International activity leads an active week for M&A

Commentary & Insight

This week marked a globally active period for M&A, with 12 transactions across U.S. and international markets. Domestically, five deals took place in WA, TX, FL, CA, and VA, while international activity led the week with seven transactions across Sweden, Australia, Canada, Spain, and the UK. 

Domestic Transactions

6/1/2026 
AKS Engineering & Forestry (Tualatin, OR), an engineering, surveying, environmental, forestry, and landscape architecture firm and one of our Ten Movers and Shakers to Watch in 2026, entered a strategic partnership with Lanktree Land Surveying (Kent, WA), a land surveying firm with expertise in boundary, topographic, subdivision, construction, and land title surveying. Link to details > 

6/3/2026 
S. Kanetzky Engineering (Austin, TX), an electrical and power engineering firm with experience in water and wastewater infrastructure, instrumentation and control systems, and SCADA, joined design and professional services firm WGI (West Palm Beach, FL) (ENR #210). Link to details > 

6/4/2026 
Certerra (Rancho Cucamonga, CA) (ENR #96), a technology-enabled testing, inspection, and certification firm serving critical infrastructure, acquired Paramount Consulting & Engineering (Miami, FL), a firm specializing in building envelope consulting, inspection, and specialized testing services. Link to details > 

6/4/2026 
Utility infrastructure services platform Guardian Infrastructure Services (New York, NY) acquired E2 Consulting Engineers (Emeryville, CA), a firm specializing in engineering, PM, inspection, and field support services for electric and gas utilities. Link to details > 

6/4/2026 
Champlin | EOP (Cincinnati, OH) (ENR #326), an architecture, planning, interior design, historic preservation, and experiential graphic design firm, acquired architecture and interior design firm 510 Architects (Richmond, VA). Link to details > 

Global Transactions

5/28/2026 
Uniwater (Hisings Kärra, Sweden), a water and wastewater services platform, entered into an agreement to acquire Water Engineering AB (Mälardalen, Sweden), a specialist engineering firm offering project planning, PM, technical investigations, and contract inspections for water and wastewater facilities. Link to details > 

6/1/2026  
Beca (Auckland, New Zealand), an advisory, design, and engineering firm, acquired CQG Consulting (Rockhampton, Australia), an environmental and planning specialist offering environmental assessments, ecology, First Nations and stakeholder engagement, and planning and advisory services. Link to details > 

6/2/2026 
GLJ (Calgary, Canada), an energy firm with expertise in geoscience engineering, acquired Petrel Robertson Consulting (Calgary, Canada), a geoscience and engineering firm specializing in subsurface projects with internationally recognized subsurface expertise. Link to details > 

6/5/2026 
Phenna Group (London, United Kingdom), a testing, inspection, certification, and compliance firm, acquired Begalvi (Valencia, Spain), a compliance management and SaaS firm serving the homeowners associations market. Link to details > 

6/9/2026  
ENR’s #15 ranked global design firm, Sweco (Stockholm, Sweden), entered into an agreement to acquire Sitowise Sverige AB (Stockholm, Sweden), a firm delivering services in structural engineering, building service systems, PM, and transportation infrastructure. Link to details > 

6/11/2026 
Adler & Allan (Harrogate, UK), an environmental risk reduction services firm, acquired Vertase (Bristol, UK), a firm that offers contaminated land remediation services to the industrial, commercial, residential, utility, and petrochemical sectors. Link to details > 

6/11/2026   
MTE Consultants (Kitchener, Canada), a civil, structural, environmental, building engineering, geoscience, and surveying firm, acquired Fishburn Sheridan & Associates (Ottawa, Canada), an engineering firm specializing in building science and structural engineering services. Link to details >