Verdantas (Sterling-backed) Acquires Five Environmental & Water Firms
April 8, 2025
Verdantas, a Sterling Investment Partners–backed environmental and engineering consultancy, completed five add-on acquisitions—Horizons Engineering, Aqua Engineering, Advanced Earth Sciences (AES), Atlantic Resource Consultants (ARC), and Atlantic Environmental Consulting Services—to broaden its technical capabilities and geographic footprint across the U.S. The deals strengthen Verdantas' water, geotechnical, remediation, permitting, and surveying capabilities while adding new offices in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine and enhancing remediation resources in New Jersey.
- Buyers
- Verdantas, Sterling Investment Partners
- Targets
- Horizons Engineering, Inc., Aqua Engineering Inc., Advanced Earth Sciences, Inc. (AES), Atlantic Resource Consultants, LLC (ARC), Atlantic Environmental Consulting Services, LLC
- Platforms
- Verdantas
- Industry
- Environmental Services
- Location
- United States
- Transaction Type
- Addon
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