A roundup of recent accounting firm mergers and acquisitions

KLR has merged with Freshman & Ferraro PC. The merger is part of KLR’s strategic plan to strengthen its international tax practice in Boston.

Top 100 Firm Cherry Bekaert has acquired Thomas, Knight, Trent, King and Company.

Top 100 Firm O’Connor Davies makes its first acquisition of the year with the addition of Daniel J. McMahon Company.

Dustin Hostetler, founder of Flowtivity, will join Boomer Consulting, Inc., as a shareholder and will lead the Lean Six Sigma consulting division.

Ryan has acquired Taxaccord, a tax automation services firm that focuses on multinational corporations.

Top 100 Firm, Kennedy and Coe kicked off the New Year by finalizing its merger with Matson and Isom and followed up with a name change. The Loveland, Colo.-based firm officially sealed the deal on January 1, and the newly combined firm, which primarily serves the food and agriculture industry, changed its name to K•Coe Isom.

Top 100 Firm Wipfli LLP has acquired the Philadelphia-based firm Elko & Associates Ltd and the Helena, Mont.-based firm, Galusha, Higgins & Galusha.

Firm name change, a merger and volunteerism award.

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A roundup of accounting firm mergers and acquisitions from the past month.

Johnson, Lauder & Savidge LLP, and Esserman & Pelter LLP will merge their accounting practices.

A roundup of accounting firm mergers and acquisitions

Dube & Cuttini Chartered Accountants, of Kitchener, Canada, is merging with BDO Canada. The combination is to take effect on Jan. 1, and Dube & Cuttini will operate under the BDO name.

Gallina LLP is expanding to Utah by combining with the public accounting firm Leverich Group in Midvale, near Salt Lake City.

Companies planning for a merger or acquisition have various issues to consider as they prepare for the transaction. One of the issues is golden parachutes.

New York accounting firm O’Connor Davies has launched a new Risk Advisory Group with the help of two veteran accountants formerly with Rothstein Kass, which is now part of KPMG.

KPMG International said it realized record revenues globally of US$24.82 billion for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2014, a 6.3 percent increase over the previous year in terms of local currency.

Top 100 Firm McGladrey LLP has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Fesnak LLP in Philadelphia.

M&A volume is expected to be significantly higher than in recent years, according to a new survey, with 82 percent pursuing deals in 2015 vs. 63 percent in 2014.