People: Shelley A. Brown has been named principal in the Forensic, Litigation and Valuation group of New York firm PKF O’Connor Davies … Marina Gentile has joined WithumSmith+Brown of Princeton, N.J., as senior manager of the International Services Group and the Forensic and Valuation Services Group … Brad Kussow has returned to the Milwaukee firm Schenck SC to lead its transaction advisory services as managing director … Margery Piercey has joined Marcum’s Boston office as the partner-in-charge and will also serve as a member of the firm’s executive committee … Linda Trugman, principal at Trugman Valuation Associates, has been appointed to the Business Valuation Resource Panel of The Appraisal Foundation.

Firms: Expanding into the New England market, the Texas-based HSSK has merged with the Livermore Consulting Group, a full-service valuation and litigation support group based in Bedford, N.H. … Reinsel Kuntz Lesher, one of Pennsylvania's leading regional accounting firms, has acquired GTM Risk Management of Radnor, Pa., and now will operate under the name RKL Risk Management LLC … The Houston Business Journal honored Sikich LLP as one the best places to work … Milwaukee-based Wipfli, one of the leading firms in the USA, has joined the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the globe’s largest trade association representing the digital asset and currency industries with the mission to promote the acceptance and use of digital assets and blockchain-based technologies.

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