Today’s M&A Climate
Historical Deal Activity
This graphs shows the number of M&A deals that closed in the AEC industry each year since 2014. As you can see, 2021 was extremely hot as there were 200 more deals that closed compared to 2020.
Main Service of Buyers & Sellers
This graph shows the primary service focus of both buyers and sellers. You can roughly see in this graph that Civil Engineering firms are buying up firms that are offering complimentary services to theirs. The other service line where buyers exceed sellers is ‘Other’ which includes Private Equity as well as other niche firms that don’t neatly fit in our typical AEC firm classifications.
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