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  • Where to find Zweig Group this summer

    Where to find Zweig Group this summer

    May 18, 2025 | Mailena Urso

    By Mailena Urso | The Zweig Group team is hitting the road to share fresh insights on how AEC firms can stay ahead.

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  • M&A Activity Report for the week of 7/8/24-7/14/24

    M&A Activity Report for the week of 7/8/24-7/14/24

    July 12, 2024

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team...

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  • Vierbicher merges with Mau

    Vierbicher merges with Mau

    April 06, 2023 | Andy Chavez

    Zweig Group – the leading research, publishing, and advisory services resource for firms in the AEC industry – advised Vierbicher through the acquisition process.

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  • HUNT Engineers, Architects, Land Surveyors & Landscape Architect, DPC Announces Acquisition of Shumaker Consulting Engineering and Land Surveying, DPC

    HUNT Engineers, Architects, Land Surveyors & Landscape Architect, DPC Announces Acquisition of Shumaker Consulting Engineering and Land Surveying, DPC

    February 03, 2023

    Zweig Group advisedShumaker Consulting Engineering and Land Surveying through its acquisition by HUNT Engineers, Architects, Land Surveyors & Landscape Architect, DPC.

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  • M&A Activity Report (10/04/21 – 10/10/2021)

    M&A Activity Report (10/04/21 – 10/10/2021)

    October 12, 2021

    Domestic Transactions: STV Group, Inc. (Douglassville, PA), has acquired an employee-owned engineering, architectural, and field services consulting firm, CP&Y, Inc. (Dallas, TX). Link to Details RESPEC (Rapid City, SD), a mining, energy, water, environment, and...

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  • Untimely events

    Untimely events

    November 04, 2019

    Untimely events, like the unexpected death of a firm leader, can and do happen. Is your firm ready?

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  • Investment value

    Investment value

    April 22, 2019

    Is your firm an investment value candidate? If you’re looking to sell, this is the level of value at which you have the most opportunity to maximize your exit.

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  • The best ever: P. Bradford Cheney

    The best ever: P. Bradford Cheney

    February 25, 2019

    President and CEO of CME (Hot Firm #36 for 2018), an engineering firm headquartered in Connecticut that refuses to be affordable and mediocre. By Liisa Andreassen Correspondent “If we cannot grow fast enough to provide...

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  • Discounts and stock values

    Discounts and stock values

    December 31, 2018

     There are multiple considerations to be made when valuing a privately-held company and the assessment of the many moving parts. The valuation of privately-held firms, including those in the AEC industry, will usually involve discounting...

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  • Your own worst enemy

    Your own worst enemy

    September 10, 2018

    If you don’t identify and address your firm’s problems, you could increase the measure of risk while decreasing value. There is a four-letter word floating around out there that’s probably the first that comes to...

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  • Conference call: Gary Dahms

    May 07, 2018

    President, CEO, and chairman of the board for T&M Associates (Hot Firm #73 for 2016), a 350-person engineering firm based in Middletown, New Jersey. By Liisa Andreassen Correspondent Gary Dahms, PE, PP, CME, has been...

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  • Your exit strategy

    March 26, 2018

    There are a few ways to transition out of your firm. The internal transition is popular because it has great value and keeps the firm going. At some point in every A/E firm owner’s business...

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  • Share value

    March 05, 2018

    Attention to performance metrics can enhance business value, so you might try using a few new financial ratios in your spreadsheets. For those of you involved with firm financial management, you expect to regularly review...

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  • Life insurance

    December 11, 2017

    Could it be your final act of leadership? If you are a CEO or partner and do not have it, please consider changing the scenario. The A/E/P and environmental consulting industry has many unique qualities,...

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  • Proceed with caution

    May 22, 2017

    Valuation formulas are subject to many influences, so it helps to periodically test them out to make sure they yield accurate results. Many firms in the A/E industry are attracted to using a “valuation formula”...

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  • A Few Words on Buy-Sell Agreements

    July 12, 2011

    By Tracey Jeffers Principal, Valuation Consulting ZweigWhite I recently worked on a valuation engagement for a project management firm involving minority shareholder value in a litigation. Besides the relevant financial data, one of the first...

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  • Attention Firm Owners – You Could Be Your Own Worst Enemy

    April 07, 2011

    By Tracey D. Jeffers There is a four letter word floating around out there in the atmosphere that is likely the first formed in the mind of an investor when determining whether or not an...

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  • Finance Insider: Accounting methods may mask performance

    March 11, 2011

    By Tracey D. Jeffers Cash and accrual methods each have their pluses and minuses. Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series. In her first article (The Zweig Letter, Feb. 21, issue 899)...

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