Mergers & Acquisitions
SAM Mergers & Acquisitions
As an industry leader, we are continually searching for ways to expand our value-adding client solutions, provide our employees with exciting career development opportunities, and add best-in-class talent to our team. We see mergers and acquisitions as a key component of our strategy to meet these goals.
Having successfully completed sixteen acquisitions over the past seven years, we have collaborated with founders to deliver win-win scenarios for our collective clients, stakeholders, and employees. SAM’s entrepreneurial, employee-first culture and expertise have given these founders the ability to accelerate their business, provide their people with unparalleled career opportunities, and monetize their most valuable personal asset.
Consider partnering with an industry-leading professional services firm that, at its core, is focused on the same geospatial solutions and construction phased-services that excite you and your team.
SAM is led by geospatial and construction services professionals with deep experience in the same types of services, sectors, and competencies as the leaders of our acquired companies. Add to that like-minded expertise a national presence with the scale and resources to meet any client need, a business development and marketing team led by industry experts, a blue-chip client base, and strong corporate services; you will then have the tools and support needed to grow and flourish in today’s highly competitive AEC marketplace.
Key Benefits of partnering with SAM
People First Culture
From the field to the Executive Management Team, every employee at SAM is a respected and valued part of our team. We help our people grow and build a career with SAM through our dedicated Learning and Development team and ample opportunities for advancement. We foster community with office events, holiday parties, an employee newsletter, opportunities for community engagement and service, and a welcoming environment.
A strategic partner
When you join SAM, you gain a like-minded, industry-leading partner with experienced business development and operational staff poised to help you further develop value-adding client solutions to become a trusted advisor to your clients. We invest in state-of-the-art technology and equipment to support and advance your work, including proprietary software and applications to make processes more efficient.
Industry-Leading Corporate Services
Our expert corporate services specialists are equipped to partner with you at every stage of the project lifecycle. We support your business from marketing and project proposals to legal, safety, and financial support. We also provide human resources, talent acquisition and administrative support, and a dedicated 24/7 IT helpdesk. All of these services provide our client-facing staff the ability to focus on providing the best service possible to clients.
Entrepreneurial Spirit
As a successful entrepreneurial company, we understand that you and your team have ideas/best practices to share that can make us better. Across our organization, we encourage our team members to take the initiative and share ideas and lessons learned from our projects so that we can improve as a whole. Maintaining that same entrepreneurial environment that you have created, we provide the opportunity to build a semi-autonomous growth strategy and grow a business inside of SAM with the support of a business development team that is second to none – 300+ Seller-Doers and Market Leaders – to collaborate with and share relationships.
National Presence
Whether it be a project outside your geographic footprint or outside your scope of expertise, SAM can help you fulfill your client’s needs. We are experts at rapidly mobilizing assets for our diverse clientele – with one day’s notice, we have assembled 30+ fully equipped crews to execute a project. With 35+ offices across the U.S. and Canada, company-owned aerial acquisition aircraft, top-of-the-line sensors, mobile mappers, and expert staff, we can help you tackle even the most daunting project.
Relief of Risk
When you join SAM, you gain a like-minded, industry-leading partner with experienced business development and operational staff poised to help you further develop value-adding client solutions to become a trusted advisor to your clients. We invest in state-of-the-art technology and equipment to support and advance your work, including proprietary software and applications to make processes more efficient.
Successful M&A Partnership
The Whiddon Group
“Joining SAM was a great fit for our company. The national scope and range of SAM’s suite of services have brought new opportunities for growth and development for our team, and greater value to our client.”
Halis
“SAM’s acquisition of HALIS instantly provided us with the resources we needed to keep pace with our clients’ ever-growing needs. Joining the SAM team also provided our employees with long-term career path opportunities to achieve their professional goals.”
Midland GIS
“The onboarding and integration process for all of our employees went extremely well. SAM helped us on a daily basis with learning many of the new processes. Since then, SAM has continued to provide all of our staff with effective support with their dedicated staff for HR, IT, Safety, Marketing, Field Operations, and Applied Technology, to name just a few.”
Midland GIS
“Being a part of SAM not only allowed us to expand our footprint in the GIS sector and to serve clients across the country, it has also allowed us to focus on business development. The diversified platform and opportunity to grow within a stable and diverse company provides the security to take risks and allows us to continue to be entrepreneurs.”
Haag 3D Solutions
“SAM has provided the opportunity to diversify our office’s services. Now, offering Surveying, Aerial, Mobile Mapping, and SUE services brings on more staff and expands our services for 3D laser scanning, LiDAR, and more. We truly have a multidiscipline office now.”
SAM M&A SUCCESS:
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Daniel Pollock, CFA, CPA
Director of Corporate Development/Mergers and Acquisitions, Associate
Recent Acquisitions
2024
GdB Geospatial
GdB Geospatial brings over 60 years of experience in geomatics and innovative spatial data management solutions. Founded as a small firm, GdB has grown into a powerhouse with a team of over 100 professionals and a reputation for delivering quality results on time and within budget to clients across the utility, transportation, and public works markets. With this transaction, SAM remains committed to advancing its strategic growth strategy, employing a reputation for leveraging spatial data analytics for decision support and accelerating well-informed business decisions for all clients.
2024
PrecisionPoint, Inc.
PrecisionPoint, Inc has assisted Architecture, Engineering, and Construction professionals in accelerating the data collection and documentation processes for facilities and infrastructure since its inception in 2009. PrecisionPoint will join the Managed Geospatial Services™ business unit that is chartered with advancing data acquisition, improving analysis, and developing predictive analytics that redefine and transform how infrastructure assets are built and managed throughout their lifecycle.
2023
Wellston Associates Land Surveyors
Wellston Associates Land Surveyors, LLC of Warner Robins, Georgia is a full-service geomatics firm with experienced personnel equipped to handle the unique demands and time constraints for site investigation, documentation, and land records management in support of engineering design. Wellston Associates has built a stellar reputation for providing geomatic services, including boundary, topographic, stakeout and digital mapping for public and private site development.
2023
AXIS GeoSpatial
Headquartered in Easton, Maryland, AXIS is a full-service professional mapping firm utilizing remote sensing and measurement technologies to provide geospatial data for integration into Civil Engineering and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications.
2023
MTPLS Surveying & Mapping
MTPLS Surveying & Mapping is a professional Geomatics solutions company. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, MTPLS offers a variety of services to clients across the Mid-Atlantic Region. With over 150 years of combined professional knowledge and extensive experience working with clients across both the public and private sectors, MTPLS expands SAM’s capacity, experience, and geographic presence.
2023
GeoSolutions, LLC
GeoSolutions, LLC, is a professional geomatics solutions company. Headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, in the Houston metropolitan area, GeoSolutions has strong relationships with clients in the utilities, transportation, and local government sectors. SAM’s acquisition of GeoSolutions further strengthens our presence in Houston, the largest city in Texas and the 4th largest populated city in the United States, enhancing our ability to recruit talent and expand our resources and client base.
2023
Carolina Surveying Services, Inc.
CSS is a professional geomatics solutions company. Headquartered in Lexington, South Carolina, in the Columbia metropolitan area, CSS has strong client relationships with national and regional architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms, commercial and residential developers, and municipal and government agencies. SAM’s acquisition of CSS further strengthens our presence and strategic initiatives in the Carolinas and Southeastern markets.
2023
AXIS Survey & Mapping
Axis is a professional geomatics solutions company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Axis has strong client relationships in engineering, public works, construction, and infrastructure-focused clients. SAM’s acquisition of Axis advances its strategic growth plan, expanding the Company’s capacity, experience, and geographic presence in the greater northwest region. Axis was represented by Chinook Capital Advisors in the transaction.
2022
Echezabal & Associates, Inc.
Echezabal is a professional land surveying and mapping company headquartered in Tampa, Florida, with additional locations in Deland and Clearwater, Florida. Echezabal is licensed in Florida, with strong client relationships in public works, including the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and other municipal and private sector clients.
2022
Linewise Aerial
Linewise is an aerial inspection and mapping firm serving clients across the utilities sector. Based in Calgary, Canada, Linewise combined ultra high-definition video aerial mapping technology with advanced inspection techniques to deliver comprehensive analysis to clients, including some of the largest electric utilities in the Western U.S. and Canada.
2021
Ghiotto & Associates, Inc.
Ghiotto is a full-service firm licensed in Florida, with strong client relationships in public works such as transportation, including the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), and with other local government clients as well as private sectors such as commercial development.
2021
Johnson Surveying and Mapping
A full-service professional land surveying firm serving the southeastern U.S. with licenses in Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee, and with particularly strong relationships with clients in sectors that include utilities, land development, and other public sector clients.
2021
The Whiddon Group
The Whiddon Group is a Texas-based company specializing in utility engineering services and delivering conflict analysis services on projects for departments of transportation, design-build and other contractors, engineering firms, and utility companies.
2021
Marbach
Marbach, Brady & Weaver, Inc. and Marbach-Palm, Inc., collectively known as “Marbach”, are a multidisciplinary land surveying and engineering company operating in the Great Lakes region. With two offices in Indiana, Marbach has delivered services to clients for more than 100 years and has a strong reputation and deep client relationships throughout the region.
2021
R&S Digital Services, Inc. (R&S)
A leading provider of hosted, web-based GIS solutions available to clients through cloud services. Located in Great Bend, Kansas, R&S’s expertise helped expand SAM’s already strong GIS capabilities for delivering GIS website deployment services across multiple sectors, and particularly for delivering high-value solutions for public sector clients.
2021
John F. Watson & Company (JFWCo)
A multi-service land surveying and consulting firm located in Midland, Texas, specializing in energy and natural resource development. With extensive experience in the electric sector, including numerous renewable and transmission projects, JFWCo’s strong reputation and client relationships throughout the U.S. helped expand SAM’s capacity and solutions for clients in the electric sector, and further diversify our client base.
2020
Halis
Halis is a company located in McDonough, Georgia, specializing in aerial data acquisition and processing across the U.S. This acquisition expanded SAM’s aerial mapping, processing, and GIS website deployment services.
2020
Midland GIS Solutions
The Midwest’s largest GIS design and consulting firm, located in Maryville, Missouri. This acquisition contributed to SAM’s expansion of GIS capabilities, services, and market engagement.
2019
JMC Professional Surveying and Mapping, LLC (JMC)
A provider of surveying services across the southeast U.S. With offices in Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee, this acquisition helped further expand SAM’s geographic reach and service offerings.
2019
Haag 3D Solutions (H3DS)
A division of Haag Engineering Company, an innovator in 3D Laser Scanning and Building Information Modeling for the AEC industry. This acquisition grew SAM’s presence in the Northeast and provided the H3DS team the opportunity to expand their services across SAM’s nationwide footprint.
2018
Nobles Consulting Group, Inc. (NGC)
A leading provider of professional surveying services across the Southeast. The investment enabled SAM to continue expanding our geographic range while providing the Nobles team resources and expertise to expand its service offerings.
