The exit of David Knoch is the latest change at the growing and rapidly pivoting tax-focused IBD formerly known as HD Vest.

Rea & Associates merges in WJ Ubbing and Associates; Frank Hirth transitions its U.S. practice to Raich Ende Malter; and REDW adds Human Resources Experience.

CliftonLarsonAllen added Weil & Company, and Cherry Bekaert LLP expanded its digital advisory capabilities by buying Icimo LLC.

Eide Bailly, a Top 25 Firm based in Fargo, North Dakota, has added Platinum Consulting Group, a government and nonprofit consulting firm based in Fullerton, California, effective Feb. 3.

Nichols, Cauley & Associates LLC, a firm in Dalton, Georgia, has added the Morehouse Group, a firm based in the same city, expanding Nichols Cauley’s presence in North Georgia.

The Top 100 Firm has expanded its presence in New York by adding three downstate offices from another firm.

The Georgia-based accounting firm is expanding into the technology industry by acquiring an IT services firm in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta.

Carr, Riggs & Ingram has merged in Crabtree, Rowe & Berger; and EisnerAmper has added Horvath & Giacin.

The last several years have seen a “merger frenzy,” with small and midsize CPA firms (with annual revenues between $10 million and $24 million) getting acquired by larger CPA firms that have a strong brand and a track record of average to above average equity partner profitability.

Built Technologies, a provider of construction finance software, has acquired lienwaivers.io, a developer of lien waiver management and payment technology for commercial and residential construction.