M&A Update: Featured deal in ID; Two deals in the Southeast 

Commentary & Insight

This week we report on two new deals in the fast-consolidating Southeast, in Georgia and South Carolina. Network with over 200 industry executives and investors in Miami at the Southeast M&A and Business Symposium this March. Reserve your place now before registration closes.

Domestic Transactions

2/15/2024
Alta Planning + Design (Portland, OR), a sustainable transportation firm and part of the Trilon Group (Denver, CO), acquired UrbanTrans North America (Atlanta, GA), a transportation planning and behavior change firm. Link to details >

2/8/2024
Little (Charlotte, NC) (ENR #275), an architecture, engineering, planning, site design, and sustainability services firm, acquired Red Iron Architects (North Charleston, SC), a firm that offers architecture, programming, space planning, interior design, and construction administration services. Link to details >

2/15/2024
Geospatial and inspection solutions firm SAM Companies (Austin, TX) (ENR #88) acquired PrecisionPoint (Fishers, IN), a 3D laser scanning to Building Information Modeling (BIM) services firm. Link to details >

2/12/2024
Zepnick Solutions (Green Bay, WI), a firm that provides engineering solutions and automation design for the food, paper, and consumer goods industries, joined facilities planning and design firm Salas O’Brien (Irvine, CA) (ENR #54). Link to details >

2/10/2024
Architecture, engineering, design, and construction administration services firm McKinley Architecture and Engineering (Wheeling, WV) merged with J.T. Sauer & Associates (Canonsburg, PA), an architecture firm focused on sports and recreation facilities. Link to details >

Global Transactions

2/9/2024
Global environmental and advisory consultancy SLR (Aylesbury, UK) enhanced its ecology and biodiversity capabilities with the acquisition of frc environmental (Cleveland, Australia), an aquatic ecology firm specializing in freshwater, estuarine, and marine environments. Link to details >

2/12/2024
In its second deal of the week, SLR (Aylesbury, UK) acquired Groundwork Plus (Milton, Australia), a geoscience, environmental science, planning, and development services firm serving the mining, power, construction materials, and waste management sectors. Link to details >

2/12/2024
Ambienta (Milan, Italy), an environmental sustainability investor across private equity, public market, and private credit, acquired a majority stake in Officine Maccaferri (Bologna, Italy), an environmental engineering, civil engineering, geotechnical, and environmental construction services firm. Link to details >

2/8/2024
Phenna Group (Nottingham, UK), a family of businesses providing testing, inspection, certification, and compliance (TICC) services, acquired MBC Group (Sydney, Australia), a building surveying services firm serving the retail, industrial, government, education, healthcare, and aged care sectors. Link to details >