People: Anneliese Scherer, CPA, has joined Fiske & Co. as the new forensic and valuation services manager; the firm is a boutique women-owned accounting, financial forensics, valuation, and litigation consulting firm … Andrew B. Frew, ASA, ABV, has joined Mercer Capital in its Houston office as a vice president; he has over 20 years of business valuation experience with businesses and business interests for financial reporting, gift and estate tax, corporate tax, corporate M&A, and employee stock ownership plan purposes.

Firms: New York-based EisnerAmper LLP is adding Minneapolis-based Lurie LLP, a firm with 24 partners and more than 200 employees who provide accounting, audit, tax planning, and wealth management services to clients in a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, professional services, technology, manufacturing, real estate, and more … Geffen Mesher of Portland, Ore., is adding Vierck & Rakoski CPAs PC of Vancouver, Wash. … Boston-based WilliamsMarston LLC has acquired Paradigm Advisory Group LLC of Atlanta, a boutique advisory firm that provides financial and accounting advisory solutions to private equity-backed and public companies.

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