Wold Architects and Engineers, a portfolio company of Providus Capital Partners, has acquired Klein McCarthy Architects. Klein McCarthy designs courthouses, jails, law enforcement centers and other government buildings for counties and public agencies and has completed more than 90 justice projects in Minnesota and nearby states. The firm is based in St. Louis Park, Minn.
Klein McCarthy was founded in 1977. Wold, founded in 1968 and based in Minneapolis, provides planning, architecture and engineering services, with more than 370 staff in offices in Minnesota, Illinois, Colorado, Tennessee and Indiana. Detroit-based Providus, founded in 2022, invests in architecture, engineering and construction services firms across North America. Generational Group advised Klein McCarthy. The transaction closed Aug. 31.


