Integrations

Prager Metis CPAs LLC has combined with Cameo Wealth & Creative Management Inc., and the Asteri Group, Ltd., a pair of affiliated business management and accounting firms with offices in New York and California that focus on the entertainment industry, along with Smallfield Cody, a firm based in London that also caters to the entertainment field, the latest in a string of similar combinations for the firm.

APEX CPAs & Consultants merges in Morrison & Associates; Smith Barta & Company joins Maloney + Novotny; A&M Taxand adds TRCG Advisors; Briggs & Veselka acquires William C. Love CPAs; and Ryan buys Retzloff.

Cherry Bekaert LLP, a Top 100 Firm, has expanded its state and local tax practice by acquiring Windward Tax LLC in Alpharetta, Ga., effective Dec. 31, 2017.

RubinBrown LLP, a Top 100 Firm, has merged in Goltermann & Associates, expanding the firm’s wealth advisory service in St. Louis, effective Jan. 1, 2018.

Prager Metis CPAs LLC has merged in Geibelson, Young & Company, expanding the New York-based Top 100 Firm’s presence in California with a firm that caters to the entertainment industry, effective Jan. 1, 2018.

Marks Paneth LLP, a Top 100 Firm, has added Buck, Sturmer & Co., effective Jan. 1, 2018.

Honkamp Krueger & Co., P.C., has acquired a fellow Iowa-based firm, Gabelmann & Associates, effective Jan. 1, 2018.

BKD CPAs & Advisors has acquired the financial institution practice of Houston-based Harper & Pearson Company, P.C, effective Jan. 9, 2018.

Crowe Horwath LLP plans to merge in TRU8 Solutions, an Atlanta-based risk consulting firm, effective Jan. 31, 2018.

Eide Bailly LLP plans to add France, Basterrechea, Wagner & Bunn, a CPA firm based in Gooding, Idaho, effective May 14, 2018.