Integrations

CRI has expanded its presence in Florida with a deal that adds offices in Bradenton and Sarasota.

Valuation Research Corp. co-CEO PJ Patel discusses the continued scrutiny of how business combinations are accounted for and valued, and the implications of the new tax law.

The firm is adding more talent in Louisville, Ky.

Spoor Bunch Franz merges in Strawn, Marshall, Cunningham, Condon & Sweat; Rotz & Stonesifer adds Butler, Gingerich & Company.

Noyes, a 110-year-old wealth management and investment banking firm, intends to acquire more accounting and tax firms after buying Kiely & Associates, LLC, a 25-year-old Chicago tax and accounting practice, last month.

PricewaterhouseCoopers signed an agreement Wednesday to sell its U.S. Public Sector business to the private equity firm Veritas Capital.

Surprisingly, the expansion into broader advisory services has been slow and limited at most firms.

Cherry Bekaert LLP, a Top 100 Firm, is expanding to Austin, Texas by acquiring Powell, Ebert & Smolik, PC, one of the biggest CPA firms there.

BDO USA has expanded its health care advisory services practice by merging in the consulting division of PBC Advisors, a firm based in Oak Brook, Ill., near BDO’s Chicago home base.

CBIZ, Inc. has acquired Laurus Transaction Advisors LLC, a Denver-based business that provides buy-side and sell-side financial and accounting due diligence services for M&A transactions to private equity firms along with public and private companies, effective Feb. 1, 2018.

Weaver, a Top 100 Firm, has acquired the tax practice of Condon & Company, P.C., a firm based in Houston, effective Feb. 1, 2018.

Linton Shafer Warfield & Garrett CPAs has signed an agreement to merge in the specialty tax consultancy firm WN CPAs, effective Jan. 1, 2018.

Wipfli LLP, a Top 100 Firm, has expanded into Colorado by adding Bauerle and Company, a CPA firm based in Denver, effective Thursday, Feb. 1.

Ernst & Young has merged in Citizen, a digital design firm based in Portland, Ore., which will become part of the Big Four firm’s consulting business on the West Coast.

A group led by Blackstone Group LP agreed to buy a majority stake in Thomson Reuters Corp.’s financial and risk unit in a deal that values the business at $20 billion, sealing plans for the firm’s biggest buyout in a decade.

RSM US LLP has signed an agreement to add the leaders and staff of SecureState, a security and privacy consulting firm based in Cleveland, and acquire substantially all of its assets.

Oak Street Funding, a unit of First Financial Bank that offers commercial financing for businesses, has opened a new website that allows CPAs to list or search for accounting practices for sale.

SAP SE Chief Executive Officer Bill McDermott has backed U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax plan, and revealed a $2.4 billion deal for Callidus Software Inc., its biggest acquisition in more than three years.

Maillie LLP is adding Rowland, Johnson and Company, a CPA firm based in New Castle, Del.

Aprio LLP, a CPA-led business advisory firm, has acquired RRB Business Services LLC, an Atlanta-based CPA and consulting firm.