Weekly merger and acquisition update: December 13, 2024

This week Morrissey Goodale reported seven domestic and eight global transactions in Canada, the U.K. and Australia.

Domestic Transactions

12/03/2024

Employee-owned firm LJA Engineering (Houston, TX) (ENR #67) acquired utility construction firm Quest Utility Construction (San Antonio, TX). Link to details

12/04/2024

Environmental and construction firm Surf to Snow Environmental Resource Management (San Ramon, CA) acquired a majority portion of the construction and landscape design firm Planned Environments (Concord, CA). Link to details

12/06/2024

Milrose Consultants (New York, NY), a building code compliance, fulfillment, and consulting firm, acquired Construction Specifications (Morganville, NJ), a firm specializing in architectural specification writing and consulting. Link to details

12/09/2024

Morell Engineering (Athens, AL), a civil engineering firm offering aviation engineering, subdivision design, transportation design, surveying, and geotechnical services, acquired Civil Group (Muscle Shoals, AL), an engineering and surveying landscape firm. Link to details

12/09/2024

Technology, conformity assessment, and consulting solutions firm and one of our Nine Movers and Shakers to Watch in 2024, NV5 (Hollywood, FL) (ENR #24), acquired Southport Engineering Associates (Ridgefield, CT), an energy efficiency, engineering design, and owner representation services firm. Link to details

12/10/2024

SHM Architects (Dallas, TX), a boutique residential architecture firm, partnered with architecture firm Cowart Group (Savannah, GA) to form The SHM Cowart Studio (Savannah, GA). Link to details

12/10/2024

Civil engineering firm Remington & Vernick Engineers (Cherry Hill, NJ) (ENR #243) acquired selected Pennsylvania assets of KMJ Consulting (Ardmore, PA), a transportation engineering firm. Link to details

Global Transactions

12/09/2024

Inspections and certifications firm Industrial Inspection & Analysis (Alpharetta, GA) acquired Kova Engineering (Vancouver, Canada), a firm that offers engineering, inspection, and certification services of cranes and lift equipment. Link to details

12/09/2024

Civil and structural engineering firm EDGE Consulting Engineers (Brisbane, Australia) acquired TRP Consulting (Manchester, UK), a civil, structural, and environmental engineering firm serving the industrial, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, and sports sectors. Link to details

12/10/2024

Infrastructure, transportation, energy, and PM firm CIMA+ (Laval, Canada) acquired Recollective Consulting (Vancouver, Canada), a firm that specializes in sustainable site-management strategies, green-building guidelines and policy development, LEED, zero-carbon building design, and integrated green-building design. Link to details

12/10/2024

Environmental consulting and services firm RSK Group (Helsby, UK) acquired Edge Environment (Sydney, Australia), a firm that provides environmental, social, and governance (ESG), leadership and transformation, decarbonization, life cycle and supply chain assessments, and mandatory disclosure and reporting. Link to details

12/10/2024

Multidisciplinary environmental and advisory consulting firm EMM Consulting (Sydney, Australia) received an investment from Quadrant Private Equity (Sydney, Australia). Link to details

12/10/2024

Cadherent (Aberdeen, UK), a firm with expertise in engineering design, 3D animation, and engineering surveys, acquired Touch3D (Aberdeen, UK), a firm that provides architectural CGI and visualizations. Link to details

12/11/2024

Architecture firm LJC Architectural Design (Redcar, UK) acquired Close, Granger, Gray & Wilkin (CGG&W) (Guisborough, UK), a firm that offers structural engineering, civil engineering, building engineering, project management, and architecture services. Link to details

12/12/2024

In its second deal of the week, RSK Group (Helsby, UK) announced that the team from Caledonian Conservation (Stirling, UK) joined the group, further strengthening its ecological service offering. Link to details