
AECOM [ACM] said on Monday it plans to sell its government contracting business for $2.4 billion to two investment firms rather than advancing its previous plan to spin the branch off into a stand-alone public company. Affiliates of New York City-based American Securities and Lindsay Goldberg are joining to buy AECOM’s Management Services business. In June, AECOM announced plans for a 2020 initial public offering for the Management Services group, which holds billions of dollars’ worth of contracts with the…