WSP Global Inc.

Is WSP publicly traded?
Yes. WSP Global trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under ticker WSP and is part of the S&P/TSX Composite Index.

What does WSP stand for?
The modern company took its name from WSP Group, the British firm Genivar acquired in 2012. The name today functions simply as the company brand rather than an acronym.

Where is WSP headquartered?
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where the company's Genivar predecessor originated.

How many employees does WSP have?
Approximately 74,400 at the end of fiscal 2025, working in more than 50 countries.

What is WSP's revenue?
Fiscal 2025 gross revenue was CAD 18.285 billion, with net revenue of CAD 13.96 billion.

Who owns WSP?
WSP is widely held by institutional and retail investors through its TSX listing. No single shareholder controls the company.

What did WSP acquire recently?
Major recent deals include Power Engineers (2025, approximately 4,000 staff), plus earlier acquisitions of Golder Associates (2021) and Wood's Environment & Infrastructure business (2021) that built its environmental scale.

The roots are genuinely old: predecessor firms date to the 19th century, including the British engineering practices that became WSP Group. The modern company, however, is a 21st-century consolidation story.

Montreal-based Genivar, itself built from Quebec engineering firms dating to 1959, acquired the London-listed WSP Group in 2012 in a transformative CAD 442 million deal, adopting the WSP name. CEO Pierre Shoiry and later Alexandre L'Heureux then executed one of the most aggressive acquisition programs in professional services history.

Major deals followed: Parsons Brinckerhoff in 2014 added US and Asia-Pacific scale (the company briefly traded as WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff); Mouchel (2016), Opus International (2017), and BergerABAM strengthened regional positions. The 2018 acquisition of environmental consultancy ERM-adjacent firms and 2021 purchase of Wood's Environment & Infrastructure business for roughly USD 1.8 billion made WSP a top-tier environmental player. Golder Associates, acquired in 2021 for USD 1.14 billion, added 7,000 earth-science specialists.

Under L'Heureux, CEO since 2016, the strategy continued: 2025 acquisitions included Power Engineers (approximately 4,000 staff, a major US power and energy consultancy) and TRC Companies' digital and advisory operations, extending WSP's energy-transition exposure. Revenue grew from CAD 8 billion in 2019 to CAD 18.3 billion in 2025, roughly doubling in six years.

WSP positions sustainability as core to its business: it advises on climate adaptation, renewable energy, and decarbonization, and reports its own ESG performance with net-zero commitments and CDP disclosure. The company is regularly listed in Corporate Knights' Global 100 sustainable companies.

The firm works on fossil fuel projects as well, attracting occasional criticism from environmental groups; it has stated policies governing project selection. No material environmental violations are reported.

• Corporate Knights Global 100: Repeated inclusion among the world's most sustainable companies.
• ENR Top Global Design Firms: Consistently ranked in the top tier of Engineering News-Record's global rankings.
• Canadian ESG awards: Recognized for sustainability reporting and governance.