 The deal was completed on 3 July 2017, with Atkins becoming SNC-Lavalin's fifth business sector.Atkins was delisted from the London Stock Exchange with effect from 4 July 2017.During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, Atkins announced it was cutting around 280 jobs from its UK infrastructure division, blaming "unprecedented uncertainty" in the sector from which it did not expect to see a bounce back "in the short to medium term."