People: Marshall & Stevens has named John Agogliati as managing director and practice leader of its Northeast Dispute Resolution and Litigation Support Practice. He’s in the firm’s New York City office … Nat Baldwin has been appointed director of intellectual property services Europe at Hilco Valuation Services LLC, part of Hilco Global, based in Northbrook, Ill. … Plante Moran has announced new partners, and among them is Chris Jenkins, who is in the firm’s Southfield, Mich., office … Krista Santino has joined Dallas-based Echelon Analytics as a director and will open a new office for the firm in Los Angeles … Crowe Horwath International has elected David Mellor as CEO effective April 1, 2018; he is former chief executive of Crowe Clark Whitehill and will succeed a retiring Kevin McGrath, who has served as CEO since 2012.

Firms: Morones Analytics (Portland, Ore.) is expanding its forensic accounting and business valuation services into new markets, including Seattle, San Francisco, and Honolulu … UHY LLP, with offices nationwide, opened its fourth Michigan office in Ann Arbor; it’s the fourth largest firm in the Great Lakes region … RKL LLP (Lancaster, Pa.) is up for an award as one of the “Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania”; winners will be published in the Central Penn Business Journal … Oklahoma-based HoganTaylor and Arkansas-based JPMS Cox will merge Jan. 1, 2018, and operate under the name HoganTaylor, with over 300 employees in four offices … PwC will launch ILC Legal, its first law firm in the U.S.; it will be in Washington, D.C.; it will help clients on international issues and guide them to other PwC services … Ocean Tomo LLC, the intellectual capital merchant bank, will collaborate with Sinofaith IP Group of China to provide IP advisory services to support monetization of these assets.

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