People: David Smith, ASA, CFA, has joined Memphis-based Mercer Capital and will lead the firm’s Houston office; he formerly led the Houston valuation practice of HSSK; Mercer also has offices in Dallas and Nashville … Elizabeth Ciccone, ASA, Esq., director and member of the Business Valuation and Litigation Support Advisory and Consulting Practice at Marcum LLP, has joined the University of New Haven (Connecticut) faculty; she will teach business valuation and valuation theory to graduate students within the law school program … Anthony J. Nitti, CPA, MST, has joined RubinBrown LLP as a partner in its Tax Services Group; he’s a well-known expert on the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act and conducted a session on Section 199A at the 2018 AICPA Forensic and Valuation Services Conference.
Firms: New York-based Anchin Block & Anchin LLP added to its advisory services with a new subsidiary: Anchin Digital Risk Solutions LLC … Cloud technology firm Tactical Cloud of Costa Mesa, Calif., will become part of Fargo, N.D.-based Eide Bailly’s NetSuite practice on February 25; NetSuite offers cloud-based business management software … Prager Metis CPAs expanded into Nevada with the opening of its first office there, located in Las Vegas … Several accounting firms were named to the “Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For” list, including Plante Moran (No. 21), Deloitte (No. 26), EY (No. 34), KPMG (No. 36), PwC (No. 44), and Crowe (No. 68) … San Ramon, Calif.-based Armanino launched a blockchain practice offering a full range of specialized services … Whelan Barsky & Associates joined with Owings Mills, Md.-based Glass Jacobson … Bodine Perry, with offices across Ohio and Florida, has acquired Adams & Harper, a CPA firm on the east coast of Florida (Orange Park) … Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Boulay has merged with Anspach & Associates PLLC of Naples, Fla.; the merged entity will be known as Boulay and will continue to operate in Naples.
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