COLORADO

Eide Bailly acquires Pyle

Details: Top 100 Firm Eide Bailly has acquired William D. Pyle & Associates, expanding the firm's tax practice in Boulder, Colo. The deal took effect November 1. The acquisition of Pyle's tax practice adds nearly 350 clients to Eide Bailly's client base. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Tax manager Dory Troutman, tax associate Ben Boggess and administrative assistant Sarah Hall have joined Eide Bailly from Pyle's firm.

"We recently moved into new space in Boulder to accommodate expansion opportunities," noted Eide Bailly managing partner and CEO Jerry Topp.

FLORIDA

Moss Krusick merges in Dexter & Associates

Details: Moss, Krusick & Associates has merged in Dexter & Associates, expanding the firm's presence in Orlando, Fla. The merger took effect on September 1. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. As a result of the merger, Dexter & Associates managing partner James Dexter has joined Moss Krusick.

Moss Krusick partner Joe Krusick noted that Dexter's niches in estate and trust work, litigation support, and consulting blend with his firm's niches, which include closely held businesses and entrepreneurs, construction, employee benefit plans, hospitality, manufacturing, nonprofits, real estate, and SEC audits.

Dexter said that the merger would enable his firm to expand its services to local, regional and national clients, as well as join the international accounting association CPAAI. M&A consulting firm Transition Advisors assisted in the merger.

ATLANTA

Pershing Yoakley to merge in GatesMoore

Details: Health care accounting and consulting firms Pershing Yoakley & Associates and GatesMoore announced plans to merge on January 1.

The combined firm will have more than 180 employees in offices in Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Knoxville, Tenn.; and Tampa Bay, Fla. GatesMoore will contribute approximately 50 professionals and staff to the combined firm. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed

"Over our nearly 30 years, we have never seriously considered a merger or acquisition," said GatesMoore co-founder Greg Gates. "When PYA approached us about how our two companies might work together to better service physicians, hospitals and the entire health care community, we were anxious to hear them out."

GatesMoore specializes in physician services and fair market value reporting. The firm was founded in 1982. PYA was established in 1983, and has grown to a staff of 130 in four offices.

ILLINOIS

Grant Thornton acquires military health contractor

Details: Grant Thornton has acquired Computer Technology Associates' Health Solutions Division.

The deal will give the firm five military health care contracts and the health care professionals who have supported them at CTA. Stephen Casey, the former executive vice president of CTA's Health Solutions Division, will join Grant Thornton, along with a team of specialists in the field. Casey has 10 years of program management experience within the military health system and 29 years of experience overall in health care and related technology.

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