Weekly merger, acquisition, deal update: August 16

This week Morrissey Goodale reported five deals in the U.S. and two international deals involving companies from Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom.

By Morrissey Goodale August 16, 2019

This week Morrissey Goodale reported five deals in the U.S. and two international deals involving companies from Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom.

8/13/2019
Boxwood Merger Corp. (Santa Monica, CA), a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, and Atlas Technical Consultants(Austin, TX), a provider of professional testing, inspection, engineering, and consulting services, have entered into a definitive agreement whereby Atlas will become a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Boxwood.  Link to details
8/13/2019
Watkins Associated Industries (Atlanta, GA) acquired NOVA Engineering and Environmental (Kennesaw, GA) (ENR #318), an environmental consulting, geotechnical engineering, and construction materials testing firm.  Link to details
8/12/2019
Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood (Montgomery, AL) (ENR #218) and Bay Design Associates Architects (BDA) (Pensacola, FL) have joined forces. BDA specializes in the design of educational, healthcare, commercial, and office facilities.  Link to details
8/14/2019
ENR’s #47 construction management-for-fee firm, Anser Advisory(Orlando, FL), acquired Inline Management (Golden, CO), a construction management and owner’s representative firm specializing in school construction and capital improvement projects along the Colorado Front Range.  Link to details
8/9/2019
Architecture firm M2 Design Services (Brentwood, TN) merged with A2H (Lakeland, TN), a planning and design firm that provides architectural, engineering, landscape architecture, planning, and project management services.  Link to details
8/12/2019
ENR’s #19 ranked international design firm, Sweco (Stockholm, Sweden), acquired the rail infrastructure engineering and consulting services business from NRC Group (Helsinki, Finland). The acquisition brings 320 new railway design experts to Sweco.  Link to details
8/13/2019
M Group Services (Stevenage, UK) acquired KH Engineering Services (Sidcup, UK), a provider of mechanical and electrical engineering solutions to the rail and wider transport sectors.  Link to details