Weekly merger, acquisition, deal update: December 8

This week Morrissey Goodale reported seven deals in the U.S. and five international deals involving companies from France, Australia, South Korea, Mexico, Japan, and Belgium.

By Morrissey Goodale December 8, 2017

This week Morrissey Goodale reported seven deals in the U.S. and five international deals involving companies from France, Australia, South Korea, Mexico, Japan, and Belgium.

M&A Transactions

11/30/2017

Private equity firm, Bernhard Capital Partners (Baton Rouge, LA), acquired Moreland Altobelli Associates (Duluth, GA), PaveTex Engineering (Lubbock, TX), and Engineering Testing Services (San Ramon, CA). Bernhard will combine the three companies to form Atlas Technical Consultants, which will have more than 30 offices and more than 1,000 employees. Link to details

12/6/2017

Woolpert (Dayton, OH) (ENR #110) completed a minority recapitalization with Long Point Capital (New York, NY), a private investment firm, to assist the AE and geospatial firm with strategy, investments, and add-on acquisitions. Link to details

12/5/2017

Architectural and engineering firm, Mead & Hunt (Middleton, WI) (ENR #141), acquired EMR (Fenton, MO), an engineering and construction management firm in the food sector. Link to details

12/4/2017

JENSEN HUGHES (Baltimore, MD) (ENR #105) acquired Russell Phillips & Associates (Fairport, NY), a leader in providing fire, life safety and emergency management consulting services and technology solutions to the healthcare industry. Link to details

12/5/2017

Clapsaddle-Garber Associates (Marshalltown, IA) and Ryken Engineering and Land Surveying (Ackley, IA) have merged. The two civil engineering and land surveying firms combined resources to better serve their existing and new clients in central and north-central Iowa. Link to details

12/6/2017

This week Bureau Veritas (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) (ENR #25) acquired four firms. Bureau Veritas acquired McKenzie Group (Sydney, Australia), a mandatory property compliance firm, ICTK (Seongnam, South Korea), a provider of smart payment testing and certification services, Ingeniería, Control y Administración (Mexico City, Mexico), a provider of construction project management assistance and technical studies, and IPS Tokai Corporation (Anjo-shi, Japan), an automotive electromagnetic compatibility testing firm. Link to details

12/5/2017

ENR’s #94-ranked global design firm, Assystem (Paris, France), acquired a 72.7% interest in The Biotech Quality Group (Brussels, Belgium), a firm that specializes in performance management and improving regulatory compliance within the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Link to details