476 U.S. DEALS
LATEST 12 MONTHS

20%

718* GLOBAL DEALS
LATEST 12 MONTHS

21%

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

Civil engineering, surveying, planning, and environmental firm Sambatek (Minnetonka, MN) acquired Commercial Site Design (Raleigh, NC), a civil engineering and land surveying firm with a special emphasis on projects for quick-serve restaurants, fast-casual diners, and retail stores. Morrissey Goodale initiated the transaction and advised Sambatek.
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Leading Southeast consulting, planning, and engineering design services firm Thomas & Hutton (Savannah, GA) acquired Coulter Jewell Thames (Durham, NC), a consulting, engineering, land planning, landscape architecture, surveying, and construction administration services firm. Morrissey Goodale initiated the transaction and advised Thomas & Hutton. 
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Commentary & Insight

This week we see a strong industry consolidation with 15 new domestic transactions, including two featured deals in North Carolina. Overseas there were five new transactions announced in the UK, Australia, and Canada.

Domestic Transactions

10/12/2022
Transportation consulting firm TranSystems (Kansas City, MO) (ENR #77) acquired Overland, Pacific & Cutler (Long Beach, CA), a firm that offers right-of-way and related services for vital infrastructure projects. Link to details >

10/17/2022
MOREgroup (Fort Worth, TX), the new holding company brand for the family of companies formerly known as Huckabee Architects (Fort Worth, TX) (ENR #212), acquired consulting, planning, and facility design firm E4H Environments for Health Architecture (Boston, MA) (ENR #282). Link to details >

10/19/2022
ENTRUST Solutions Group (Warrenville, IL) (ENR #58) signed a definitive agreement to acquire Magellan Advisors (Denver, CO), a firm that offers turnkey fiber and broadband planning, grant development, engineering, design, deployment, and operations solutions. Link to details >

10/13/2022
Horticulture engineering and design firm urban-gro (Lafayette, CO) signed a binding letter of intent to acquire Dawson Van Orden (Houston, TX), an MEP and fire protection engineering firm. Link to details >

10/1/2022
Employee-owned consulting firm Shannon & Wilson (Seattle, WA) (ENR #238) acquired Hultgren-Tillis Engineers (Concord, CA), a geotechnical engineering firm with expertise in industrial, municipal, commercial, and civil works projects. Link to details >

10/12/2022
Control Point Associates (Warren, NJ), a land surveying, geospatial, and consulting services firm, acquired Brooks & Brooks Land Surveyors (Highland, NY), a land surveying, GIS, land planning, expert testimony, and litigation support services firm. Link to details >

10/10/2022
ENR’s #16 ranked environmental firm, ERM (London, UK), acquired Shelton Group (Knoxville, TN), a sustainability-focused marketing and communications agency focused on ESG reporting and campaign delivery. Link to details >

10/12/2022
Yellow Sub Geo (Cardiff, UK), an environmental firm specialized in climate change technology, acquired AnAqSim (Scarborough, ME), a groundwater modelling software business. Link to details >

10/19/2022
Structural engineering firm O’Donnell & Naccarato (Philadelphia, PA) acquired Douglas Wood Associates (Miami, FL), a structural engineering firm that serves the commercial, healthcare, education, and governmental markets. Link to details >

10/18/2022
EcoAnalysts (Moscow, ID), an ecological field sampling, laboratory, and consulting services firm, acquired Hydrosphere Research Environmental Services (Alachua, FL), a firm focused on aquatic ecotoxicity testing services. Link to details >

10/18/2022 
SAM Companies (Austin, TX) (ENR #103) acquired Echezabal & Associates (Tampa, FL), a professional land surveying, mapping, and subsurface utility engineering services firm. Link to details >

10/13/2022
GAI Consultants (Homestead, PA) (ENR #145) and Comvest Partners (West Palm Beach, FL) have entered into an agreement for Comvest to make a strategic private equity investment in GAI. GAI will remain a stand-alone business within Comvest’s portfolio. Link to details >

10/19/2022 
Pioneering AEG and strategic consulting firm Woolpert (Dayton, OH) (ENR #51) acquired Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects (Chicago, IL) (ENR #395), a full-service architecture firm that specializes in mission critical and technically challenging projects. Link to details >

Global Transactions

10/13/2022
Global environmental and advisory consultancy SLR (Aylesbury, UK) acquired RCS Global Group (London, UK), a firm specialized in data driven ESG performance, responsible sourcing, and responsible mining assurance and advisory. Link to details >

10/12/2022
Hollywood Civil Engineering (Willenhall, UK), a civil and mechanical engineering firm, joined environmental consulting and services firm RSK Group (Helsby, UK). Link to details >

10/19/2022
Geotechnical firm CMW Geosciences (Wembley, Australia) joined Kiwa (Rijswijk, The Netherlands), an assurance, testing, inspection, certification, training, and data services firm. Link to details >

10/19/2022
LRI Engineering (Toronto, Canada), a fire protection engineering and building code consulting firm, merged with forensic engineering specialist CEP Forensic (Laval, Canada). Link to details >

10/17/2022
TTM Consulting (Brisbane, Australia), an acoustic, data, traffic and waste consulting services firm, acquired traffic and transport planning consultancy MRCagney (Milton, Australia). Link to details >

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