M&A Activity Report (11/08/21 – 11/14/2021)

Nov 15, 2021

Domestic Transactions:
  • Diversified engineering consulting firm, Miller Legg (Fort Lauderdale, FL) has announced a partnership with The HFW Companies (St. Louis, MO) to enhance Miller Legg's capabilities and continued growth. HFW has extensive experience in national A/E services and the growth of mid-size firms. Link to Details
  • Civil engineering and project management firm, Ardurra Group, Inc. (Tampa, FL) has acquired and merged with Ritoch-Powell & Associates, Inc. (Phoenix, AZ), a multi-disciplined civil engineering firm. RPA will operate as RPA, an Ardurra Group Company, from its offices in Arizona. Link to Details
  • Universal Engineering Sciences (Orlando, FL), a national leading engineering and consulting company specializing in geotechnical engineering, construction materials testing, building code compliance, threshold inspections, and environmental consulting, has agreed to acquire Alpha Testing (Dallas, TX), a professional geotechnical firm. Link to Details
  • Connetics Transportation Group (Atlanta, GA) has joined Nelson/Nygaard (San Francisco, CA). This partnership expands Nelson/Nygaard's transit planning and multimodal design services, and augments them with an industry-leading travel demand modeling and big data analytics practice. Link to Details
  • Multi-discipline design firm offering a full range of services including Civil and Structural engineering, PVE (Sewickley, PA), has acquired TEC Engineering (Hartford, CT). The acquisition of TEC Engineering provides existing clients access to PVE's broad business platform. Link to Details
  • Hafer (Evansville, IN), an architecture, engineering, interior design, and landscape architecture firm has acquired HMB Architects (Carbondale, IN). The acquisition will expand Hafer's service area and help support our regional clients achieve their project needs. Link to Details
  • A&M Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc. (Tulsa, OK) has announced the acquisition of Environmental Technologies Group, Inc. (Eugene, OR), an environmental consulting firm. The acquisition of ETG will bolster A&M's staff, capabilities and service portfolio, and will expand the geographic reach in the western United States. Link to Details
  • Intreegue Design, Inc. (Elkridge, MD), a boutique landscape architecture design firm with vast experience has announced the acquisition of Donovan Feola Balderson & Associates (Gaithersburg, MD), a landscape architecture and site planning firm. Link to Details
Global Transactions:
  • European leader in engineering, design, and advisory services with a global reach, AFRY (Stockholm, Sweden), has announced the acquisition of Trivalo AB (Stockholm, Sweden) to strengthen its digital offering within asset management. Trivalo focuses on data-driven asset management and has a proven methodology supported by their own digital toolbox, packaged services, and training portfolio. Link to Details
  • One of the world's largest pure play sustainability consultancy, ERM (London, UK), has acquired Stratos, Inc. (Ottawa, Canada), one of Canada's leading sustainability and ESG advisory firms. The acquisition further strengthens ERM's leading capability in sustainability and climate change advisory services and builds on recent acquisitions. Link to Details
  • Global leader in environmental and advisory solutions, SLR (Alesbry, UK), has announced the acquisition of 360 Environmental (West Leederville, Australia), a leading Western Australian environmental management consultancy that shares SLR's vision. Link to Details
  • RSK Group Limited, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business, has announced it is further strengthening its offering with the acquisition of four businesses across the environmental services sector: Carbon Zero Consulting (Oakham, UK), Envireau Water (Melbourne, UK), Enviroflow (Leeds, UK) and Streetwise (Bristall, UK). Link to Details
  • Corstorphine & Wright (Warwick, UK) has announced an exciting new merger with Midlands-based West Hart Partnership (Tamworth, UK), which will become its tenth studio in the UK and fourth in the region. WHP is an architecture firm with extensive expertise in the health care sector. Link to Details
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