Private equity

The Top 50 Firm based in Cleveland is the latest to receive a private equity investment, in this case from Lovell Minnick Partners.

Private equity firm Further Global has taken a minority stake in the Top 25 Firm.

The Top 25 Firm is expanding in Connecticut by adding the Woodbridge-based accounting, consulting and tax firm.

The private equity-backed platform is adding Pasadena, California-based Lucas Horsfall.

The PE-backed accounting business has completed the acquisition of tax prep, planning, advisory and accounting firm Wiener and Garg in Rockville, Maryland.

Private equity may bring valuable, if not entirely welcome, changes to the accounting profession.

Beyond private equity lie a host of other acquirers and accounting firm structures — and not all of them will be good for the profession.

Prosecutors alleged Robert Brockman controlled Point and used it to engage in the largest tax-evasion scheme by an individual in U.S. history.

Prosperity Partners, a private equity-backed firm in Chicago, has completed the acquisition of Detroit-based Cendrowski Corporate Advisors.

The Regional Leader firm based in Jackson, Tennessee, has received a strategic investment from Copley Equity Partners LLC.