Brian Surratt was elected managing partner at Lavine, Lofgren, Morris & Engelberg, San Diego. Surratt joined the firm in 2003 and worked there for 10 years before venturing out to establish Aztec Accountancy Group, Inc., and then returning to LLME in 2019 as a tax partner. In other firm news, Erin Carlson and Victor Shlionsky were elevated to the tax partnership.
Peter Rodwick was hired as a tax partner in the financial services practice at CohnReznick, Los Angeles.
Armanino, San Ramon, added 16 new partners: Babette Campbell, business management, Los Angeles; Alex van Dillen, consulting, Dallas; Clare Porreca, tax, Philadelphia; Don Johnson and Erin Barragar and Lisa Boyd, tax, Irvine, California; Florence Vo, tax, Dallas; Jeff Laufman, tax, Woodland Hills; Jessie Singh, tax, West Los Angeles; Naz Bhangal, tax, San Ramon; Payal Gupta, tax, San Jose, California; Stephanie Shorkley and Thomas La, tax, San Ramon; Elizabeth Vu, trust, Los Angeles; Kyle Dodwell, trust, St. Louis; and Yamei Zhai, trust, San Jose.
