Clinard Engineering Associates merges with Alfred Benesch & Company

PSMJ initiates transaction and advises Clinard Engineering Associates

As of October 3, 2011, Clinard Engineering Associates of Nashville, Tennessee has joined forces with Alfred Benesch & Company, a leading multi-discipline design firm serving a wide range of client markets. With offices in Nashville and Chattanooga, Clinard is a transportation engineering firm that specializes in civil, structural, and environmental engineering services.

By merging with Benesch, Clinard is now part of a multi-faceted engineering team with a network of offices from Pennsylvania to Colorado. The combined firm now has more than 380 employees located throughout ten states including Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

“When you have the right firms merging together for the right reasons, you will realize growth opportunities that neither firm would have accomplished on their own” states PSMJ Consultant Bradford Wilson, CMA. Wilson, the lead consultant on this engagement, went on to state “Geographic expansion is the top reason that firms choose to grow through acquisition and we’re confident that this transaction will reap rewards for years to come.”

This transaction is one of many that have made 2011 a year of significant transaction activity in the A/E industry. According to PSMJ’s transaction tracking, there have been 156 mergers or acquisitions in the industry in the first three quarters of the year and PSMJ is forecasting that pace to continue bringing the year’s total to pre-recession levels of 200+ transactions. “But, the number of transactions doesn’t tell the entire story.” stated Gregory Hart, PSMJ Consultant, when discussing M&A transaction activity. “The size and nature of deals today is quite different from what we saw before the economic meltdown. This is still a very risk-averse environment and the transactions reflect that.”

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