Gorfine, Schiller & Gardyn merges with Morice, Layton & Fagan; and Magone & Co. and M.E. Safris join forces.

Aprio LLP, a Top 100 Atlanta-based firm that recently changed its name from Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, has added Yeager & Boyd, a CPA firm based in Birmingham, Alabama.

The firm has expanded its Wealth Advisory Practice by merging in a Jacksonville group with $350 million in assets under management.

The Texas firm is adding a consultancy that specializes in performing economic analyses for commercial legal disputes and litigation support.

Carr, Riggs & Ingram has expanded its Atlanta presence by merging in Babush, Neiman, Kornman & Johnson LLP, making it one of the 15 biggest firms in the city.

The deal expands the firm's presence in Southeast Michigan by adding an office in Ann Arbor.

The deal adds Proctor, Crook, Crowder & Fogal to the Alabama-based super-regional firm.

The firm has expanded its business management services for the California entertainment industry with its latest deal.

Under the deal, the firms’ Los Angeles operations will be joined and the combined practice will look to expand its entertainment-industry business management services.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s guidance on the definition of a business could be of special benefit to the real estate, pharmaceutical, biotech and financial services industries, but doesn’t go as far as some had hoped.

Two merger deals occurred in California and Illinois.

Two Nebraska accounting firms are planning to combine forces in a transaction set to take effect on May 1.

Marks Paneth LLP is expanding its entertainment practice by acquiring Shedler & Cohen LLP, a firm based in New York, effective Jan. 1, 2017.

The deal expands the firm's international tax practice in New York.

DHG has expanded its presence in Nashville by acquiring a firm that specializes in consulting services for healthcare businesses.

HCL is the fourth firm in the Chicago area to join Wipfli in the past 13 months.

The firm has bought Dixon Hughes Goodman’s practice in Roanoke, Va., effective Feb. 1, 2017.

The firm extends its footprint in California by acquiring a Fresno practice.

Haefele Flanagan acquires Ratner and Associates; Olsson & Company, CPAs joins RRBB Accountants and Advisors; and Smith Elliott Kearns & Company merges in Klingler & Associates.

Blue Benefits Consulting Inc., an affiliate of Top 100 accounting firm Blue & Co., has merged in Indiana Benefits Inc., effective Jan. 2, 2017, expanding the firm’s benefits consulting business.