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925 Highland Pointe Drive, Suite 450
Roseville, CA 95678
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NEWS RELEASE
GALLINA LLP ACQUIRES FIRM IN SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
ROSEVILLE, CA, June 26, 2014: GALLINA LLP (GALLINA) has announced the acquisition of
Mellon Johnson Reardon, LLP of Ontario, CA (MJR). The people of MJR, and its six partners, will be
joining GALLINA effective July 1, 2014.
“This move furthers GALLINA’s vision to be a nationally recognized firm while also creating everincreasing career opportunities for the talented people of both firms,” said Larry Taylor, Managing
Partner at GALLINA. “It also expands GALLINA’s audit, tax, and specialty consulting practices
while increasing our firm’s presence in Southern California.”
Steve Spears, Managing Partner of MJR added, “we’re looking forward to the opportunities this
combination will afford to our people, and our Inland Empire and Southern California based
clients. From the moment we began talking I felt there were exceptional synergies in our client
base, approach to service, as well as culture.”
Allan D. Koltin, CEO of Koltin Consulting Group who provided counsel to both firms on the merger
commented, “for GALLINA, this merger represents their continued desire to become one of the
western region's dominant firms and its initial expansion into southern California. GALLINA is
blessed to have great leadership, a one-firm culture, and a track record of successfully integrating
mergers. They allow the entrepreneur to thrive but also provide a lot of the industry and service
line expertise that dynamic and growing local firms need to compete.”
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“On the other side, MJR is one of the Inland Empire's most successful and talented firms. They had
numerous larger firms approach them over the years, but with GALLINA it was 'love at first sight.'
MJR represents a new breed of firms when it comes to mergers taking place in the profession
today. In an industry where mergers are taking place almost daily due to succession planning
issues, it's refreshing to see one that is purely strategic as well as client and people focused. MJR
has had excellent growth and profitability and is a high performing group of partners and staff.
They could have stayed as an independent firm and continued to thrive but realized the merger
would provide them with even greater opportunities for their clients and their people.”
Larry Taylor, CPA
Managing Partner
GALLINA LLP
Steve Spears, CPA
Managing Partner
Mellon Johnson Reardon, LLP
ABOUT MJ&R
MJR's regional focus encompasses the counties of Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and
Orange. Located in Ontario, CA, MJR has provided tax, assurance, and advisory services to private
companies, manufacturers, distributors, construction and real estate clients, professional services
firms, dealerships, agri-businesses and non-profits since 1955. The partners at MJR including
Steve Spears, Greg Barragar, Chuck Wessman, Lee Gardner, Krysta Krall, and Tamara Sipos, will
transition into the partner group at GALLINA. MJR will remain at their current location at 3270
Inland Empire Boulevard, Suite 300, Ontario, CA 91764.
Their phone number will remain
unchanged at 909-985-7286. For more information about MJR, visit www.mjrcpas.com.
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ABOUT GALLINA LLP:
GALLINA is a full-service firm with niches in construction, real estate, agribusiness, government,
nonprofit, manufacturing, distribution, international tax, specialty tax credits, and employee
benefit audit in addition to offering services to a broad range of other businesses and individuals.
Headquartered in Roseville, CA, the firm has been opening doors to success for their clients since
1972. GALLINA has grown to a solid team of 46 partners and nearly 275 staff members who have
a wide range of experience in accounting, auditing, tax planning, succession planning, claims
consulting, and business management consulting. GALLINA serves its clients through offices in Las
Vegas, Novato, Ontario, Rancho Cordova, Reno, Roseville, San Bruno, San Jose, Seattle, and Walnut
Creek. The firm’s client base spans the Western Regional states, and services are provided to
businesses throughout the United States and beyond through its membership in TIAG (The
International Accounting Group), an alliance of more than 110 independent accounting firms
around the world. For more information about GALLINA visit www.gallina.com.
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