People: Nancy Czaplinski, managing director in the Duff & Phelps Valuation Advisory Practice, will chair the Business Valuation Resource Panel (BVRP) in 2020; the panel is part of The Appraisal Foundation … Robert Valas, CPA/ABV, CFE, CGMA, will join Cullari Carrico (Fairfield, N.J.) as a partner … The following professionals have joined Valuation Research Corp. (VRC) in its various offices: Sarit Rapport, ASA, as vice president (New York City); Jeff Dugo as a senior appraiser, machinery and equipment (San Francisco); Nate Cassani as an associate (Boston); Mason Escherich as an analyst (San Francisco); Alexander Fratti as an associate (Princeton, N.J.); William Greenfield as an analyst (Princeton); Nicholas Klass as an analyst (Princeton); and Sean McIver as an associate (Boston).

Firms: A global investor consortium led by funds managed by Stone Point Capital and Further Global will acquire Duff & Phelps for $4.2 billion; the transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2020 … Winchester, Va.-based Yount Hyde & Barbour (YHB) has added Woodcock & Associates of Fredericksburg, Va., a firm that specializes in the construction industry; the deal adds 12 professionals to the YHB staff … Three firms have joined CPAmerica: Fremont, Calif.-based Greenstein Rogoff Olsen & Co.; Wayne, Pa.-based Stephano Slack; and Fond du Lac, Wis.-based Huberty & Associates; CPAmerica, an association of independent CPA firms, is a member of Crowe Global, which has members in more than 750 offices in more than 130 countries … Enterprise, Ala.-based Carr Riggs & Ingram has added Crabtree Rowe & Berger of Huntsville, Ala.

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