438 U.S. DEALS
LATEST 12 MONTHS

9%

679* GLOBAL DEALS
LATEST 12 MONTHS

3%

*Including U.S. deals    
Percentages represent latest twelve months year-over-year increase or decrease in deal activity.

3/31/2023
Earth resource engineering and consulting firm (and Morrissey Goodale client) ARM Group (Hershey, PA) (ENR #350) acquired Brickhouse Environmental (West Chester, PA), a full-service environmental consulting and engineering firm. Morrissey Goodale initiated the transaction and advised ARM Group.
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This week sees thirteen additional domestic deals announced in NV, MD, NY, WI, VA, FL, GA, IL, CA, and DC. Overseas we report eight new transactions.

Domestic Transactions

4/5/2023
Morrissey Goodale client The HFW Companies (St. Louis, MO) formed a strategic growth partnership with Taney Engineering (Las Vegas, NV), a civil engineering and land surveying firm. Link to details >

4/3/2023
Bowman Consulting Group (Reston, VA) (ENR #118) acquired Richter & Associates (Rockville, MD), a professional services firm that focuses on dry utility infrastructure engineering. Link to details >

4/5/2023
Cameron Engineering & Associates (Woodbury, NY), a full-service engineering and planning firm, joined IMEG Corp. (Rock Island, IL) (ENR #71). Link to details >

4/3/2023
Geospatial and inspection solutions firm, SAM Companies (Austin, TX) (ENR #103), acquired Carolina Surveying Services (Lexington, SC), a professional geomatics solutions company. Link to details >

4/5/2023
Civil engineering firms Hurt & Proffitt (Lynchburg, VA) and Reynolds-Clark Development (Gretna, VA) have combined the two companies. Reynolds-Clark will do business under the Hurt & Proffitt brand. Link to details >

4/5/2023
Architecture firm Grace Hebert Curtis (Baton Rouge, LA) acquired Bullock Tice Associates (Pensacola, FL), a full-service architecture and design firm. Link to details >

4/4/2023
The Kleingers Group (West Chester, OH), a surveying, engineering, and design firm, acquired Leftcoast Surveyors (St. Petersburg, FL). Link to details >

4/3/2023
Multi-disciplinary engineering firm W&A Engineering (Athens, GA) acquired HensonFoley (Huntersville, NC), a landscape architecture and civil engineering firm. Link to details >

4/3/2023
Data collection company TwiG Technologies (Wheaton, IL) acquired Ruettiger, Tonelli & Associates (Sherwood, IL), an engineering, design, and geographic information technologies firm. Link to details >

4/3/2023
Multi-disciplined consulting firm Vierbicher Associates (Reedsburg, WI) merged with Mau & Associates (Green Bay, WI), a civil engineering and land surveying firm. Link to details >

3/31/2023
AQUALIS (Durham, NC), a portfolio company of DFW Capital Partners (Teaneck, NJ), acquired Stormwater Solutions Engineering (Milwaukee, WI), a civil engineering firm that specializes in stormwater management. Link to details >

3/30/2023
Technical & Business Systems (Santa Clarita, CA), a firm that offers ambient monitoring and auditing services for both government and private clients, joined Trinity Consultants (Dallas, TX), ENR’s #79 ranked environmental firm. Link to details >

3/30/2023
Michael Graves Architecture (Princeton, NJ), a planning, architecture, and interior design firm, acquired PGN Architects (Washington, DC), an architecture firm with experience in multi-family and mixed-use design. Link to details >

Global Transactions

4/5/2023
ENR’s #6 ranked global design firm, WSP (Montreal, Canada), entered into an agreement to acquire Calibre Professional Services (North Sydney, Australia), an engineering services provider that focuses on rail, infrastructure, rehabilitation, and renewable projects supporting blue-chip mining clients. Link to details >

4/5/2023
Bouthillette Parizeau (Montreal, Canada), an engineering firm specializing in buildings for the institutional, commercial, multi-residential, and industrial markets, acquired structural engineering firm Cleland Jardine Engineering (Ottawa, Canada). Link to details >

4/5/2023
Greensleet (Casablanca, Morocco) acquired RengyTech (Casablanca, Morocco), a sustainable energy engineering firm. Link to details >

4/3/2023
CIMA+ (Laval, Canada) acquired MidSea Engineering (Vancouver, Canada), an engineering consulting firm that specializes in water resources, hydropower, marine infrastructure, and industrial engineering. Link to details >

4/3/2023
Civil engineering, planning, surveying, and architecture firm Aplin Martin (Surrey, Canada) acquired architecture firm Studio Intersekt (Burlington, Canada). Link to details >

4/2/2023
Building surveying firm AS Jacobs Property Consultancy (Auckland, New Zealand) acquired CeaseFire (Auckland, New Zealand), a passive fire specialist firm that provides inspection and design services. Link to details >

3/31/2023
Origin Enterprises (Dublin, Ireland) acquired Neo Environmental (Glasgow, UK), an environmental firm that primarily serves the energy and infrastructure sectors. Link to details >

3/28/2023
Environmental consulting and services firm RSK Group (Helsby, UK) acquired Hawkins Electrical (Skegness, UK), a firm that offers electrical services, product supply and manufacturing, inspection and maintenance, and testing. Link to details >

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