People: Judd Appel, ABV, has been named managing director and national leader of EisnerAmper’s Transaction Advisory Services Group; he has held roles including CFO and corporate development and offers 20 years of experience in transaction services and investment banking with blue-chip companies, leading mergers and acquisitions and connecting clients with institutional investors … Several new additions to the senior ranks at Valuation Research Corp. (VRC): In the New York City office, Eugene Wu (CEIV candidate), a former Grant Thornton director, joins as a senior vice president, specializing in the valuation of business enterprises, intangible assets, and liabilities for M&A, financial and tax reporting, and other strategic matters; in San Francisco, Huan Shu, formerly a vice president at Duff and Phelps, joins as a senior vice president, specializing in complex securities valuation for financial reporting and tax purposes; in Boston, Presiyan Lazarov, CFA, joins as vice president with over 15 years of experience in valuation advisory spanning from prerevenue startups to late-stage, middle-market companies for a variety of purposes; in San Francisco, Steven Nguyen, ASA, joins as vice president, machinery and equipment, after almost two decades with Duff & Phelps; and, in Princeton, Christopher M. Dougherty (FMVA candidate), formerly with KPMG and TD Bank, joins as vice president in the portfolio valuation group.

Firms: Florham Park, N.J.-based Wiss & Co. LLP has acquired Neidich & Co., an accounting firm in Mountainside, N.J., serving privately owned real estate companies … Lenkowski Lonergan & Co. LLP (Middlebury, Conn.) has added Mercik & Bolduc LLC (Enfield, Conn.); the combined firm will operate under the former’s name and will have nearly 20 employees including five partners in the two locations … Southington, Conn., firm Daigle, Smith & Chubet expands its accounting and advisory services through its merger with Mugford & DiBella LLC of New Britain, Conn.; the combined firm will be known as Mugford & DiBella LLC and will operate out of both locations … Whittlesey, a Connecticut-based accounting and advisory firm, has added Bova, Harrington & Associates, which will expand the firm’s footprint in Western Massachusetts.

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