BDO Dunwoody LLP and MDKS Announce Merger
News Release
June 24, 2009
Kitchener, ON: BDO Dunwoody LLP is pleased to announce their merger with MDKS, a Waterloo-area accounting firm, effective July 1, 2009. The combined practice will operate under the BDO Dunwoody LLP name.
McMane Dunkel Kingston and Stranz LLP and MDKS Solutions Inc. make up the firm. Their clients vary from owner-managed entrepreneurial businesses to significant community-oriented non-profit organizations. The office consists of four partners, Wayne Dunkel, Rick Kingston, Michael Stranz and Lloyd Wright and a staff of 29 personnel.
This merger will double the size of BDO’s presence in Waterloo Region with a total of 90 professionals including 10 Partners, 2 Associates, 23 senior managers and managers and 55 staff operating out of offices in Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge.
“MDKS takes pride in their high level of client service”, says Jim Harper, Waterloo Region Managing Partner. “They have a highly complementary style with us at BDO, and we’ll have a significant increase in our tax practice, IT Solutions practice and health care practices.
Wayne Dunkel of MDKS agrees. “We believe there are a number of benefits resulting from the synergy of merging our firms. We will have access to an expanded talent pool that is as committed to the Waterloo Region as we are, as well as access to a world-wide network.”
The new BDO Waterloo Region team will offer a wide variety of Accounting and Advisory services including Assurance, Taxation, IT Solutions and Risk and Financial Advisory services to a multitude of area-based clients.
About BDO Dunwoody LLP
BDO Dunwoody LLP is an entrepreneurially-spirited accounting and advisory firm. As Canada’s dominant firm serving mid-sized businesses with more than 95 offices nationwide, BDO has the size and strength to present clients with a full range of comprehensive professional services. BDO Dunwoody provides clients with access to the advisors around the globe as a Member Firm of BDO International, which has more than 20,000 professionals in over 100 countries.
BDO International is a worldwide network of public accounting firms, called BDO Member Firms. Each BDO Member Firm is an independent legal entity in its own country. The network is coordinated by BDO Global Coordination B.V., incorporated in The Netherlands, with its statutory seat in Eindhoven (trade register registration number 33205251) and with an office at Boulevard de la Woluwe 60, 1200 Brussels, Belgium, where the International Executive Office is located.
About MDKS
Established in 1994 as a local firm of Chartered Accountants, McMane & Dunkel was co-founded by Robert McMane and Wayne Dunkel. The firm was designed to provide business advisory services to owner managed enterprises. By 2000, Rick Kingston, Michael Stranz and Lloyd Wright joined the firm as partners to create the firm now known as McMane Dunkel Kingston & Stranz, LLP, as well as MDKS Solutions Group Inc.
For further information please contact:
Locally:
Jim Harper
Waterloo Region Managing Partner
519.576.5220 or jharper@bdo.ca
Nationally:
Gordon Lee
Director, Marketing & Communications
416-369-3050 or glee@bdo.ca
