Big Four firms

By Fiona Czerniawska

Ever since the deal between PwC and Booz & Company was announced in late 2013, there’s been speculation about the latter’s new name (when Booz & Company separated from Booz Allen Hamilton back in 2008 it agreed that, in the event it was acquired/merged, it would surrender its name within 90 days).

By Fiona Czerniawska

“M&A deals reduce competition and distract consultants from what should be their primary focus; their clients.”  Those views, of a senior executive we spoke to last year, are pretty typical: deals between big firms don’t add value to clients; if anything, they destroy it.