Private equity

Private equity firm Further Global has taken a minority stake in the Top 25 Firm.

The Top 25 Firm is expanding in Connecticut by adding the Woodbridge-based accounting, consulting and tax firm.

The private equity-backed platform is adding Pasadena, California-based Lucas Horsfall.

The PE-backed accounting business has completed the acquisition of tax prep, planning, advisory and accounting firm Wiener and Garg in Rockville, Maryland.

Private equity may bring valuable, if not entirely welcome, changes to the accounting profession.

Beyond private equity lie a host of other acquirers and accounting firm structures — and not all of them will be good for the profession.

Prosecutors alleged Robert Brockman controlled Point and used it to engage in the largest tax-evasion scheme by an individual in U.S. history.

Prosperity Partners, a private equity-backed firm in Chicago, has completed the acquisition of Detroit-based Cendrowski Corporate Advisors.

The Regional Leader firm based in Jackson, Tennessee, has received a strategic investment from Copley Equity Partners LLC.

Springline Advisory, a private equity-funded firm, is growing by bringing in accounting firms.

How do you fix an industry in consolidation? Enter private equity.

The Top 25 Firm is expanding in Illinois, the latest in a series of M&A deals since EisnerAmper received private equity funding.

Plus Platform Business Advisors adds a firm that serves hotels in Texas.

The Top 100 firm announced it has partnered with Audax Private Equity, making it the latest in a string of large accounting firms to score PE money.

EisnerAmper, a Top 25 Firm based in New York, is adding the partners and colleagues of Krost CPAs, a Top 100 Firm based in the Los Angeles area, in a combination expected to close in September.

An influx of investors is accelerating growth in the professional services sector.

The Atlanta-based Top 50 Firm secured funding from Boston-based Charlesbank Capital Partners.

The Top 25 Firm in New York has added an assurance, tax and advisory firm in Worcester, Massachusetts, the latest in a series of acquisitions since it received private equity funding.

A panelist during the Scaling New Heights conference in Orlando said that private equity firms are looking for firms with good revenue, but numbers alone don't tell the whole story.

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans sided with the private funds industry, which argued that the agency overstepped its authority.