The consultancy firm outlined its commitment to developing a comprehensive plan for sustainable development in collaboration with the government
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Cinven agrees to make a significant strategic investment in Grant Thornton UK alongside its Partners
International private equity firm, Cinven, today announces that it has reached an agreement to make a majority investment in Grant Thornton UK (‘Grant Thornton’ or ‘the Company’), one of the leading diversified professional services firms offering audit, tax and advisory services in the UK.
Riverside Partners, LLC ("Riverside"), a Boston-based private equity firm, announced the strategic combination of Sequoia Biotech Consulting ("Sequoia"), a leading life sciences service provider helping organizations to scale rapidly and to deliver high-quality therapeutics, and Syner-G BioPharma Group ("Syner-G"), a leading provider of integrated regulatory and biopharmaceutical development services.
As it seeks new ways to grow its market share in the British market, audit and advisory firm Grant Thornton UK is reported to be exploring a sale of a stake to private equity backers. The news follows a similar move by the professional services network’s US member in the spring of 2024.
South Wales’ top 200 privately-owned businesses are going from strength to strength despite recent economic challenges. A new study from Grant Thornton suggests the firms have increased overall turnover by 19% to reach £11 billion.
Building on significant expansion of its Managed Services business across the globe, PwC is now following suite in the Middle East with the plan to add over 1,000 staff to the arm’s current headcount in the region.
Global IT consulting company Accenture has unveiled its latest strategic investment, this time providing money to spatial computing company Talespin. The exact amount of the investment was not disclosed.
MSD Partners, the investment firm that grew out of Michael Dell’s family office, has agreed to take a 50% stake in digital consulting firm West Monroe
Not many people get to put senior roles at both Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and McKinsey on their resumes. The investment bank has snapped up Kevin Sneader just six months after he was ousted from the management consultancy’s top job.
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) has played a critical role as China’s sandbox for testing new regulatory approaches
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and its digital arm BCG Digital Ventures (BCGDV) have launched a new enterprise aimed at partnering with corporates to invest in, co-build, and scale high-impact decarbonisation ventures.
French strategy and management consulting firm Kea & Partners has raised €23 million from investors as part of its strategy to accelerate its growth and double its business within the coming five years.
Deloitte has announced plans to introduce a new sustainably-focused default pension fund for all of its 35,000 pension scheme members in the Standard Life Master Trust, as part of its wider commitments on climate change and sustainability.
Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young is continuing to invest heavily in blockchain, investing $100 million into engineering and developing distributed ledger technologies for a range of enterprise applications.
Apple will make Munich its European Silicon Design Center, adding hundreds of new employees and a new state-of-the-art facility focused on connectivity and wireless technologies.
Over the last couple of years, it has become increasingly clear that many democratic governments have been taking a closer look at artificial intelligence (AI), both from a policy standpoint and as something to help their economies of the future
KPMG has appointed four new directors within the tax and consulting teams across Scotland as part of a wider commitment within the firm to invest in talent and innovation, including plans – announced in April, to create up to 400 tech-focused jobs in Glasgow within a new Managed Services Hub.
The acquisition of cybersecurity firm Coalfire by funds advised by Apax Partners was officially finalized.
The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) has confirmed that the global management consulting firm, Oliver Wyman, has been appointed ‘‘to provide strategic guidance and support to the LIA’’ from January 2020.