People: Robert Allen, CFA, ABV, has been promoted to a partner at Fort Worth, Texas-based Whitley Penn; he is forensic, litigation and valuation managing director … Jamie Burress, CFA, CPA/AVB, has joined Houston-based MaloneBailey as valuation managing director to lead the firm’s new corporate valuation consulting practice; she has over two decades of experience performing valuations for a wide range of purposes.

Firms: Dubuque, Iowa-based Honkamp has added the St. Louis metro area firm Schowalter & Jabouri, a full-service attest, tax, and business advisory firm with more than 30 employees … Naperville, Ill.-based Sikich will acquire the federal government practice of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP … New York City-based EisnerAmper will acquire Raleigh, N.C.-based Hughes Pittman & Gupton, a firm with more than a dozen partners and a staff of almost 100 who provide services such as advisory, outsourcing, audit and accounting, tax, and risk and governance.

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