
CivTech (Scottsdale, AZ), a specialist in traffic engineering, transportation planning, and traffic design, merged with Mathieu Engineering (Tucson, AZ), a traffic engineering services firm. 
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5/23/2022
Tim Murphy Design Associates (San Francisco, CA), an interior design studio serving the office, hospitality, restaurant, and residential markets, joined global design firm Perkins&Will (Chicago, IL) (ENR #33). 
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5/25/2022
Armstrong-Douglass Structural Engineers (Dallas, TX) joined fast-growing facilities planning and design firm Salas O’Brien (Santa Ana, CA) (ENR #78). 
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5/25/2022
TRC Companies (Windsor, CT) (ENR #17) acquired consulting and engineering firm Draper Aden Associates (Blacksburg, VA) (ENR #315). The deal marks the eighth transaction involving an ENR Top 500 seller in 2022. 
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5/26/2022
Engineering consulting firm RTM Engineering Consultants (Schaumburg, IL) (ENR #449) expanded its reach in the Midwest with the acquisition of MEP, fire protection, and technology services firm BRiC Partnership (Belleville, IL). 
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5/23/2022
Parsons Corporation (Centreville, VA) (ENR #15) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Xator Corporation (Reston, VA), a firm that offers critical infrastructure protection, counter-unmanned aircraft systems (cUAS), biometrics, and intelligence and cyber solutions. 
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5/19/2022
Sercel (Nantes, France), a firm that designs and manufactures high-tech solutions for subsurface exploration, acquired Geocomp Corporation (Acton, MA), a geotechnical risk management and infrastructure monitoring services firm. 
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Global Transactions

5/24/2022
One of the AE industry’s most prolific buyers, J.S. Held (Jericho, NY), acquired GPW Group (London, UK), a global disputes and investigations, asset tracing, sovereign debt advisory, business intelligence, and political risk services firm. 
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5/19/2022
CIMA+ (Laval, Canada), an infrastructure, transportation, energy, and project management firm, acquired EDIOM (Mississauga, Canada), an engineering, PM/CM, and testing services firm. 
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5/24/2022
Product design and innovation agency Design Partners (Wicklow, Ireland) joined innovation, transformation, and technology firm PA Consulting (London, UK). PA Consulting itself was acquired by Jacobs (ENR #1) in 2021. 
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5/24/2022
Technical advisory, risk management, and quality assurance firm PI Berlin (Berlin, Germany) joined Kiwa (Rijswijk, The Netherlands), an assurance, testing, inspection, certification, training, and data services firm. 
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5/23/2022
Global spatial data technology company Pupil (London, UK) acquired surveying firm AUS-SURV MIDDLE EAST (Dubai, UAE). 
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5/25/2022
Architecture and engineering firms Chandler Architecture (Charlottetown, Canada) and Coles Associates (Charlottetown, Canada) merged. 
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