New domestic deals reported in LA, TX, CO, NJ, and PA; Active week for global deals

Commentary & Insight

This week sees six new deals announced around the country in LA, TX, CO, NJ, and PA. Additionally, eight global deals were reported in Australia, the UK, Portugal, Finland, and Canada.

Domestic Transactions

7/11/2024 
Ampirical (Covington, LA), a provider of engineering services and software for the power end market, received a growth investment from SkyKnight Capital (San Francisco, CA). Link to details > 

7/8/2024 
ENR’s #40 ranked environmental firm, Montrose Environmental Group (North Little Rock, AR), acquired Spirit Environmental (Houston, TX), a firm that provides air permitting and compliance services to the energy and petrochemical industries. Link to details > 

7/9/2024 
LRE Water (Denver, CO), an expert in water resource consulting and environmental management, acquired Timberline Aquatics (Fort Collins, CO), a firm that offers technical evaluation and characterization of aquatic ecosystems through the sampling, sorting, identification, and analysis of benthic macroinvertebrates. Link to details > 

7/11/2024 
CME Associates (Parlin, NJ), an environmental, geotechnical, engineering, surveying, and planning firm and part of Trilon Group (Denver, CO), acquired Churchill Consulting Engineering (Berlin, NJ), an engineering firm providing public and private sector clients with planning, design, surveying, permitting, and CM services. Link to details >

7/9/2024 
Science and technology services firm Pace® (Minneapolis, MN) acquired Environmental Services Laboratories (Indiana, PA), an environmental testing laboratory that provides analytical testing, consulting, and field sampling services. Link to details > 

7/8/2024 
B. Riley Financial (Los Angeles, CA) acquired the assets of Interface Consulting International (Houston, TX), an engineering and construction management services firm. 
Link to details > 

Global Transactions

7/9/2024 
Almar Water Solutions (Madrid, Spain), a firm that focuses on developing and managing water infrastructure and services, secured a 70% acquisition of Aqualyng (Brisbane, Australia), a firm that specializes in Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) and build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects. Link to details > 

7/8/2024 
Concept Environmental Solutions (Airdrie, UK), a water testing, Legionella risk management, fire damper safety, indoor air quality testing, and ventilation hygiene services firm, joined Celnor Group (Reading, UK), a group of companies that offer services in the testing, inspection, certification, and compliance (TICC) arena. Link to details > 

7/10/2024 
In its second deal of the week, Celnor Group (Reading, UK) acquired materials testing firm Construction Materials Testing (CMT) (Airdrie, UK). Link to details > 

7/8/2024 
Saur Group (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France), through its water management subsidiary Aquapor (Lisbon, Portugal), acquired environmental engineering firm CTGA (Coimbra, Portugal) and environmental and industrial management firm Enviman (Coimbra, Portugal). Link to details > 

7/4/2024 
Architecture firm Corstorphine & Wright (Warwick, UK) merged with architectural practice BrightSPACE Architects (Fordingbridge, UK). Link to details > 

7/4/2024 
Solwers (Espoo, Finland), a group of multidisciplinary companies specializing in planning and design, and its subsidiary Davidsson Tarkela Architects Oy (Helsinki, Finland), signed an agreement to acquire the entire share capital of Siren Architects (Helsinki, Finland). Link to details > 

7/9/2024 
GUNN Consultants (Vancouver, Canada), an engineering consulting firm specializing in elevators, escalators, moving walks, and other methods of vertical transportation, joined elevator and escalator consulting firm VDA (East Hanover, NJ). Link to details > 

7/9/2024 
Bluwatr (Toronto, Canada), a strategic growth platform for architecture and engineering firms, entered a strategic partnership with WATT Consulting Group (Calgary, Canada) by acquiring a majority interest in the firm. Link to details >