BPM, Long Beach firm call off merger
SANTA ROSA — Accounting and consulting firm Burr Pilger Mayer, which has an office in Santa Rosa, will no longer merge with a Long Beach-based accountancy, a combination that arguably would have created the largest such company based in California.
Neither San Francisco-based BPM nor Windes & McClaughry Accountancy Corp. disclosed why they called off the plan, first announced in September . It would have created a company with $100 million in revenue, 73 shareholders, 550 employees and 11 offices, according to a release. BPM’s last acquisition was the 2009 merger with Santa Rosa’s Andersen & Company, LLP.
“We are disappointed that we are not able to combine these two firms,” BPM managing partner Steve Mayer said in a written statement posted on Windes & McClaughry’s website on Friday. “Both organizations worked diligently toward the merger. We just came a little short of the goal line. We wish the Windes team the best and expect to continue to work together on client opportunities.”



