Mergers and Acquisitions
Southern California Accounting Firm Acquires Castle & Co.
Steve Castle, an established CPA with a broad range of clients from Phoenix to Seattle, has joined Haskell & White as its newest tax partner. He will work out of the firm’s Irvine, Calif., headquarters and perform a variety of business consulting and ...
CBIZ Acquires Pension Plan Consultant The Cottonwood Group
Founded in 2006, Cottonwood provides pension plan consulting, actuarial and investment services for institutional pension plans, retirement funds, endowment funds and foundations. Cottonwood has 15 employees and recorded approximately $3.1 million in ...
Accounting Firm Porte Brown Merges with Alliant Advisors
Both firms are in the process of contacting clients to inform them of the change and answer questions they may have about the transition.
BDO Acquires California Accounting Firm CEA, LLP
BDO will maintain both its existing San Diego office in La Jolla and the previous CEA office in Carlsbad. Lee Duran, Assurance Managing Partner for BDO’s existing San Diego office, will maintain that role in the combined San Diego practice and Mark ...
Ryan Tax Firm Acquires TransAmerican Asset Servicing Group
A key strategic component in the transaction is TransAmerican’s proven proprietary workflow technology system for efficient management of the entire lifecycle for identifying lost holders and reuniting them with their property.
Accounting Firm KFMR Katz Ferraro McMurtry P.C. Joins CliftonLarsonAllen
The accounting firm of Katz Ferraro McMurtry P.C. (KFMR) has joined the professional services firm CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA), effective November 1, 2015.
Marcum LLP Acquires Chicago Accounting Firm Frost Ruttenberg
The transaction marks the first entry into the Midwest market for Marcum, which has 17 other U.S. offices on the East and West Coasts, plus six abroad. Twenty-one Frost shareholders and principals and 90 professional staff have joined Marcum.
Ryan Acquires EnerTax Consultants
Severance tax is incurred when natural resources are extracted (“severed”) from the earth within a taxing jurisdiction. While crude oil and natural gas comprise the majority of severance tax collections in most jurisdictions, other resources such as ...