Weekly merger and acquisition update: July 30, 2021

This week Morrissey Goodale reported seven U.S. deals and six international deals involving companies from the U.S., United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Ireland.

M&A Transactions

7/29/2021

Fast-growing Universal Engineering Sciences (UES) (Orlando, FL) (ENR #85) announced that BDT Capital Partners (Chicago, IL) has entered into an agreement to make a significant strategic investment in the company through an affiliated fund. BDT will become the majority shareholder of UES. Link to details

7/23/2021

Engineering, architecture, and land surveying firm Abonmarche Consultants (Benton Harbor, MI) acquired engineering and surveying firm Milanowski & Englert (Grand Haven, MI). Link to details

7/20/2021

ENR’s #17 ranked global design firm, Mott MacDonald (Croydon, UK), acquired The Kercher Group (Newark, DE), a firm specializing in transportation asset management and engineering with extensive expertise in pavement, bridge, and maintenance management. Link to details

7/21/2021

In the firm’s second deal announcement of the week, Mott MacDonald (Croydon, UK) continued its U.S. expansion through the acquisition of Pacific Groundwater Group (Seattle, WA), a hydrogeology, groundwater/surface water interactions, modeling, soil, sediment, water chemistry, and regulatory strategy services firm. Link to details >

7/28/2021

PHASE Associates (Livingston, NJ), an environmental, health, and safety (EHS) services provider, acquired the assets of Atlantic Environmental (Dover, NJ), a consulting firm with expertise in EHS solutions. Link to details

7/23/2021

Third-party testing and inspection services firm Quality Built (Fort Lauderdale, FL) announced the acquisitions of DuctTesters (Ripon, CA), a sustainability, engineering, testing, and inspection services provider, and SkyeTec Engineering (Jacksonville, FL), an MEP inspection services firm. Link to details

7/23/2021

RL Property Management (Columbus, OH), a full-service residential property management firm, acquired Criterium-Liszkay Engineers (Gahanna, OH), an engineering firm specialized in home and building inspections. Link to details

7/27/2021

Commercial real estate services firm CBRE (Los Angeles, CA) announced a definitive agreement to acquire a 60% ownership interest in and enter into a strategic partnership with ENR’s #7 ranked construction management-for-fee firm Turner & Townsend (Leeds, UK). Link to details

7/27/2021

Industry icon Tetra Tech (Pasadena, CA) (ENR #4) acquired Hoare Lea (London, UK), a consultancy provider of mechanical, electrical, and public health engineering, environmental, and sustainability services. Link to details

7/20/2021

International consulting firm AHT GROUP (Essen, Germany) announced the transfer of ownership from RSBG Infrastructure & Technologies (Essen, Germany) to ENR’s #64 ranked global design firm Dorsch Holding (Frankfurt, Germany). Link to details

7/8/2021

Oakville Enterprises Corporation (Oakville, Canada), a provider of energy and infrastructure solutions, completed the acquisition of DPM Energy (Vaughan, Canada), an engineering firm that offers electrical power grid and distribution design, installation, and utility rehabilitation services. Link to details

7/23/2021

Gateley Vinden (Bolton, UK), a multi-disciplinary quantity surveying firm, acquired the business and assets of Tozer Gallagher (Manchester, UK), a surveying and construction services firm. Link to details

7/27/2021

APEM (Manchester, UK), an environmental firm focused on freshwater and marine ecology and aerial surveys, acquired Woodrow (Ballisodare, Ireland), an environmental consulting firm that provides ecology, energy, sustainable construction, environmental education, and training. Link to details

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