People: Matthew Crane, DBA, ASA, CPA, has joined MSG Accountants, Consultants, and Business Valuators as managing director in the firm’s New York City office … Christine Davis, CPA, CFF, CVA, has joined Bates Group as director of forensic accounting and financial crimes and will be based in the firm’s new San Francisco office … PKF O’Connor Davies LLP has hired Ralf Ruedenburg as principal and practice leader of the firm’s new German Desk specializing in audit, tax and advisory services, merger and acquisition advice, and tax structuring for U.S., German, Austrian, and Swiss clients … Walt Eckert, CPA, CVA, has joined Carmel, Ind.-based Blue & Co. as a director in its Columbus, Ohio tax practice … Chicago-based UHY Advisors has named Steven McCarty as its new CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2019, succeeding longtime CEO Tony Frabotta, who will remain chairman; McCarty will look to expand the UHY footprint.

Firms: Valuation & Research Specialists (Athens, Greece) has opened a new office in Luxembourg to support its strategy of international growth; the firm provides advanced equity research and valuations as well as value-related advisory services … Centerville, Iowa-based TDT CPAs and Advisors has relocated its West Des Moines office to a new and larger space in the same vicinity … Friedman LLP is moving its headquarters from midtown to lower Manhattan, renting 44,767 square feet at 1 Liberty Plaza, which is in the heart of the New York City’s financial district … Henderson Hutcherson & McCullough (HHM), based in Chattanooga, Tenn., has acquired Grisham Wildman & Work (GWW), a Memphis, Tenn., firm that focuses on automobile dealerships; HHM’s employee total is now 155 … Newport Beach, Calif.-based Squar Milner will combine with Boas & Boas of San Francisco on Jan. 1, 2019; Boas & Boas specializes in high-end tax services and has over 10 professionals and staff who will relocate to Squar Milner’s San Francisco office … Richard T. DeSimone & Co. (Oak Brook, Ill.), a niche firm with a 50-year history of serving the automobile dealer industry, will merge with Selden Fox Ltd., also of Oak Brook … May, Cocagne and King PC, a Decatur, Ill.-based accounting and consulting firm, has acquired Sulaski & Webb CPAs, based in Bloomington, Ill.

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