MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

CBIZ: Spanning 2 Rollup Eras in 2 Centuries

CBIZ, once known as Century Business Services,  started with a “rapacious appetite” for acquisitions. Now it’s the appetizer.

By CPA Trendlines Research
Special Report

The company that helped pioneer Wall Street-backed accounting consolidation in the 1990s is set to be absorbed by today’s private-capital version of the same idea.

MORE Special Report on the CBIZ-Grant Thornton Deal: 

  1. Fatal Attraction: How the Marcum Deal Set Up CBIZ for the Grant Thornton Takeover
  2. CBIZ Tells Grant Thornton No, No, No, Before Saying Yes
  3. Grant Thornton Flexes PE Muscle in CBIZ Deal
  4. CBIZ: Spanning 2 Rollup Eras in 2 Centuries
  5. $55 a Share: Who Won, Who Lost in CBIZ’s 29-Year Rollup
  6. CPA PE Deal Tracker™: The Consolidator Gets Consolidated

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Twenty-seven years ago, a rollup called Century Business Services was buying accounting firms with what its own mergers chief called a “rapacious appetite.” Today it goes by a different name — CBIZ. And on July 28, it agreed to be bought.