U.S. M&A eclipses 100 deals year-to-date

Commentary & Insight

U.S. M&A continues its strong run in Q1 with nine deals announced this week. This builds on the record-breaking pace seen in Q3 and Q4 last year. Watch for our Q1 review to be published in April. Or better still, join us next Thursday for our Livestream Q1 M&A Symposium.  

M&A Transactions

3/5/2021
ENR’s #17 ranked construction management-for-fee firm, Cumming (Los Angeles, CA), acquired Inici Group (Portland, OR), a provider of owner’s representation and project management services. 
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3/16/2021
Global architecture and design firm Perkins Eastman (New York, NY) (ENR #60) merged with Pfeiffer Partners Architects (Los Angeles, CA), a planning and design firm with extensive experience in the arts, libraries, historic preservation, renovations, adaptive reuse, and interior design. 
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3/9/2021
Dunaway (Fort Worth, TX) acquired DBI Engineers (Farmersville, TX). The acquisition provides Dunaway with an additional business line, expanding the firm’s expertise in water, wastewater, and civil infrastructure design. 
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3/2/2021
ENR’s #29 ranked international design firm, COWI (Lyngby, Denmark), acquired Bittner-Shen Consulting Engineers (Portland, OR), an engineering firm that specializes in the design of major marine structures and heavy civil engineering. 
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3/15/2021
Wannemacher Jensen Architects (St. Petersburg, FL) merged with Hoffman Architects (Tarpon Springs, FL). The deal creates a new company with expertise in municipal, museum, and education projects. 
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3/16/2021
Surveying and engineering firm DGT Associates (Boston, MA) acquired Mattern & Stefon Land Surveyors (Preston, CT). The acquisition of Mattern represents DGT’s fourth office and first location outside of Massachusetts. 
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3/16/2021
Godfrey Hoffman Hodge (North Haven, CT), a surveying, engineering, and land planning firm, acquired Clarence Blair Associates (New Haven, CT), one of Connecticut’s oldest surveying and engineering companies. 
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3/16/2021
Springpoint Structural (Charlottesville, VA), a firm specializing in historic, commercial, government, and education projects, acquired structural engineering firm Fox + Associates (Richmond, VA). 
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3/17/2021
Hanson Professional Services (Springfield, IL) (ENR #172) acquired Amherst Consulting Company (Maitland, FL), a full-service engineering consulting firm focused on aviation planning, programming, design, and construction services. 
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3/7/2021
Environmental and engineering firm Geosyntec Consultants (Boca Raton, FL) (ENR #46) acquired Zoic Environmental (Sydney, Australia), a consultancy providing environmental services to clients in the Asia Pacific region. 
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3/18/2021
ENR’s #33 ranked global design firm, Egis Group (Guyancourt, France), acquired Projacs International (Dubai, UAE), the largest Pan-Arab project and construction management firm with offices in all the Middle Eastern countries. 
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3/16/2021
Global environmental and advisory consultancy SLR (Aylesbury, UK) acquired Vectos (London, UK), an independent consultancy that specializes in transport planning, infrastructure design, and flood risk. 
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3/15/2021
CIMA+ (Laval, Canada), a firm that provides a variety of engineering consulting services in the areas of buildings, infrastructure assets, transportation, and energy and resources, acquired Groupe-conseil TDA (Baie-Comeau, Canada). 
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3/16/2021
Sif Holding (Roermond, Netherlands) finalized its takeover of KCI the engineers (Schiedam, Netherlands) from Royal IHC (Kinderdijk, The Netherlands). 
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3/16/2021
Investment group Diskin Capital Partners Group (Leeds, UK) acquired John Hill Associates (Doncaster, UK), a provider of architectural, building surveying, and project management services for the construction industry. 
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