Wednesday, December 21, 2011
If your car isn’t running right you call a mechanic, but what if your company breaks down? By inspecting key performance metrics that determine profitability and impact shareholder value you can steer your company to success. As a professional service firm, your success is driven by effective project management—which is driven by time and efficiency of labor and value pricing. This is the "rocket science" needed to understand how to connect the dots from day-to-day operations to building shareholder value and opportunity within your design firms. Visit http://info.aia.org/blast_images/kc/pmkc_12_winter_digest.html for the rest of the article.
Winzler and Kelly Merges With GHD
Monday, October 31, 2011
Below is the press release announcing the merger of Winzler and Kelly with GHD. Matheson Financial Advisors acted as financial, valuation, and merger and acquisition advisor to Winzler & Kelly.
OCT 5, 2011
Winzler & Kelly announced today that it has merged with GHD (www.ghd.com), a leading engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting company with 6,000 employees serving clients from over 100 offices around the globe.
Iver Skavdal, CEO of Winzler & Kelly says “This merger benefits both of our firms. It allows us to offer increased innovation and efficiency to our clients and more professional development opportunities for our staff through a network of global resources, while also strengthening GHD’s offering in the Americas. We look forward to remaining a local business while providing a global network of resources to our clients and the communities we serve.”
“Winzler & Kelly brings us a tremendous talent pool that augments our superb East Coast operations in the USA. By joining with an established West Coast operation, GHD has expanded our service offering across the US, thus achieving a significant step in our growth strategy in the Americas. With this merger, GHD now offers over 70 services to clients in the water, energy & resources, environment, property & buildings, and transportation markets across the entire United States.” says Ian Shepherd, CEO of GHD.
Richard Wankmuller, GHD’s executive in charge of the Americas says, “With Winzler & Kelly’s great experience and capabilities comes great people. Their leadership team includes some of the best leaders I have worked with throughout the world and they augment the fantastic leadership we already have in place at GHD. The firm has been perennially recognized for excellence and innovation, most recently for the Middle Harbor Restoration Project at the Port of Oakland and the City of Santa Rosa’s sustainably designed Utilities Field Office campus. I am confident that Winzler & Kelly’s clients can look forward to the same high quality local service, with the support of global technical resources available through GHD’s highly collaborative network of talented staff.”
GHD is an international network of engineers, architects and environmental scientists that thinks beyond tomorrow to anticipate future challenges. Winzler & Kelly is an Engineering News Record Top 500 firm emphasizing sustainable design, value engineered solutions and innovation.
For more information on the merger and our combined business, contact Saman Chaudry, Chief Communications and Marketing Officer, at samanchaudry@w-and-k.com or (415) 283-4970.
About Matheson Financial Advisors
Matheson Financial Advisors is a corporate financial advisory firm providing a broad range of services including business valuations, ownership transition planning, mergers and acquisitions consulting, and other advisory services for architecture, engineering, environmental, and construction firms, as well as government contractors.
As seen in December 2010 CE News
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
David Cohen contributes to CE News - "Is Ownership Worth It For the Next Generation?"
Matheson Financial Advisors is Looking for a Senior Valuation Advisor
Friday, December 31, 2010
Our growing firm has an opening for a full-time and/ or part-time senior valuation advisor in our Northern Virginia office.
Take the A/E Advisors CEO Survey Now!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
As we prepare for our 4th annual A|E Advisors CEO Forum on March 17-19 in Hollywood, FL, we are conducting an industry-wide survey of CEOs’ thoughts regarding current strategic issues.
The survey consists of the following three questions and can be accessed through this link: http://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/f340g428e2
As a result of the recession, the world changed and is likely never to be the same. What do you see as the "new normal" for firms in our industry, and what business changes has your firm made that you believe will become permanent?
There is a sense that the worst of the recession is behind us, but many are concerned about an impending "W" or double dip, especially considering the commercial real estate and banking situation. How has your firm positioned itself to survive thus far—and eventually prosper—in this uncertain economic environment?
In the past few years, what has been your own biggest challenge as a CEO, and what have you done to address it?
Please note that all responses are completely anonymous.
The special survey website will be available to you for three weeks beginning Friday, January 22 through Friday, February 19, after which we will close the site to tabulate the results into a brief report which we will distribute at the Forum to form the basis of our general session, “CEOs Speak Out: Results from the A|E Advisors Survey.”
Thornton Tomasetti, Inc. (New York, NY) Acquires DASSE Design, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Matheson Advisors served as financial advisors to Thornton Tomasetti in its acquisition of DASSE, a 60-person structural engineering firm with offices in San Francisco and Oakland, CA. Matheson Advisors provided valuation, deal structuring, due diligence consulting, and negotiations for the transaction. The acquisition of Dasse provides 650-person structural firm Thornton Tomasetti with additional geographic reach in California as well as greater resources in the healthcare and education markets.
RHL Design Group, Inc. was acquired by Stantec, Inc.
Monday, September 1, 2008
March 2008 – Matheson Financial Advisors represented RHL Design, a multi-office western U.S., 180-person retail focused program management and A/E firm in the acquisition by Stantec. Matheson Advisors initiated and negotiated the transaction as M&A Advisor to RHL and its owners. Other services provided included longer term strategic consulting, marketing, valuation, deal structuring, and closing assistance. The transaction provided liquidity to RHL shareholders while also providing a strong growth platform for RHL’s retail-focused business.
May /June 2008 - Engineering Inc. interviews Colvin Matheson on strategic mergers and acquisitions
Monday, June 30, 2008
"Engineering Inc." interviews Colvin Matheson and other industry experts on strategic mergers and acquisitions.
May 2007- Atwell-Hicks, LLC (Ann Arbor, MI) merges with HEC Engineering, LLC (Mesa, AZ)
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
May 2007 – Matheson Advisors provided valuation and transaction consulting services to 500+ person land development consultant Atwell-Hicks, LLC in their first western expansion to Phoenix with merger of HEC, a 100-person land development and civil engineering firm.
A/E Advisors First Annual CEO Forum is a great success
Thursday, March 8, 2007
The roundtable discussions at the beautiful Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa from March 9 - March 9, 2007 provided CEO's from firms with a minimum staff size of 150 to take part of strategic roundtables with CEOs of other forward thinking, progressive A/E firms.
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Colvin Matheson Interviews
