Here are this week’s local business certifications, celebrations, mergers and recognition.

DIVERSITY

The U.S. Small Business Administration certified St. Charles, Missouri, telecommunications and IT infrastructure provider TIES Communications , as a Women-Owned Small Business. The telecommunications and IT infrastructure provider, better known as Tiestech, was founded in 2001.

MERGER

Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice , headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, merged with Wisconsin-based Corneille Law Group . The firm’s local offices are in St. Louis, Missouri, and in Belleville and Edwardsville, Illinois. The combined firm will operate under the Baker Sterchi name and add offices in Madison and Green Bay, Wisconsin.

MILESTONE

Atomic Revenue based in Clayton, Missouri, celebrated its

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