We asked a number of experts in the field to share their thoughts on what 2016 will hold for firms looking to combine.

CliftonLarsonAllen is merging in Bruner Cox, an accounting firm in Northeast Ohio, effective June 1, the latest in a string of mergers for CLA.

Grant Thornton’s Canadian firm has merged in Oulette & Associates, a firm based in Grand Falls, New Brunswick.

Mowery & Schoenfeld LLC has merged in a fellow Illinois CPA firm, Gary Hart & Associates, Ltd., effective Jan. 1, 2016.

R. Waidler & Associates P.C., a firm in Boulder, Colo., will become part of Top 100 firm Eide Bailly LLP, effective Feb. 1.

The heads of three CPA firms, EisnerAmper, Grassi & Co., and GBQ, discussed some of the trends they have been seeing in the profession, and the struggles they have experienced at their firms at the Winning Is Everything conference in Las Vegas last week.

Top 100 firm Henry & Horne, LLP has acquired a sole practitioner’s firm, Centerpoint Advisors, effective January 1.

WeiserMazars has acquired Lion & Company CPAs, an accounting and advisory firm in Syosset, N.Y., expanding WeiserMazars’ Entrepreneurial Services and Health Care Consulting services.

Holman Frenia Allison merges in John J. Maley CPAs; GHD CPAs & Advisors joins Cohen & Company; Wagner Eubank & Nichols merges in Midwikis & Granger.

Weaver is merging in Hereford, Lynch, Sellars & Kirkham, PC, effective March 1, 2016, building Weaver’s governmental practice.