AEA Investors Acquires Verdesian Life Sciences

Verdantas Acquires American Engineering & Environmental Consultants (AEEC)

July 9, 2026

IT Services

Verdantas announced it has acquired American Engineering & Environmental Consultants (AEEC), a technology-focused environmental engineering and consulting firm headquartered in Reston, Virginia. The deal is intended to strengthen Verdantas’ artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and data analytics capabilities and expand its delivery of integrated engineering and digital consulting for federal and commercial clients.

Verdantas (Sterling-backed) Acquires Five Environmental & Water Firms

April 8, 2025

Environmental Services

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.

Verdantas Acquires Aegis Environmental

September 17, 2024

Environmental Services

Verdantas, a Tampa-based environmental and engineering consulting firm backed by Sterling Investment Partners, has acquired Aegis Environmental, a Richmond, Virginia environmental consultancy. The acquisition expands Verdantas' geographic footprint into Virginia and strengthens its environmental health & safety, permitting, stormwater, and sustainability capabilities as an add-on to the Verdantas platform.

AEA Investors Acquires SCIO Automation Holding GmbH

August 31, 2023

Industrial Services

AEA Investors’ Middle Market private equity fund has closed the acquisition of SCIO Automation Holding GmbH, making AEA the new majority shareholder. Quadriga Capital’s Partnership Va has exited while Quadriga (Fund VI) has reinvested a minority position; SCIO is an industrial automation system integrator headquartered in Frankenthal, Germany with ~1,100 employees and ~€190 million of revenues in 2022.

Syngenta Group Acquires Verisem BV from Paine Schwartz Partners

June 30, 2021

Agriculture

Syngenta Group's vegetable seeds business agreed to acquire Verisem BV, a global seed production, processing and distribution company, from Paine Schwartz Partners' Food Chain Fund IV. The deal, terms undisclosed, is intended to strengthen Syngenta's vegetable seed production capabilities and global footprint; the transaction is subject to customary regulatory conditions.

Verdesian Life Sciences Acquires Cytozyme Laboratories

April 27, 2021

Agriculture

Verdesian Life Sciences has acquired Cytozyme Laboratories, Inc.; Cascadia Capital served as exclusive financial advisor to Cytozyme. The acquisition brings together complementary biological and nutritional crop technologies to expand Verdesian's product portfolio and support sustainable yield solutions for growers.