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PWC and Boston Consulting Group expect the “pent -up demand” to merge and acquisition to enhance its consultative revenues this year, as it hopes to increase the manufacture of deals that the industry can be free from fang after birth.
“There is an increase. M & a He deals on the company's “radar” and expects an increase in due care and preparatory work, as well as advice on merging newly integrated companies.
Mohamed Candy, the global president of PWC, said that optimism between the CEO was “high” and that companies “are looking for ways to transform success, and in many cases they completely invented their business model.”
Their comments come after the number of integration and purchase deals around the world The lowest level in nine years in 2024According to the stock exchange group in London. While a handful of Megadeals has pushed the total value of integration operations to more than 3 dollars for the first time since 2022, it was hardly half the peak of 2021.
The decline of the deal contributed to a sharp slowdown through the consulting sector, especially in the big four of Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PWC.
At the end of their financial year, Deloitte and Ey have registered the least global growth in revenue in 14 years. Thousands have been demobilized through the industry in the past two years, including in MCKINSEY, PWC and KPMG.
Investment bankers are optimistic that making deals will recover in 2025 after the activity was exposed to depression last year due to uncertainty about elections around the world. The global source, which tracks the consulting industry, said that the decline in deals led to a particularly weak end of this year for companies in the United States, which went to the polls in November.
“We expect growth in our consulting business as well as through the wider consulting sector. Payed at a higher level of integration and purchase activity and the focus of increasing companies on implementing technology transfer programs and sustainability.”
Shuiszer said that companies are now more passionate about working because “there was a pent -up demand” for integration and purchases. He said, “Special shares have a lot of dry powder. You need to publish,” which will encourage acquisitions, adding that the acquisition companies also need to get out of some investments after sitting on their wallet companies “for an extraordinary period of time.”
Special stock funds in private shares and investment capital were held at a value of 2.51 Tre in the non -committed capital in December, according to the PREQIN market provider, a decrease from $ 2.66 million at the end of 2023 but is still a high level according to historical standards.
Shuwaiser said that the integration and purchase activity will also reinforce the possibility of a lower organization under the Trump administration in the United States.
BCG, which has not yet been published in 2024, said that its growth was in “double numbers” in 2024 and expected a similar one this year to a large extent of technology projects and advice to companies on how to improve productivity, as well as work at work.
One of the senior partners of another leading consultative company said that there is now “energy and excitement” about integration and purchases again.
“There is no company that does not think about integration and purchases,” they said. “We are a fairly good leadership indicator and the amount of care that we participate in a significant increase in December and January.”
Policy will also help to advance the UK consulting growth, according to the head of consulting at PWC UK in the United Kingdom, who cited the British government's focus on economic growth.
As optimism in the consulting industry grows, companies reconsider the number of main dates and hopes to leave employee discounts behind them. PWC and BCG said they expect an addition to the workforce this year.
Carroll Station, head of the KPMG deals consulting in the United States, said that the company hired heavily during the increase in integration and purchases in 2021 and kept the employees busy preparing customer business for sale when the market is ultimately revived. She said that the first half of 2025 could prove to be a window for making deals, before a possible rise in inflation from the new definitions.
The employees “have been trained. They are still trained. As the deals market increases, the use will rise.” “We will also add more people to the team.”
