AEC M&A Summit
February 26-28, 2025
Atlantis Resort, Paradise Island, Bahamas
Join leading AEC mergers & acquisitions experts and firm buyers and sellers for two powerful days of valuation, deal structure, and creative success networking.
Welcome to the architecture and engineering industry’s leading mergers & acquisitions innovation conference. AEC M&A Summit brings together firm principals and executives, capitalization experts, investors, and financial analysts for solutions-based workshops, panels, and networking sessions guaranteed to reframe your growth strategy for 2025 and beyond.
- The latest data on AEC valuations and transactions
- Insider-stories on the latest deal structures
- Face-to-face conversations with key dealmakers, investors, strategic buyers and Private Equity investors
- An eye-opening look at the future of acquisition financing
- Proven solutions to your biggest M&A challenges
- Diverse perspectives from buyers, sellers, and wide range of experts
- Emerging and creative models for success
- And so much more!
This event shows you how to harness the energy, potential, and opportunity of growth through merger and acquisition for architecture and engineering firms.
Speakers include some of the top experts in M&A for the AEC industry, including:
Attendee Testimonials
“I attended the past PSMJ M&A conferences and plan on attending again. The conference is a great way to interact with both buyers and sellers to exchange best practices on the state of M&A’s in the architectural and engineering sector.” - Joseph Viscuso, PE, PLS, ENV SP, Senior Vice President and Director of Strategic Growth, Pennoni
“I attended the event for networking purposes, not educational purposes. However, I found the quality of the presentations was so strong, I attended every one of them. A great overall conference with many takeaways!” - Ira Starr, Partner, Long Point Capital
“One of the best conferences I have ever attended; very relevant & up to the minute information and advice.” - Angela O'Byrne, FAIA, NCARB LEED AP, Owner and President, Perez, APC
AEC M&A Summit is where growth-focused executives from architecture and engineering firms will gather to:
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Make smarter mergers and acquisitions decisions: Learn how the most successful M&A deals in the AEC space came together, what your peer executives wish they had done differently, and how to overcome deal delays and roadblocks.
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Get direct access to diverse AEC M&A perspectives and challenges through expert-led presentations and engaging panel discussions.
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Dig into the latest data on AEC merger and acquisition transactions and uncover trends, overcome challenges, and leverage opportunities.
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Network with like-minded peers and experts, visionaries, and other AEC professionals just like you!
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Get answers to your specific questions in a complimentary and confidential one-on-one consultation with a PSMJ senior M&A advisor.
Over two eye-opening days, you learn new ways to identify, assess, plan, and execute AEC mergers and acquisitions that advance your objectives while limiting the substantial risks that come with every decision. You'll swap ideas and war stories with CEOs, principals, firm owners, private equity and capitalization partners, investors, and transaction consultants. And you'll move beyond buzzwords and hype to share what’s driving the BEST deals right now, and how you can benefit!
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Bjorn Morisbak
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
Stantec
As the executive vice president of corporate development, Bjorn oversees all aspects of strategic sourcing, execution and integration of acquisitions for Stantec. Having completed over 100 acquisitions spanning all sizes, services, and geographies, he is passionate about constantly making Stantec better to the benefit of clients, employees and shareholders and making the world a better place in the process.
Ira Starr
Managing Director, Long Point Capital
Ira co-founded Long Point Capital in 1998 after serving as a general partner of MLGA, an M&A advisory firm and private equity firm. Long Point Capital is a leading private equity firm in the architecture, engineering, and construction space. Ira served as a general partner of funds with private equity investments of over $600 million and has advised on transactions with total values of over $5 billion. Prior to MLGA, Ira served as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, and as a strategy consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Ira is a recognized expert and frequent speaker on private equity investments in ESOP, building products, and engineering transactions. Ira earned a BSE in Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ira works in LPC's New York, New York office
Bill O'Brien
Bill and his team work with business owners and their trusted advisors on transition and succession planning strategies. Of special note is Bill's experience in employee stock ownership plans(ESOPs) and strategies for shareholders electing section 1042. Bill has been working with private business owner clients since the mid 1990s.
Kristi Tahmasiyan
Director of Mergers & Acquisitions, Principal. Terracon Consultants
Kristi Tahmasiyan is Director of M&A at Terracon, guiding the strategic development and execution of the M&A program. Over the past 15 years, she has helped integrate more than 60 companies into the firm and is a frequent industry presenter.
Trevor Garfield
Brian Kirkpatrick
Donya Edler
Paul VanDuyne, PE
Frank Mangin, PE
As Operations President – Design & Consulting for the Haskell Company (Jacksonville, FL), Frank is a member of the Executive Leadership Team and therefore responsible for the overall performance of the enterprise. With over 35 years in the industry, Frank is typically involved in all aspects of design and design management on larger, more complex projects, including those for Fortune 500 companies.
Prior to joining Haskell in 2002, Frank worked in the Washington, DC area (where he was born and raised) as a mechanical engineer designing heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems for a variety of building types including educational, residential, commercial office, industrial, manufacturing, aviation, healthcare, life sciences, religious, and government facilities.
Joe Viscuso
Michael (Mick) Renshaw
Mick is the Founder and CEO of Trilon, a people-first firm that brings together North America's best infrastructure consulting firms to deliver smarter solutions and better communities. Now in its third year, Trilon is one of the fastest growing infrastructure consulting firms in north America, with some 5,100 staff across 170 offices in 37 states. Trilon is backed by Alpine Investors a values-driven private equity firm with a mission to build enduring companies by working with, learning from and developing exceptional people. Mick was the Chief Growth Officer at AECOM, the worlds’ largest integrated design and construction firm with annual revenue of US$20 billion and a workforce of 56,000. He was responsible for the Americas business lines of Transportation, Water, Energy, Environment, Buildings and Federal comprising 18,000 people in 7 countries.
Todd Buchholz
Renowned economist, White House advisor, and best-selling author Todd Buchholz connects the dots between Wall Street, Main Street, and financial capitals throughout the world. An internationally known consultant on global markets and winner of Harvard’s annual teaching prize, Buchholz advises the world’s leading companies and "lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit." We get to tap into Todd's frontline experience as White House director of economic policy and managing director of the Tiger investment fund to get a better sense of where opportunities lie in the near term.
- Discover how demographics, technology, and globalization are reshaping the economy and our future
- Pinpoint the signs of stock market rallies, and the warning signs of slumps
- Identify the political pressures on trade, debt, and interest rates from the U.S. to the E.U. to China