Weekly merger and acquisition update: November 5, 2021

This week Morrissey Goodale reported twelve U.S. deals and four international deals involving companies from Canada, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Ireland.

M&A Transactions

11/1/2021

Industry leader Jacobs (Dallas, TX) (ENR #1) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BlackLynx (Rockville, MD), a provider of high-performance software, to complement Jacobs’ portfolio of cyber, intelligence, and digital solutions. Link to details

11/4/2021

Mining, energy, water, environment, and technology consulting firm RESPEC (Rapid City, SD) acquired electrical engineering firm Haight & Associates (HAI) (Juneau, Alaska). The HAI/RESPEC partnership brings together a complete team of engineering disciplines to Juneau and the southeast coast of Alaska. Link to details

11/4/2021

The A/E industry’s most prolific buyer J.S. Held (Jericho, NY) acquired substantially all of the assets of Environmental Profiles (Columbia, MD), an environmental, health, and safety consulting firm with offices in Maryland and North Carolina. Link to details

11/4/2021

ENR’s #44 ranked environmental firm, Montrose Environmental Group (North Little Rock, AR), acquired Horizon Water and Environment (Oakland, CA), an environmental consulting firm specializing in planning, watershed science, and environmental compliance. Link to details

11/1/2021

Multi-disciplined professional consulting and design firm H2M architects + engineers (Melville, NY) (ENR #208) acquired Dennis Noskin Architects (Tarrytown, NY), an architectural, interior design, and space planning services firm. Link to details

11/1/2021

Architecture firm Watson Tate Savory (Columbia, SC) joined architecture, planning, and interior design firm McMillan Pazdan Smith (Greenville, SC) (ENR #277), in a merger that was finalized on October 31. Link to details

11/2/2021

Private equity investment firm Blackford Capital (Grand Rapids, MI) acquired ID Collaborative (Greensboro, NC), an interior design firm that focuses on the senior living, medical office, and continuing care markets. Link to details

11/1/2021

Engineering and environmental firm Deuchler Engineering (Aurora, IL) joined environmental and engineering firm Fehr Graham (Freeport, IL), strengthening the firm’s water and wastewater, structural, environmental regulation, compliance, assessment, and remediation services. Link to details

11/2/2021

Bennett & Pless (Atlanta, GA) joined forces with Zabik Turner Engineering (Winter Garden, FL), a structural engineering firm that specializes in cold-formed steel framing, exterior facades, office buildings, hotels, and storage buildings. Link to details

11/2/2021

Divney Tung Schwalbe (White Plains, NY), a planning, civil engineering, and landscape architecture firm, and Provident Design Engineering (Hawthorne, NY), a traffic, transportation, and civil engineering firm, merged, forming DTS Provident Design Engineering (White Plains, NY). Link to details

11/2/2021

Private equity firm Evolution Capital Partners (Cleveland, OH) made a growth investment in LEW Corporation (Mine Hill, NJ), a firm that offers environmental inspection, testing, and remediation services. Link to details

10/21/2021

Ransom Consulting (Newbury, MA), an engineering and environmental firm, acquired Civalier Engineering & Surveying (Wenonah, NJ), a civil engineering and surveying services firm. Link to details

11/3/2021

ENR’s #12 ranked global design firm, Stantec (Edmonton, Canada), acquired Driven by Values (Eindhoven, Netherlands), a firm that specializes in sustainable energy generation, building design, energy infrastructure upgrades, sustainable district heating networks, and e-mobility. Link to details

11/1/2021

Architecture, interior design, and engineering firm DIALOG (Calgary, Canada) merged with NXL Architects (Toronto, Canada), a leader in the planning and designing of laboratories and complex-process facilities for science, technology, and clean industry. Link to details

10/28/2021

Venterra Group (Sheffield, UK), a firm that provides engineering, construction, and operations services to the offshore wind industry, acquired three businesses: Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (Dublin, Ireland), Osbit (Northumberland, UK), and FoundOcean (Livingston, UK). Link to details

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