Five more domestic deals; U.S. M&A up 30%

Commentary & Insight

Infrastructure engineering firm Beam, Longest & Neff‘s (ENR #353) merger with McIntosh Perry marks the 15th ENR Top 500 design firm to be sold or recapitalized this year. Thirteen of these transactions have been completed by private equity (PE) or family office-backed buyers. Hear the reasons behind the accelerated flow of PE capital into the AE industry by listening to Mick Morrissey in Engineering Influence’s most downloaded podcast episode EVER!

Domestic Transactions

8/18/2021
Architecture and engineering firm EVstudio (Denver, CO) merged with neUdesign Architecture (Meridian, ID). The combined firm will continue to operate under the EVstudio brand name. 
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8/18/2021
Bowie Gridley Architects (Washington, D.C.), a firm that specializes in master planning and design for K-12 independent school clients, joined DLR Group (Minneapolis, MN) (ENR #60). 
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7/16/2021
SJB Group (Baton Rouge, LA), a planning, surveying, site development, and subsurface utility engineering firm, announced that GWS Engineering (Baton Rouge, LA) leadership and staff have joined the firm. 
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8/15/2021
SAM Companies (Austin, TX) (ENR #98) acquired Johnson Surveying and Mapping (Jacksonville, FL), a land surveying firm that serves the utilities and land development markets and other public sector clients. 
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8/18/2021
Consulting engineering firm McIntosh Perry (Ottawa, Canada) merged with infrastructure engineering firm Beam, Longest & Neff (BLN) (Indianapolis, IN) (ENR #353). The partnership will carry on business in Canada as McIntosh Perry and continue as BLN in the U.S. 
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Global Transactions

8/13/2021
KBR (Houston, TX) entered into a definitive agreement with Babcock International Group (London, UK) to acquire Frazer-Nash Consultancy (Dorking, UK), a provider of systems engineering, assurance, and technology advisory services. 
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8/16/2021
ENR’s #20 ranked global design firm, AFRY (Stockholm, Sweden), acquired Cubiq Analytics Oy (Helsinki, Finland), a data and analytics consulting firm. 
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8/16/2021
ENR’s #64 ranked global design firm, Royal HaskoningDHV (Amersfoort, Netherlands), acquired a majority interest in Hydroinformatics Institute (H2i) (Singapore), a water information firm that applies digital solutions to the world’s climate and water-related challenges. 
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8/14/2021
Electrical engineering firm CJK Engineering (Dublin, Ireland) acquired McGrattan & Kenny (Dublin, Ireland), a provider of building services for commercial and industrial establishments. 
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