People: The Los Angeles Times has featured Karen Miles, CPA, ABV, managing director and leader in Houlihan Lokey’s global Corporate Valuation Advisory Services practice, as a “Banking and Finance Visionary” in the inaugural issue of its Banking and Finance magazine … Matthew Vold has joined Stout as a director in the firm’s intellectual property practice; he is based in Chicago and has over 17 years of experience providing consulting services to clients in the areas of intellectual property valuation and disputes, business valuation, complex commercial disputes, and transfer pricing.

Firms: Chicago-based Baker Tilly has launched a new business interruption claims calculation platform called Quantum for the commercial insurance market … To accommodate a recent expansion, Knight Rolleri Sheppard CPAs LLP has executed a long-term lease for just under 9,000 square feet of office space in Fairfield, Conn.; the accounting and consulting business will occupy the entire fifth floor of the building … Charlottesville, Va.-based Hantzmon Wiebel will move into new offices this fall but will remain in downtown Charlottesville; the new space provides a smaller footprint, an open floor plan to further foster collaboration, and flex space to provide capacity for team members to work from home or in the office.

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