Professional & Business Services

Washington and London – September 15, 2026 -- Delta Consulting Group, Inc. has acquired Osborne Partners Ltd., creating a combined advisory platform of 179 professionals across eight global offices. The transaction closed on August 14, 2026, though financial terms were not disclosed.

Combined firm operates from Washington, DC to Singapore

The merged entity maintains main offices in Washington, DC; New York; Toronto; Madrid; London; Mumbai; Dubai; and Singapore. Osborne Partners will operate during the transition period under the name Osborne Partners, A Delta Consulting Group Company.

Boulder, Colo. – September 15, 2026 -- State sales tax audits drag on for an average of 223 days and can stretch as long as 682 days, according to internal data released by tax compliance firm TaxValet, which has guided 38 clients through such audits.

TaxValet has managed $458,492 in historical tax exposure accumulated by clients before they joined the firm

Defending a single audit consumes more than 20 hours of expert support, TaxValet reported. The firm noted that 45 current clients switched directly from popular sales tax software providers after those tools failed to close compliance gaps.

Iselin, N.J. – September 15, 2026 -- Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP, a New Jersey law firm with more than a century of operation, has launched a fully redesigned website and rebranded its public-facing identity to Greenbaum Law.

Firm retires decades-old four-name-partner logo for simplified Greenbaum Law brand

The rebrand replaces the firm's longstanding visual identity with a new logo, color palette, modernized font, and a stylized graphical icon, while Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP remains the formal legal entity name. The changes are rolling out immediately across all firm communications and digital platforms.

Boston – September 14, 2026 -- H.I.G. Capital has completed a significant investment in Click Here Digital, a Baton Rouge-based performance marketing agency serving the automotive, legal, and government sectors, through one of its affiliates.

H.I.G. Capital deploys capital from its $75 billion platform into digital marketing

H.I.G., a global alternative investment firm managing $75 billion in capital, backed Click Here as part of its middle-market equity strategy. The firm's equity funds typically target management buyouts, recapitalizations, and corporate carve-outs across manufacturing and service businesses.

Ettlingen – September 14, 2026 -- German restructuring advisor Ulrich Kammerer of UKMC has outlined six concrete criteria executives can use within the first sixty minutes of a consultation to distinguish qualified crisis advisors from those offering false reassurance during liquidity emergencies.

Kammerer, who has personally overseen more than 400 insolvency and restructuring cases over the past decade and secured over €300 million in assets during those proceedings, warns that choosing the wrong advisor risks missed legal deadlines and personal liability for managing directors. He previously led an IT services company with roughly 700 employees through a protective shield procedure, emerging debt-free after eight months and one week.

San Diego – September 13, 2026 -- Only 9% of 1,000 C-suite executives surveyed by the Return on AI Institute report realizing significant value from generative AI, a gap Scaled Agile, Inc. (SAI) aims to address at its SAFe & AI Summit San Diego, running September 14-18 at the Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Center.

Survey data exposes an operating-model failure, not a technology gap

SAI, provider of the SAFe business agility framework, points to the Return on AI Institute findings as evidence that the barrier to AI ROI is organizational rather than technical. The company argues that enterprises lack the operating models needed to govern AI initiatives and convert pilot projects into measurable business outcomes.

Vancouver, BC – September 13, 2026 -- Time Out and Rival Technologies have won a 2026 Esomar Award for Excellence in Global Research, announced at the Esomar Congress in Valencia, Spain.

Global City Survey engaged 18,500 people across nearly 60 countries

The award-winning project surveyed participants in 45 languages, generating approximately 1.6 million data points and an 86% completion rate. The research underpins Time Out's Best Cities ranking, a decade-long global editorial initiative built on resident feedback and Time Out's journalism.

Rival's conversational platform replaced traditional survey formats

Time Out partnered with Rival Technologies to shift the Global City Survey from a standard survey format to a mobile-first, chat-like research experience while preserving the scale needed for a global program spanning dozens of markets.

Tampa – – September 13, 2026 -- Greg DuPey, owner of a Pillar To Post Home Inspectors franchise in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, has been named a 2026 Franchisee of the Year by the International Franchise Association (IFA), the trade group's highest honor for individual franchise owners.

DuPey grew his territory nearly fourfold since buying an existing franchise in 2012

DuPey, a former foodservice operations executive, and his wife Theresa acquired the Morrisville franchise in 2012. Under their leadership, the business expanded to nearly four times its original size, according to Pillar To Post.

DuPey rebuilt the business after a severe roof-fall injury left him in a body cast

Shortly after taking ownership, DuPey suffered a serious back injury falling from a roof. He continued working through recovery, and the couple steered the franchise through the injury and subsequent economic downturns while continuing to scale operations.

St. Louis – September 13, 2026 -- Esquire magazine has featured T.A.C.T. franchise owner David Lesaffre in a profile titled "The Trauma Cleaners," documenting his expansion into three franchise territories amid rising demand for professional biohazard and hoarding remediation services.

Franchisee builds three-location operation across two states

Lesaffre, operating alongside Leanne, expanded his T.A.C.T. franchise footprint to include T.A.C.T. 48, T.A.C.T. AZ, and T.A.C.T. Fort Worth, according to the company. The Esquire feature examines how the pair navigated high-stakes scenarios spanning biohazard recovery, vehicle decontamination, and large-scale hoarding management since completing training in St. Louis.

Richardson, Texas – September 13, 2026 -- Trey Thomas-Piazza, the first-ever franchisee of Service Experts, has been named a 2026 Franchisee of the Year by the International Franchise Association (IFA), marking a milestone for the residential HVAC company's year-old franchise system.

Service Experts launched franchising in 2025 after three decades as a corporate-owned business

Thomas-Piazza, who previously served as General Manager of the company's Tulsa market after years in maintenance, installation and operations leadership, became the system's inaugural franchisee when the program launched. His transition gave Service Experts an early test case for refining franchise infrastructure while maintaining continuity for employees, customers and vendor partners in the market he already managed.