4/23/2025 | Reuters
Accounting merger helps balance private-fee books
Buyout barons are wearing pocket protectors and green visors with their tailored suits. Baker Tilly, an accounting firm recently backed by private equity shop Hellman & Friedman, unveiled a plan to merge, opens new tab with rival Moss Adams in a $7 billion deal that would create the sixth-largest U.S. bean counter. Like much investment these days, it turns growing public market liabilities into private market assets.
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