RJD Partners Backs Management Buyout of Survey Solutions

WestBridge Acquires Majority Stake in Survey Solutions

January 3, 2024

Engineering Services

UK private equity firm WestBridge has completed a secondary buyout of Land Survey Solutions Limited (trading as Survey Solutions), investing £14.2 million to take a majority stake. The deal provides an exit for RJD Partners and founder James Cooper, and partners WestBridge with CEO David Lowe and the senior management team to pursue geographic expansion, adjacent service-line growth and acquisitive consolidation across the UK surveying market.

Survey Solutions Acquires Survey Systems and Kempston Surveys

February 18, 2021

Engineering Services

Survey Solutions, an RJD Partners-backed UK engineering and topographical surveyor headquartered in Ipswich, has acquired Survey Systems (Manchester) and Kempston Surveys (Bedfordshire) to expand its geographic coverage and service offering. The deals add over 48 employees (over 40 from Survey Systems and eight from Kempston), increase Survey Solutions' headcount to around 160 and bring the business to nine offices nationwide.

Landpoint Acquires RJ Surveying & Associates and Randall Jones & Associates Engineering

December 1, 2020

Engineering Services

Landpoint Holdings, a Cotton Creek Capital–backed geospatial services platform, acquired Austin-based RJ Surveying & Associates, LLC and Randall Jones & Associates Engineering, LLC (collectively “RJES”). The add-on expands Landpoint’s footprint to ten Texas locations and broadens its civil surveying and engineering capabilities in the Austin/Round Rock market.

RJD Partners Backs Management Buyout of Improve International

June 24, 2020

Education

RJD Partners has taken a majority stake in Improve International Limited, backing a management buyout led by CEO Heber Alves with founder David Babington also participating. Improve is a global provider of postgraduate and continuing professional education for the veterinary sector; RJD will support digital capability development and international growth (organically and via acquisitions).

LJA Engineering Adds R.J. Rhodes Engineering

May 1, 2023

Engineering Services

LJA Engineering, an employee-owned multi-disciplinary consulting firm headquartered in Houston, has announced that R.J. Rhodes Engineering, a Sarasota-based civil engineering and land surveying firm, is joining LJA's family of companies. The combination expands LJA's engineering, surveying, and land development capabilities in Florida while providing R.J. Rhodes access to a larger client base and broader multidisciplinary resources.

The Riverside Company Becomes Majority Investor in OutSolve; LNC Partners Recapitalizes Stake

October 17, 2022

Staffing & HR

The Riverside Company has acquired a majority equity stake in OutSolve, LLC, a Metairie, Louisiana-based provider of outsourced labor and employment compliance solutions. LNC Partners sold the majority interest held in its Fund I while LNC's Fund II also joined as a new investor; Riverside plans to drive growth through add-on acquisitions and expanding adjacent services such as pay equity, DE&I and ESG.