473 U.S. DEALS
LATEST 12 MONTHS

4%

765* GLOBAL DEALS
LATEST 12 MONTHS

13%

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

6/12/2025 
Private investment firm Clarion Capital Partners (New York, NY) invested in infrastructure management firm, International Cybernetics Company (ICC) (Largo, FL). Morrissey Goodale initiated the transaction and advised ICC.
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6/5/2025 
Employee-owned industry leader LJA Engineering (Houston, TX) (ENR #52), and one of our Ten Movers and Shakers to Watch in 2025, acquired civil engineering firm David Plummer & Associates (Coral Gables, FL). Morrissey Goodale initiated the transaction and advised David Plummer & Associates.
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Commentary & Insight

We are wrapping up here at our Western States M&A and Business Symposium. We want to thank everyone who joined us! If you were unable to make it to Las Vegas this week, mark your calendar to join us at our next event, the Texas and the South M&A and Business Symposium coming this October at the spectacular Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston. You can sign up here to be in the know as things develop!

Domestic Transactions

6/5/2025
Jumper Carter Sease (West Columbia, SC), an architecture firm that serves the healthcare, civic, and culture sectors, joined McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture (Spartanburg, SC) (ENR #242). Link to details >

6/11/2025
The U.S. Design Collective team of CBRE Group (Dallas, TX) joined Ware Malcomb (Irvine, CA) (ENR #156), a full-service design firm that provides architecture, planning, interior design, civil engineering, branding, and building measurement services. Link to details >

6/4/2025
Spiezle Architectural Group (Hamilton, NJ) acquired Peak Systems Engineering (Cary, NC), a mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection firm. Link to details >

6/11/2025
Grace Design Studios (Baton Rouge, LA), an architecture, engineering, and consulting firm, acquired CRGA Design (Baltimore, MD), an architecture, interior design, and planning firm that specializes in healthcare facility design. Link to details >

6/6/2025
Architectural and design firm Populous (Kansas City, MO) (ENR #57) acquired Fentress Architects (Denver, CO) (ENR #290), an architecture firm known for its aviation projects and prominent public buildings. Link to details >

6/5/2025
The Collaborative (Toledo, OH), an architecture, planning, and design firm that serves the higher education, civic, healthcare, corporate, and nonprofit sectors, acquired Acock Associates Architects (Columbus, OH). Link to details >

Global Transactions

6/4/2025
Multi-disciplinary consulting firm KEO International Consultants (Dubai, UAE) acquired Meehan Green (Dublin, Ireland), a green building consultancy. Link to details >

6/22/2025
ENR’s #4 ranked global design firm, WSP (Montreal, Canada), acquired Ricardo plc (Shoreham-By-Sea, UK), a global strategic and engineering consultancy firm. Link to details >

6/10/2025
Architecture firms Mode Architects (Stoke-on-Trent, UK) and Byatt Oliver (Staffordshire, UK) joined forces to create a new practice, inc. Architects (Stoke-on-Trent, UK). Link to details >

6/6/2025
Environmental consulting and services firm RSK Group (Helsby, UK) acquired AJ Engineering and Northern Engineering & Welding Company (Fort William, UK), a firm that offers engineering services including complex steel fabrication, computer numerical control (CNC) machining, cladding, and mechanical engineering. Link to details >

6/5/2025
Colliers International (Toronto, Canada) announced that its engineering platform Englobe Corporation (Quebec, Canada) finalized an agreement to acquire Cambium (Peterborough, Canada), a multi-service engineering consulting firm. Link to details >

6/5/2025
Premier Technical Services Group (Castleford, UK) acquired UK Safety Management (Colton, UK), an electrical compliance and safety testing platform. Link to details >

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