People: Heather Baranowski, CPA/ABV/CFF, MST, CVA, has been promoted to managing director at Cohen & Co.; she’s in the firm’s Pittsburgh office, and her primary focus is on providing business valuation and litigation support services within the area of family law … Bridget Triepke, CPA, has joined Houston-based Weaver as a director in the valuation services practice; she has over 15 years of healthcare valuation and transaction advisory experience and will help lead and expand the firm’s healthcare advisory services practice nationally.

Firms: Savannah, Ga.-based Hancock Askew & Co. LLP has acquired Becker CPA, PA, a Tampa, Fla., area tax and advisory practice … Milwaukee-based Wipfli LLP has acquired the Oliver Group of Louisville, Ky., an executive coaching and leadership development firm … Calgary-based MNP is adding in Bailey Kearney Ferguson of Wallaceburg, Ontario, a firm that provides accounting and tax services to clients throughout southwestern Ontario … CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA) is adding Salinas, Calif.-based Hayashi Wayland, a firm that has industry niches in agriculture, hospitality, wineries and vineyards, nonprofit organizations, and governmental agencies; the deal increases CLA’s California team to more than 700 people … Portland, Maine-based BerryDunn has opened a new office in San Juan, Puerto Rico; the firm has been operating there since 2019, so the local employees will have a new place to call home.

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