Weekly merger and acquisition update: February 16, 2024

This week Morrissey Goodale reported five domestic and four global transactions from companies in the U.K., Italy and Australia

By Morrissey Goodale February 16, 2024
Courtesy: CFE Media and Technology

Domestic transactions

02/08/2024

Little (Charlotte, NC) (ENR #275), an architecture, engineering, planning, site design, and sustainability services firm, acquired Red Iron Architects (North Charleston, SC), a firm that offers architecture, programming, space planning, interior design, and construction administration services. Link to details

02/10/2024

Architecture, engineering, design, and construction administration services firm McKinley Architecture and Engineering (Wheeling, WV) merged with J.T. Sauer & Associates (Canonsburg, PA), an architecture firm focused on sports and recreation facilities. Link to details

02/12/2024

Zepnick Solutions (Green Bay, WI), a firm that provides engineering solutions and automation design for the food, paper, and consumer goods industries, joined facilities planning and design firm Salas O’Brien (Irvine, CA) (ENR #54). Link to details

02/15/2024

Geospatial and inspection solutions firm SAM Companies (Austin, TX) (ENR #88) acquired PrecisionPoint (Fishers, IN), a 3D laser scanning to Building Information Modeling (BIM) services firm. Link to details

02/15/2024

Alta Planning + Design (Portland, OR), a sustainable transportation firm and part of the Trilon Group (Denver, CO), acquired UrbanTrans North America (Atlanta, GA), a transportation planning and behavior change firm. Link to details

Global transactions

02/08/2024

Phenna Group (Nottingham, UK), a family of businesses providing testing, inspection, certification, and compliance (TICC) services, acquired MBC Group (Sydney, Australia), a building surveying services firm serving the retail, industrial, government, education, healthcare, and aged care sectors. Link to details

02/09/2024

Global environmental and advisory consultancy SLR (Aylesbury, UK) enhanced its ecology and biodiversity capabilities with the acquisition of frc environmental (Cleveland, Australia), an aquatic ecology firm specializing in freshwater, estuarine, and marine environments. Link to details

02/12/2024

In its second deal of the week, SLR (Aylesbury, UK) acquired Groundwork Plus (Milton, Australia), a geoscience, environmental science, planning, and development services firm serving the mining, power, construction materials, and waste management sectors. Link to details

02/12/2024

Ambienta (Milan, Italy), an environmental sustainability investor across private equity, public market, and private credit, acquired a majority stake in Officine Maccaferri (Bologna, Italy), an environmental engineering, civil engineering, geotechnical, and environmental construction services firm. Link to details