Deals in MI, PA, CA and abroad; U.S. M&A down just 1%

Commentary & Insight

U.S. design and environmental M&A continues to rebound in the fourth quarter of 2020 with deals down just 1% year-over-year. Access the Fourth Quarter U.S. M&A Symposium recordings to learn more about how industry deal-making has changed as a result of the pandemic and what lies ahead for the balance of the year and 2021.

M&A Transactions

10/29/2020
Barr Engineering Co. (Minneapolis, MN) (ENR #100) acquired King & MacGregor Environmental (Grand Rapids, MI), expanding its environmental capabilities and water resources practice in Michigan and beyond. 
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10/23/2020
Environmental consulting firm ALL4 (Kimberton, PA) further strengthened its environmental, healthy, and safety consulting expertise with the acquisition of Environmental Strategy Consultants (Philadelphia, PA). 
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10/20/2020
19six Architects (San Luis Obispo, CA), one of the oldest architectural firms in California, announced that education market specialist MADI Group (San Jose, CA) has joined its team. 
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10/27/2020
Day & Zimmermann (Philadelphia, PA) (ENR #239), a family-owned provider of construction, engineering, maintenance, staffing, and defense solutions, acquired EMC Power Canada (Kincardine, Canada). 
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10/20/2020
Private equity firm Vaaka Partners (Helsinki, Finland) acquired a majority stake in engineering and consulting firm AINS Group (Espoo, Finland). 
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10/22/2020
Transportation planning consultancy ITP (Birmingham, UK) joined ENR’s #59 ranked global design firm, Royal HaskoningDHV (Amersfoort, Netherlands). 
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10/23/2020
In the firm’s second announced deal of the week, Royal HaskoningDHV (Amersfoort, Netherlands) acquired Novius, a management consultancy specializing in strategic business transformation (Langbroek, Netherlands). 
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10/22/2020
Global environmental and advisory consultancy SLR (Aylesbury, UK) acquired planning and development consultancy KDC (Newcastle, Australia). 
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10/22/2020
Multi-disciplinary environmental, engineering, and mining consultancy Wardell Armstrong (Stoke-on-Trent, UK) acquired the business and assets of Archaeological Solutions (Bury St Edmunds, UK), an independent archaeological practice. 
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