Crowe Chizek Picks Up N.J. Firm

Crowe Chizek and Co. LLC announced that it intends to combine practices with New Jersey-based Enterprise Financial Consulting Group LLC.

Financial terms of the deal, which is planned to close July 1, were not disclosed.

EFC was founded in 1996 and employs more than 20 professionals in offices in Mt. Laurel, N.J., and Atlanta. The firm focuses on providing customized risk consulting, governance and compliance solutions to East Coast businesses. 

"Combining practices with EFC will help us to further expand our East Coast footprint, a market we have been focusing on since we opened our New Jersey office in 2004,” said Crowe chief executive Chuck Allen, in a statement.

EFC senior managing director Jonathan Marks, along with senior managing director Kevin O’Sullivan, will join Crowe as partners.

"We had been planning to expand further on the East Coast for some time,” said Crowe chief operating officer Kevin McGrath,. “The attractiveness of this market as a whole, its importance in our growth plans and EFC’s quality people and values were major factors in our decision to combine practices.”

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