Weekly merger and acquisition update: January 17, 2025

This week Morrissey Goodale reported thirteen domestic and two global transactions in India and Canada.

By Morrissey Goodale January 17, 2025
This week Morrissey Goodale reported thirteen domestic and two global transactions in India and Canada.

Domestic Transactions

01/07/2025

EA and environmental firm Fishbeck (Grand Rapids, MI) (ENR #199) acquired Align CEC (Greencastle, IN), a civil engineering firm with experience in transportation, aviation, and municipal projects. Link to details

01/8/2025

Alpine Intel (Charlotte, NC), an insurance solutions firm, acquired BSC Forensics (Katy, TX), a forensics firm specializing in structural, electrical, mechanical, and fire investigations. Link to details

01/09/2025

Fast-growing industry leader Verdantas (Tampa, FL) (ENR #113) acquired M-H-M (Marysville, CA), a firm with expertise in water supply and storage, distribution, irrigation, water master planning, flood control, storm drainage, land development, and surveying. Link to details

01/09/2025

Civil engineering and land surveying firm Benchmark Engineering (Mountain Iron, MN) and engineering firm FOCUS Engineering (Saint Paul, MN) joined Bolton & Menk (Mankato, MN) (ENR #132). Link to details

01/13/2025

Eberly & Associates (Atlanta, GA), a land planning, civil engineering, and landscape architecture services firm, joined civil engineering, environmental, and surveying services firm Pape-Dawson Engineers (San Antonio, TX) (ENR #93). Link to details

01/13/2025

ENR’s #23 ranked environmental firm, ERM (London, UK), agreed to acquire the Environmental Division of NewFields Companies (Atlanta, GA), expanding ERM’s existing technical offerings in remediation and environmental services. Link to details

01/13/2024

ArborMetrics (Hendersonville, NC) and ECI Environmental Consultants (Wake Forest, NC) joined forces. The new company, which will operate as ArborMetrics, offers environmental oversight and management, PM, field services, construction design, asset and vegetation management, civil construction, and solar farm and data center environmental services. Link to details

01/14/2025

Design firm CPL (Fairport, NY) (ENR #278) broadened its geographic reach into Virginia with the addition of Commonwealth Architects (Richmond, VA), an architecture and interior design firm that offers tenant services, master planning, and historic preservation services. Link to details

01/14/2025

In its second deal of the week, Verdantas (Tampa, FL) (ENR #113) acquired Civil West Engineering Services (Coos Bay, OR), an engineering firm focused on water, wastewater, and stormwater engineering services. Link to details

01/14/2025

MBF Audiovisual & Acoustical Consulting (Lake Stevens, WA), a firm specializing in audio, video, control, and acoustical services, joined multi-disciplined engineering firm Coffman Engineers (Seattle, WA) (ENR #157) through an asset purchase agreement. Link to details

01/14/2024

Landscape architecture firm JCLA (Sturbridge, MA) joined TEC (Lawerance, MA), a transportation, civil, site, structural, traffic, landscape architecture, asset advisory, and construction administration services firm. Link to details

01/15/2025

Lerch Bates (Englewood, CO), a technical consulting firm specialized in the built environment, acquired Building Enclosure Consultants and Scientists (Baltimore, MD), a firm that offers building enclosure consulting services. Link to details

01/15/2025

Schaefer Architecture (Wichita, KS) acquired Krehbiel Architecture (Wichita, KS). This partnership builds on a year of collaboration on several key projects between the two firms. Link to details

Global Transactions

01/16/2025

One of the AE industry’s most prolific buyers, J.S. Held (Jericho, NY), acquired Technorm (Montreal, Canada), a forensic, building safety, and compliance services firm. Link to details

01/16/2025

Engineering firm DMR Hydroengineering & Infrastructures (Faridabad, India) acquired an additional 60% stake in sustainable engineering firm DM Consulting Engineers (Faridabad, India), making it a subsidiary of the company. Link to details

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