Weekly merger, acquisition, deal update: October 10

This week Morrissey Goodale reported four deals in the United States and five international deal involving companies from the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Singapore.

M&A TRANSACTIONS

This week Morrissey Goodale reported four deals in the United States and five international deal involving companies from the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Singapore.

10/3/2014

Leading engineering, consulting, and construction services firm, The Burns Group (Philadelphia, PA) acquired Orth-Rodgers & Associates, Inc. (ORA) (Newtown Square, PA), an award-winning engineering and planning firm specializing in highway, bridge and traffic engineering, environmental services, and public involvement. ORA serves a variety of public and private clients including state departments of transportation, municipal and county government, and private developers. Morrissey Goodale provided M&A advisory services to The Burns Group. Link to details

10/1/2014

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT) (Sparks, MD) and Rubeling & Associates (Towson, MD) have merged. The two firms will combine their architectural groups to blend and strengthen many services. Link to details

10/6/2014

COWI (Lyngby, Denmark) acquired Donaldson Associates (Uttoxeter, UK), a consulting company known for delivering high-end geotechnical design as well as tunnel and underground engineering services. COWI is a consulting group that has competencies within engineering, economics and environmental science. Link to details 

10/2/2014

Kane and Johnson Architects (Rochester, MN) merged with Widseth Smith Nolting (Crookston, MN), a multi-disciplined firm with experts in civil, mechanical, electrical, and structural engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, land surveying, environmental services, and water resources. Link to details

10/3/2014

Natural and built asset design and consultancy firm, ARCADIS (Amsterdam, Netherlands) acquired Franz Environmental (Mississauga, Canada), a firm with specialized expertise in environmental remediation, site assessments, brownfields, and hydrogeology. Link to details

10/3/2014

IBI Group agreed to sell the Quebec assets and operations of IBI/DAA Group, CHB-IBI Group, Martin, Marcotte/Beinhaker Architects, and related entities (Toronto, Canada) to Services Intégrés Lemay & Associés (Lemay) (Montreal, Canada). IBI Group also sold a 30 percent equity interest in IBI Group Urban Consultant to Lemay and a 19 percent equity interest to Daniel Arbour. Link to details

10/6/2014

Technical consultancy services firm Rejlers (Stockholm, Sweden) acquired Sonika AB (Stockholm, Sweden), an engineering consultancy focusing on installation management of technology-intensive construction. Link to details

10/3/2014

Private equity firm, Southern Capital Group (Singapore, Singapore) bought a majority stake in United Engineers engineering and construction subsidiary UE E&C (Singapore, Singapore) for around S$230 million. Link to details

10/1/2014

Bowman Consulting (Chantilly, VA) announced that it has acquired Omland Engineering Associates (Cedar Knolls, NJ), a civil engineering and land surveying company. The acquisition was effective on October 1. Link to details