Weekly merger, acquisition, deal update: September 12

This week Morrissey Goodale reported two deals in the United States and seven international deals involving companies from the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, and Canada.

By Morrissey Goodale September 12, 2014

This week Morrissey Goodale reported two deals in the United States and seven international deals involving companies from the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, and Canada.

M&A Transactions

9/9/2014

Middle market investment firm, Norwest Equity Partners (Minneapolis, MN) announced that it has made a significant investment in Uintah Engineering & Land Surveying (Vernal, UT). Uintah provides surveying, drafting, and engineering services to the upstream and midstream oil & gas industry. Link to details

9/9/2014

WorleyParsons (North Sydney, Australia) announced an agreement to acquire MTG (Houston, TX), a management consulting firm in the oil and gas, petrochemicals and chemicals industries. WorleyParsons provides expertise in engineering, procurement, and construction and offers a wide range of consulting and advisory services. Link to details

9/11/2014

The planning division of WYG (Leeds, UK) has merged with Alliance Planning (Birmingham, UK). The 31 design professional from Alliance Planning are all joining WYG, boosting their team of planning experts to over 100. Link to details

9/9/2014

Technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and financial services firm Larsen & Toubro (Mumbai, India) has acquired 50% of the stake in L&T-Ramboll Consulting Engineers Limited (LTR) (Chennai, India) previously held by Ramboll Denmark AS. LTR now becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of L&T. Link to details

9/8/2014

Trimble (Sunnyvale, CA) acquired Gehry Technologies (Los Angeles, CA), a software and consulting services business. Trimble is a provider of advanced positioning technology and mobile solutions that maximize productivity and enhance profitability. Link to details

9/8/2014

Global built asset consultancy, EC Harris (London, UK) has added Christal Management (Manchester, UK) to its UK business. Christal Management is a specialist construction project management consultancy and their 32 project management experts who will be integrated into EC Harris’ Buildings team. Link to details

9/5/2014

Vertex Resource Group (Sherwood Park, Canada) acquired Navus Environmental (Edmonton, Canada), an environmental consulting firm servicing the oil and gas and mining industries. Vertex is a provider of consulting, construction, and rental services. Link to details

9/5/2014

Engineering and project services company, Clough Limited (West Perth, Australia) announced the acquisition of Booth Welsh (Ayrshire, UK). Booth Welsh is an engineering services firm specializing in the provision of electrical, instrumentation and automation design, process consultancy, project management, implementation, and commissioning services. Link to details

9/3/2014

Global provider of value-added, technology-based products and services for rail and other industrial markets, Wabtec Corporation (Wilmerding, PA) acquired C2CE (Perth, Australia), a provider of railway signal design services. Link to details