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'TIS THE SEASON FOR M&A

Grassi & Co. is merging in Pustorino, Puglisi & Co., another New York-based accounting firm, on January 1.

MNP, one of Canada’s largest chartered accounting firms, said it would merge with Mississauga, Ont.-based practice EvansMartin, effective Jan. 1, 2012.

In its strategy to expand its presence in the North/Northwest section of Houston, regional CPA and business advisory firm McConnell & Jones has acquired the practice of Adamson, Hood & Co.

Fiducial Business Centers, a provider of tax, bookkeeping and financial planning services in the U.S. said it has acquired Springfield, Ill.-based Funeral Directors of America and Funeral Management Services, for undisclosed terms.

MNP, one of the largest chartered accounting and consulting firms, said it would merge in Williams McGuire AML—a large anti-money laundering firm, effective January 1.

Global CPA and business advisory firm Grant Thornton is currently in negotiations to acquire Boston-based regional firm CCR, according to the Boston Business Journal.

Corporate acquisitions using overpriced shares of stock rarely do much to cushion the decline the shares eventually suffer, according to a new study.

Moss, Krusick & Associates has merged in the firm Dexter & Associates, expanding the firm’s presence in Orlando, Fla.

Grant Thornton said Monday the firm has acquired Computer Technology Associates’ Health Solutions division and, in a separate announcement, has also launched a Japan Business Group.

Sikich LLP has entered into a merger agreement with an Indianapolis-based accounting, tax and management consulting firm with the unusually punctuated name of Ent : Imler CPA, PC.

Nanavaty, Nanavaty & Davenport LLP, a CPA and business advisory firm based in Newtown, Conn., has merged in Ronald C. Chickering’s CPA firm, effective Nov. 1.

Wild, Maney & Resnick LLP has merged Stephen W. Irwin & Company CPAs into its firm in Long Island, effective Nov. 1.

All-female CPA firm Domachowski Kempisty & Salvatore has joined Tronconi Segarra & Associates, offering a new option for companies seeking a larger regional CPA firm in the upstate New York area.

CPA and business advisory firm Henry & Horne has acquired the Phoenix-based practice of Mazza, Spero, Hougham & Schultz, effective November 1.

CPA wealth management firm Glass Jacobson merged in OneSource Financial Services of Montgomery Village, Md., on Tuesday.

BDO USA has added the six partners and more than 60 staff members of the San Antonio-based accounting firm Carneiro, Chumney & Co., effectively merging in the firm and expanding BDO’s presence in Texas.

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