Decosimo Merging With Elliot Davis

Decosimo, the accounting firm which includes Nashville-based Decosimo Vaden, is merging with another firm, Elliott Davis, effective January 1, 2015. Veteran business manager Michael Vaden is Decosimo’s entertainment practice leader, bringing to the role more than 35 years of experience in financial/business management, tax expertise, royalty examinations/ analyses and accounting services. Vaden joined with Decosimo in 2008.

Michael Vaden

The combined firm, which will be known as Elliott Davis Decosimo, creates the region’s fifth largest accounting firm with total annual revenues of $108 million and more than 800 professionals and specialists in 17 offices across seven states – Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia – and the Cayman Islands. Shareholders of both firms approved the merger in a unanimous vote. Terms were not disclosed.

Rick Davis, Managing Shareholder of Elliott Davis, will lead the combined firm. Decosimo Managing Principal Nick Decosimo will serve on the Executive Committee, which will be comprised of representatives from both firms.