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Booz Allen Hamilton has re-entered the commercial business with a renewed focus in the areas of energy, health and financial services. Booz Allen has tapped Executive Vice President Reggie Van Lee to head up the practice.

As the regulatory climate in Washington becomes more stringent, actions taken by lawmakers can now more than ever have far-reaching consequences on businesses’ future plans. Sensing the increased need for experts, FTI Consulting has acquired C2 Group, a bipartisan government relations lobbying firm, to help clients gain insight into the motivations of policy elites. Jackson Dunn, FTI’s head of public affairs, expects more firms to offer lobbying services down the line.

Daniel Mahler was recently appointed as A.T. Kearney’s Americas Lead. Mahler says the firm has kicked off a major three-year growth initiative, which if successful, could “close to double” the size of the Americas practice over the next six years.

Wayne Simmons and Keary Crawford are passionate about entrepreneurship, and helping small companies realize their growth goals. To that end, they started…

Having joined ACME Business Consulting just over a year ago from Deloitte, David Ehlen has already made a name for himself at the Portland- and Seattle-based firm, putting his extensive M&A experience to use at the helm of ACME’s new Transaction Service practice.

When Steve Lukens joined Grant Thornton from IBM a few years ago as its advisory services lead, his mission was to identify a roadmap to build out the firm’s advisory practice. His efforts paid off, as last year the firm saw 14.5 percent growth in its advisory practice.