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Rakesh Pabbi - Senior Partner
In 2021, corporate dealmakers raced to acquire transformative capabilities and scale rapidly amid soaring valuations. This led to a record-breaking year for M&A deal values, exceeding expectations at an unmatched $5.9 trillion. These are among the findings of Bain & Company’s fourth annual M&A report.
SAP said on Thursday it has agreed to buy a majority stake in privately held U.S. fintech firm Taulia as the German business software group seeks to expand its presence in supply-chain financing and working capital management.
Bain & Company ranked as the top consulting firm on Glassdoor's list of 100 Best Places to Work, ranking #3 among large U.S. companies. It is currently the only company to earn a number one ranking on five separate occasions, and the firm has consistently ranked in the top four since Glassdoor founded the list in 2008.
Accenture has welcomed two seasoned professionals to its Australian team: Andrew Wilson and Octavio Gomez Haro.
Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter innovation precinct has welcomed one of the world’s leading strategy and management consultancies, following the launch of a permanent BCG office in New Zealand.
Monitor Deloitte has strengthened its team in Australia with Tamanah Azizi, who joins from rival Strategy&.
IBM has acquired Sentaca, a Boston-based technology consultancy focusing on telecommunications and media clients.
Partners in Performance, a global management consulting firm, has hired Eric Powell as a director in its North American energy transition practice.
Baker Tilly US has acquired Orchestrate Healthcare, a West Palm Beach, FL-based healthcare IT consulting firm.
James Manyika, a former senior partner at consulting firm McKinsey & Company, has joined Google to serve in the newly created role of senior vice president of technology and society.
Over the past years, EY has supported Malaysia’s national energy provider Tenaga Nasional Berhad with a large-scale overhaul of its customer strategy and operations. Mark Bennett, EY Asia-Pacific Energy & Resources Customer Experience Transformation Leader, walks through the case and outlines how EY put its expertise to work.
PwC Legal has expanded its footprint in the Middle East with the opening of an office in Doha, the firm’s third in the region.
Momentum Commerce, a modern digital retail consultancy, today announced the formal launch of its Strategy Consulting practice. This arm of Momentum Commerce's business supports brands, private equity firms, investment banks, and other organizations with exacting needs around data-backed research and strategic guidance in the digital retail space. An example of the Strategy Consulting team's work includes a portion of Momentum Commerce's long-standing engagement with Thrasio, announced in early 2022.
A global consulting firm with 12,000 employees and over 40 locations — including offices in New York, Tokyo and London — plans to open one in Maine.
Global consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal has promoted Dubai-based team member Cam Coles to Managing Director.
Accenture is to head up a consortium to develop and support a national payments infrastructure in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that will enable next-generation payments.
Crowell & Moring, a Washington, DC-based law firm, has launched healthcare consulting practice Crowell Health Solutions.
The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), with a mission to support the development of the industry’s next generation of purpose-driven leaders, today announced it has joined forces with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Egon Zehnder to launch the next edition of its Future Leaders Programme (FLP), which will include a combination of state-of-the-art content, deep connections, and community-building for a hand-selected group of up and coming leaders.
Global strategy consulting firm Boston Consulting Group has promoted Casablanca-based Anas Laabi to managing director and partner.
