Weekly merger and acquisition update: September 9, 2022

This week Morrissey Goodale reported eight U.S. deals and four international deals involving companies from the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada.

M&A Transactions

9/7/2022
Verdantas (Dublin, OH) (ENR #195), an environmental, engineering, and technical consulting company, acquired JM Sorge (Somerville, NJ), an Environmental Assessment and Remediation (EAR) and Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) consulting services firm. Link to details

9/7/2022
In the firm’s second deal announcement of the week, Verdantas (Dublin, OH) (ENR #195) acquired Environmental Strategies & Management (Norton, MA), a firm that offers EHS consulting and engineering services. Link to details

9/1/2022
VCA Consultants (Orange, CA) merged with Enayat Snyder Smith Engineering (Denver, CO), a structural engineering firm that specializes in mixed-use, mid-rise complex structures. Link to details

9/2/2022
SAFEbuilt (Loveland, CO), a community development and community infrastructure services company, acquired TX BBG Consulting (Houston, TX), a firm that offers project support, plan review, and building code inspections. Link to details

9/6/2022
ENR’s #38 ranked environmental firm, Montrose Environmental Group (North Little Rock, AR), acquired AirKinetics (Anaheim, CA), an emissions testing services firm with expertise in compliance and regulatory testing, engineering and diagnostics testing, and ambient air monitoring. Link to details

9/1/2022
Infrastructure solutions firm MacKay Sposito (Vancouver, WA) joined forces with Olson Engineering/Olson Environmental (Vancouver, WA). The combined firm will do business under the name MacKay Sposito. Link to details

9/7/2022
Engineering, architecture, and planning services firm MRB Group (Rochester, NY) merged with HBT Architects (Rochester, NY), an architecture firm serving the adaptive re-use, civic, healthcare, higher education, and hospitality markets. Link to details

9/7/2022
Bernhard Capital Partners (Baton Rouge, LA), a services and infrastructure-focused private equity management firm, launched a dedicated architecture, engineering, and construction platform with an investment in Grace Hebert Curtis Architecture (Baton Rouge, LA). Link to details

9/6/2022
Jensen Hughes (Baltimore, MD) (ENR #80), a global leader in safety, security, and risk-based engineering and consulting services, acquired Crossfire (Auckland, New Zealand), a fire safety engineering and performance-based design engineering firm.  Link to details

9/1/2022
Global alternative investment firm H.I.G. Capital (Miami, FL) acquired CPS Building Services (Cambridge, UK), a mechanical and electrical services firm serving the healthcare, life sciences, defense, and education markets. Link to details

9/6/2022
EY Canada (Toronto, Canada) acquired AFARA (Calgary, Canada), a sustainability, and environment, social and governance (ESG) services firm. Link to details

9/2/2022
Place Capital Group (Manchester, UK), a real estate business that acquires and finances development projects, acquired Modern City Architecture and Urbanism (Manchester, UK), an architecture and urban regeneration consulting firm. Link to details

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