People: Cyndi Livermore joins William E. Howell, a Manchester, N.H., company, as director of business valuation … Gerald Borelli and Michele LiPuma join Lougen Valenti of Amherst, N.Y., as principals after their firms merged … Michael French is the new managing director of Wilmington, Del., firm Belfint, Lyons & Shuman, succeeding Barry Crozier, who led the firm for 21 years and will stay on as an advisor … Megan McFarland is the new office managing partner at the Hein & Associates Dallas location … Kent Reed, Murphy Business Financial Corp., was bestowed the Georgia Association of Business Brokers’ most prestigious award, The Multi-Million Dollar Club … Denny Schleper is the new CEO of CliftonLarsonAllen, succeeding Gordy Viere, who will remain as chief officer of wealth advisory … Larry Schultz is the new office managing partner at the Hein & Associates Orange County, Calif., location … Brad Shaw is the new managing director at Blue & Co. LLC and will be based out of Columbus, Ohio.

Firms: The Amherst, N.Y., firm Lougen Valenti Bookbinder & Weintraub LLP merged with Borelli & LiPuma LLP … Grant Thornton UK acquired a boutique firm, Recovery Cost Auditing Group, based in Lancashire, which specializes in retrospective forensic audits in the energy and telecom industries … Two south Florida firms Mallah, Furman & Co. PA and Levin, Silvey, Zelko & Mackey PA merged on January 1 … The Long Island accounting, auditing, tax and business advisory services firm Nussbaum Yates Berg Klein & Wolpow LLP merged with a New York City practice focusing on high-net-worth clients, Want & Ender CPA PC … Two southern California firms, Vicenti, Lloyd & Stutzman LLP and Frankeberger Vausher + Co. CPAs have merged.