People: Jason Pierce, a business valuation principal at Edelstein & Co. LLP (Boston), has been recognized with USA 500 Club’s Biggest Giver Award, which recognizes a member who has gone above and beyond to refer and cultivate business for other members … A number of practitioners in the business valuation discipline of the American Society of Appraisers are the recipients of the ASA’s Rising Stars Award for 2018: Nicolas Ballian, a director in the São Paulo office of Duff & Phelps and part of the Valuation Advisory Services practice; Nicholas Janiga, a partner at HealthCare Appraisers in Denver; Fawn Romero, an associate at Prairie Capital Advisors; and Megan Salehli, a principal at Asterion Consulting.

Firms: Seattle-based Moss Adams is combining with AsTech Consulting as of November 1 to improve its cybersecurity consulting practice; 13 professionals from AsTech will join Moss Adams … San Francisco-based BPM LLP will combine with Kramer & Olsen Accountancy Corp. of Santa Ana, Calif.; all 14 Kramer & Olsen employees will stay at their current location and will operate under BPM, which has approximately 470 personnel and 40 partners … Pittsford, N.Y.-based The Bonadio Group will enter the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, market by opening an office in Irving, Texas; Jeff Wexler, a Bonadio partner, will lead the office … Savannah, Ga.-based Hancock Askew & Co. and Brand Tax Group of Tampa, Fla., will merge; Hancock Askew will open an office in Tampa, Fla., in addition to offices in Savannah, Atlanta, and Miami, which house 100 employees.

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