People: Mark Hayden joined Houlihan Lokey as a managing director in the firm’s dispute resolution consulting practice in Los Angeles ... Henry Koziol has been named managing director of Buffalo, N.Y.-based Freed Mazick CPAs, replacing Timothy McPoland, who will become a director focusing on business development ... Sarah Krom, managing partner of SKC and Co., is the new president of the New Jersey Society of CPAs, the youngest person to hold that position and the third woman ... Eric Lee, principal and Phoenix practice leader in the consulting services division at Keegan, Linscott & Kenon, earned the Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor certificate from AIRA ... Mark S. Warshavsky, partner-in-charge of the business valuation and litigation services group at Gettry Marcus CPA, P.C., received the 2017 Thomas R. Porter Lifetime Achievement Award from NACVA at its annual conference in Chicago.

Firms: Alvarez & Marsal announced the opening of an office in Stockholm, Sweden, with Christer Johansson, Christer Wiberg, and Taus Wolfsberg joining as managing directors ... Michigan City, Ind.-based accounting firm CLH is celebrating 25 years in business ... Columbia, Md.-based Evergreen Advisors announced the acquisition of Patuxent Valuation Group, with Patuxent co-founder Patrick Lowry named a managing director at Evergreen ... Marcum LLP won a “Corporate Citizen of the Year” award from Long Island Business News to recognize its Marcum Foundation ... RubinBrown of St. Louis launched a new platform for its wealth advisory services at rubinbrownwealthadvisors.com ... Sax LLP added the team from HMK Associates of Morristown, N.J., to its Clifton, N.J., headquarters.

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