People: Katie Gilden, CPA/ABV/CFF, CFE, CVA, has been promoted to chief operating officer at Fiske and Co. (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.); she had been director of valuation, forensic, and litigation services at the firm, which she joined in 2009 … Deepa Menon, Level III Candidate, CFA designation, has been named lead managing director for CBIZ Valuation Group’s Dallas office.

Firms: The North American board of PKF International has launched PKF Advisory LLC, which combines the transaction advisory and valuation practices of six of its member firms: Berkowitz Pollack Brant, JLK Rosenberger, PKF Boston, PKF Mueller, PKF O’Connor Davies, and Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas, PC (PKF Texas); PKF International is a global association of independent firms … Chicago-based BDO USA is adding Las Vegas-based Piercy Bowler Taylor & Kern (PBTK) in a deal expected to close on July 1; PBTK has nine partners and 60 professionals in its Las Vegas; Reno, Nev.; and Salt Lake City offices … New York-based Mazars USA has opened a new Dallas office, the firm’s first in the state of Texas; recent hire Brad Leffler, CPA, will lead the office … Eaton Square, a cross-border M&A and capital services firm, has added offices in Maryland; Washington, D.C.; Virginia; and North Carolina with the addition of The CDI Group and Taylor Devine, who is the firm’s managing partner.

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