MBAF Adds Kane & Co.

Top 100 firm MBAF has merged in Kane & Co. The expanded firm will have more than $89 million in annual revenue and 473 employees throughout the U.S.

The addition of Kane & Co. will expand MBAF’s practice area expertise and services for clients. MBAF will gain 21 professionals from Kane & Co., and an increased presence in the condominium and association industry niche.

MBAF will continue to focus on tax and accounting, audit, technology consulting, litigation support, business valuation, risk management, mergers and acquisitions, fiscal and infrastructure consulting, trusts and estates, and private wealth services.

Kane & Co. technology advisors will join WhiteOwl, MBAF’s technology affiliate. WhiteOwl provides business process consulting services, leveraging enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and cloud services for more than 1,000 businesses globally. WhiteOwl and Fiscal Management Associates, a consulting firm dedicated to strengthening nonprofits' financial and operational health, form MBAF’s affiliate network, increasing the firm’s scope of services for clients.

Kane & Co. offices will fuse with MBAF’s offices. The combined firm will have offices in Miami, New York, Valhalla (Westchester, N.Y.), Baltimore, Boca Raton, Boulder, Fort Lauderdale, Coral Gables, Naples, Las Vegas, Orlando and India.

“This union presented a strategic opportunity for MBAF to expand our presence and practice areas with the talented and respected team at Kane and Company,” MBAF chairman and CEO Tony Argiz said in a statement. “Not only will this strengthen MBAF’s position as one of the top 40 largest accounting and consulting firms in the nation, it will reinforce our shared culture of unsurpassed commitment to client service, across multiple markets and industries, domestic and international.”

As a result of the union, MBAF will offer increased career and personal development opportunities for the combined firm’s professionals.

“MBAF and Kane & Company share the same entrepreneurial spirit and unwavering dedication to professional excellence that has earned us the trust and confidence of our clients,” said Monte Kane, founder of Kane & Co. “It is these aligned values that make joining MBAF a decision that will be beneficial for both our clients and our staff.”

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