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.

The mania goes on, even as the types of deals change

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.