EisnerAmper adds MLCworks

EisnerAmper, a Top 25 Firm based in New York, has merged in MLCworks, a digital marketing and growth advisory firm based in Metairie, Louisiana, in a deal that closed earlier this month.

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MLCworks specializes in offering strategic planning, brand development, media strategy, digital advertising, sales enablement, custom website design and development, search engine optimization and online reputation management to clients in the health care, legal, retail, home improvement, nonprofit and other sectors.

Lauren Lightfoot of EisnerAmper
Lauren Lightfoot
Courtesy of EisnerAmper

"Similar to EisnerAmper, MLCworks is passionate about using data-driven insights, a strategic approach, and leading-edge optimization to ensure that every engagement not just meets but exceeds expectations," said MLCworks CEO Lauren Lightfoot in a statement Thursday. "There's a great symbiosis between our two growing firms."

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. EisnerAmper has 475 partners and 4,700 staff members, while MLCworks has approximately seven employees. EisnerAmper's Eisner Advisory Group ranked No. 15 on Accounting Today's list of the Top 100 Firms of 2025, with over $1.02 billion in annual revenue.

"This move further solidifies our philosophy of providing a truly holistic approach to clients' needs—whether that need is international tax planning or creating a state-of-the-art website or growth plan," said Dan Gardiner, managing partner of outsourced solutions at EisnerAmper, in a statement. "We very much look forward to the exciting new opportunities this relationship will offer clients going forward."

EisnerAmper has been busy on the M&A front since it received private equity funding in 2021 from TowerBrook Capital Partners, setting the stage for other accounting firms to follow its lead. Last year, it added Prague & Co., a firm based in the Boston area, and Bolotin Financial Group, a global business advisory firm, joined EisnerAmper's Prosperity wealth management business. In 2024, it added Tighe, Kress & Orr in Elgin, Illinois, Krost CPAs in the Los Angeles area, Edelstein & Co. in Boston, the Tidwell Group in Birmingham, Alabama, while in 2023, it merged in Spielman Koenigsberg & Parker in New York, Morrison & Morrison in Chicago, and Top 100 Firm Postlethwaite & Netterville in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 2022, it added Lindsay & Brownell in La Jolla, California, Hoffman Group in Baltimore, Lurie in Minnesota and Florida, and Top 100 Firm Raich Ende Malter  and Popper & Co. in New York.

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