475 U.S. DEALS
LATEST 12 MONTHS

5%

768* GLOBAL DEALS
LATEST 12 MONTHS

14%

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

6/25/2025
Structural engineering firm AG&E (Dallas, TX) announced a strategic investment from LiftOut Capital (Denver, CO). This partnership positions AG&E to expand its footprint and strengthen its service offerings as the largest structural engineering firm serving the data center market in North America. Morrissey Goodale initiated the transaction and advised AG&E. Learn more >  

6/24/2025 
Full-service engineering, design, consulting, and PM/CM firm CHA (Albany, NY) (ENR #63) expanded in the West with the acquisition of FALCON Engineering Services (Temecula, CA), a firm that specializes in CM and engineering services for a wide range of civil engineering projects. Morrissey Goodale initiated the transaction and advised CHA.
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Commentary & Insight

This week, we report on eight new domestic transactions, including two deals in Texas. Registration for this year’s Texas and the South M&A and Business Symposium is now open. Reserve your place and join over 200 AE and environmental consulting industry executives and investors at the beautiful five-star Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston. 

Domestic Transactions

6/25/2025 
Court Square Capital Partners (New York, NY) acquired a majority stake in DCCM (Houston, TX) (ENR #116), a national provider of design, consulting, and construction management services. Link to details >

6/26/2025 
Industry leader and one of our 10 Movers and Shakers to Watch in 2025, Salas O’Brien (Irvine, CA) (ENR #31) merged with BWK Engineering (Akron, OH), an MEP, fire protection, and technology design firm serving the architectural, industrial, institutional, and commercial sectors. Link to details >

6/24/2025 
ENR’s #70 ranked environmental firm and recipient of the 2024 M&A Best Practices Award, Trinity Consultants (Dallas, TX), acquired Bridgewater Group (Tigard, OR), an environmental firm with expertise in multimedia environmental auditing, permitting, and compliance. Link to details >

6/24/2025 
Engineering and consulting firm Universal Engineering Sciences (UES) (Orlando, FL) (ENR #40) acquired Geohazards (Gainesville, FL), a geology and engineering firm that offers forensic engineering, geology and geophysics, geotechnical engineering, geotechnical construction inspection, erosion control, and litigation support. Link to details >

6/12/2025 
Granger Water Specialties (Hanford, CA), a firm that provides management services for water and wastewater treatment plants, joined Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group (Clovis, CA), a civil and agricultural engineering, environmental, land use planning, hydrogeology, geology, surveying, and CM services firm. Link to details >

6/19/2025 
ENR’s #160 ranked environmental firm, Integral Consulting (Boulder, CO), an environmental, scientific, and engineering firm, enhanced its capabilities in site remediation, regulatory compliance, and environmental due diligence across the Mid-Atlantic region with the acquisition of PennJersey Environmental Consulting (Milford, NJ). Link to details >

Global Transactions

6/24/2025 
Building Monitoring Services (BMS) (Fareham, UK), a firm that offers safety, monitoring, and compliance services, joined Celnor Group (London, UK), a group of companies that offer services in the testing, inspection, certification, and compliance (TICC) arena. Link to details >

6/24/2025 
In its second deal of the week, Celnor Group (London, UK) merged with Airey Miller Group (Sevenoaks, UK), a property and construction consulting group serving public and private sector developers and housebuilders. Link to details >

6/24/2025 
In its third deal of the week, Celnor Group (London, UK) merged with Scaled Solutions (Livingston, UK), a laboratory testing firm that provides support production chemistry, flow assurance, scale, and corrosion control services to the oil, gas, and decarbonization sectors. Link to details >

6/24/2025 
Nordic Inspekt Group AB (Linköping, Sweden), a subsidiary of ININ Group AS (Oslo, Norway), agreed to the principal terms of an agreement to acquire non-destructive testing and inspection companies NDT Inspection & Consulting Oy and Ropetech Oy (Vantaa, Finland). Link to details >

6/20/2025 
AF Gruppen (Oslo, Norway) expanded in the electrical infrastructure sector and entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire 80 percent of the shares of engineering firm Eviny Solutions (Bergen, Norway). Link to details >

6/18/2025 
STRABAG SE (Vienna, Austria), a technology group for construction services, signed and finalized a purchase agreement to acquire WTE Wassertechnik GmbH (Essen, Germany), a water management firm. Link to details >

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