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Sterling Investment Partners Acquires Verdantas

May 7, 2024

Environmental Services

Sterling Investment Partners has acquired a majority stake in Verdantas, LLC from Round Table Capital Partners, with Verdantas management, employees, and RTC retaining significant equity. Based in Tampa, Florida, Verdantas is an integrated environmental science, engineering, and consulting firm that has grown rapidly through 18 acquisitions since 2020 and employs over 1,450 staff nationwide.

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 Groundwater Sciences Corporation

November 13, 2024

Environmental Services

Verdantas, a Tampa-based environmental and engineering consulting firm backed by Sterling Investment Partners, has acquired Groundwater Sciences Corporation (GSC). The acquisition expands Verdantas' groundwater, hydrogeology and remediation capabilities and strengthens its local presence in Pennsylvania and New York to better connect its MidAtlantic and New England operations.

Verdantas Acquires Crawford Environmental Services (CES)

December 8, 2025

Environmental Services

Verdantas, a Sterling Investment Partners-backed environmental and engineering consulting platform, has acquired Crawford Environmental Services (CES), a Roanoke, Virginia-based firm specializing in site assessment, remediation, emergency response, and compliance services. The add-on expands Verdantas' technical capabilities and geographic footprint—enhancing support for federal, industrial, and commercial clients across 18 states.

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.

Verdantas Acquires CT Consultants, Inc.

April 10, 2024

Environmental Services

Verdantas, a private-equity-backed environmental and engineering firm, has acquired CT Consultants, Inc., a century-old engineering and environmental consulting firm with a 320-person team. The deal expands Verdantas's water/wastewater, municipal, and transportation engineering capabilities across the Great Lakes region and surrounding states; EFCG advised Verdantas and AEC Advisors advised CT.