People: David Ethridge is a new managing director in PricewaterhouseCoopers’s deal practice group in New York City and will be developing strategic and capital-raising plans for private and public companies … Alex Krasnomowitz joined Smolin Lupin to support the firm’s strategy for continued growth in its Forensic and Litigation Support practice.

Firms: BizEquity was recognized as one of the “Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America” by Entrepreneur magazine’s inaugural Entrepreneur 360 Awards … CliftonLarsonAllen acquired the Pittsburgh, Pa., firm KFMR Katz Ferraro McMurtry PC on November 1 … The Miami firm Kabat, Schertzer, De La Torre, Taraboulos & Co. merged with Roth, Jonas and Mittelberg … Marcum merged with Illinois-based accounting firm Frost, Ruttenberg & Rothblatt PC on November 1 … The Louisville, Ky.-based Mountjoy Chilton Medley announced its intention to merge in the Cincinnati firm Cooney Faulkner & Stevens, effective Jan. 1, 2016 … Quad-C Management, a middle-market private equity fund, has invested in VMG Health, a Dallas-based financial valuation and advisory firm for the healthcare transaction market. According to the Wall Street Journal, this investment is based on the “belief that the increasingly complex regulatory environment for health care heightens the need for the company’s financial valuation and advisory services” … In the annual Texas Lawyer magazine’s “Best of” poll, Houston-based The Hancock Firm was voted No. 1 Business Valuation Firm and End-to-End Litigation Firm in 2015. And, for the second consecutive year, the firm also was welcomed into the Hall of Fame.