People: Andrew Bostian has joined BlumShapiro’s Newton, Mass., office as a manager in the firm’s consulting group … Bruce Darkes has joined the Pennsylvania-based firm, Reinsel Kuntz Lesher (RKL), as partner as a result of the recent merger with the firm he founded, Darkes, Peachey & Wilbert … Sean Denham has been promoted to office managing partner for Grant Thornton LLP’s Philadelphia practice … Jeff Faust and Irina Plevako, formerly with the accounting firm Berger Lewis, have joined the San Francisco firm Abbott, Stringham & Lynch … Steven Goldberg has joined Berdon LLP as a principal in its Financial Services Advisory practice in New York City … Jean Han has been named partner at Baker Tilly Virchow Krause’s New York City office … Alice Hilton has joined The Hancock Firm LLC based in Houston as its director of litigation … Sara Elizabeth Hyre will succeed Rob Wheeler as shareholder-in-charge of Clark Nuber’s tax department in Seattle … Garrett Shinn, Christine Yekel, and Christy Cardillo have been named partners at the Florida-based firm Shinn & Co.

Firms: SiliconIndia Magazine named Aranca, a financial research and analytics company in India, as the “2014 Company of the Year for IP and Valuation Services” … Florida Trend magazine has named Cross, Fernandez & Riley LLP one of the “Top Accounting Firms” in Florida … Seattle-based firm Clark Nuber PS was bestowed the 2014 Human Resources Innovation Award from the Leading Edge Alliance (LEA).