People: John-Henry Eversgerd and Fiona Hansen have left PPB Advisory to launch FTI Consulting’s Australian valuation practice … Jonathan Marks has joined Chicago-based Baker Tilly Virchow Krause as a partner in the firm’s specialized forensic litigation valuation services consulting practice … Casey Karlsen has joined BerryDunn as a senior business valuation analyst in the firm’s Portland, Maine, office … Jonathan Jackson is the new executive director at the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA), replacing Pam Bailey, who retired after 15 years in that post.

Firms: Allinial Global has announced that LJ Soldinger Associates of Deer Park, Ill., has joined the accounting association … Louisville, Ky.-based MCM CPAs & Advisors has joined with Kramer Consulting Inc. (KCI) of Crestwood, Ky., provider of outsourced IT consulting services, to form a new affiliate organization, MCM Kramer Technology Solutions … Antares Group of Conyers, Ga., will acquire the Franchise Group with Canton, Mass.-based Gray Gray & Gray; the two firms are renowned for their work with restaurant franchisees and the combined group will operate under the Antares Group name … New York-based EisnerAmper will partner with CENTRL, a risk and compliance technology company … The latest expansion into western Canada for Toronto, Ontario-based Collins Barrow National is a merger of Collins Barrow Vancouver, Wolrige Mahon and CW Group … Englewood, Colo.-based Richey May & Co. has acquired two IT consulting firms, Arrow Partnership and Corporate Blue … Chicago-based Baker Tilly Virchow Krause and Houston-based MiddletonRaines+Zapata intend to merge by the end of the year.

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