Weekly merger and acquisition update: May 21, 2021

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

By Morrissey Goodale May 21, 2021

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

M&A Transactions

5/17/2021

Industry leader NV5 (Hollywood, FL) (ENR #27) acquired PES Environmental (Novato, CA), a provider of environmental site assessment, water resources and stormwater management, permitting and compliance, industrial hygiene, and litigation support services. Link to details

5/17/2021

Real estate development firm Green Street (Clayton, MO) announced its intent to acquire interior design firm O’Toole Design Associates (Creve Coeur, MO). The announcement comes seven months after Green Street acquired HDA Architects (Chesterfield, MO), one of St. Louis’ largest architecture firms. Link to details

5/17/2021

Wightman (Benton Harbor, MI), a land surveying, civil engineering, and architecture firm, acquired Reynolds Land Surveying (Hastings, MI). Link to details

5/14/2021

Engineering, land surveying, planning, and environmental firm QK (Visalia, CA) entered into an agreement to acquire Zumwalt-Hansen Associates (Hanford, CA), a civil engineering, land surveying, and planning firm. Link to details

5/19/2021

Rimkus Consulting Group (Houston, TX), a forensic consulting and technical services provider, acquired M & E Engineering Consultants (Vaughan, Canada), a mechanical, electrical, and life safety consulting firm. Link to details

5/16/2021

Global investment firm KKR (New York, NY) signed an agreement to acquire a majority position in ENR’s #14 ranked environmental firm ERM (London, UK). KKR will acquire its position in the company from OMERS Private Equity (Toronto, Canada) and Alberta Investment Management Corporation (Edmonton, Canada). Link to details

5/17/2021

ENR’s #18 ranked global design firm, AFRY (Stockholm, Sweden), acquired Pinja Industry Oy (Jyväskylä, Finland), a company focusing on engineering, automation, machine vision, testing, and quality assurance services. Link to details

5/19/2021

Seero Engineering Consulting (Doha, Qatar), a provider of design, engineering, and construction management services, signed an agreement to acquire Apex Engineering (Vancouver, Canada), a provider of transportation planning and business case development services to public agencies. Link to details