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...Berger Singerman is acting as Bird’s counsel and Teneo is its financial adviser....
...It pays $10m and lends $90m to Bolz LLP, a small Kazakh company 3....
...Berger partners will meet in December to chart the firm’s future....
...Assuming the PwC-Booz tie-up comes off, the market’s attention will inevitably turn back to Roland Berger, which this year ordered a review of its external options....
...“This is a very ‘fluffy’ situation,” cautions one person close to Roland Berger. “There’s no concrete proposal at this time.”...
...Booz and AT Kearney had revenues of $930m in 2011 and Roland Berger $1.2bn, so none is big enough....
...While we’re on the subject of forebearance — here’s Roland Berger on a related issue, whether Spanish banks have provisioned enough for past non-performing loans: It is uncertain whether the LLPs [loan...
...the US, says a study by Alvarez & Marsal, the restructuring specialists, a third of regional banks must merge, while banking in sub-Saharan Africa needs transformation and expansion, according to Roland Berger...
...Deloitte also tried to form an alliance with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, the German management consultancy, last year but Berger partners eventually decided to remain independent....
...The international professional services network had been hoping to merge Roland Berger with part of its own consulting arm, which is bigger than the German firm....
...Roland Berger said the vote to remain independent had been carried with a majority of “close to 100 per cent” on Saturday....
...Mr Berger could not be reached for comment on Thursday. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants declined to comment....
...The new firm would be called Roland Berger Deloitte Strategy Consultants. Martin Wittig, Roland Berger’s chief executive, would be the new entity’s CEO, according to a person familiar with the talks....
...Mr Connolly was also involved in an unsuccessful attempt last month to persuade Germany’s Roland Berger Strategy Consultants to merge with part of Deloitte’s global consulting activities....
...But the failure last year of a planned alliance between Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and Deloitte, and the collapse of a proposed merger of Booz and AT Kearney underlined how hard it would be to meld...
...Previously, he was senior consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, senior equity analyst for the technology sector at Merrill Lynch London, senior equity analyst for the capital goods sector at...
...The initial public offering of Bilfinger Berger Australia, whose projects include the Sydney Opera House, is expected to raise close to €1bn ($1.4bn)....
...Tata Motors said on Monday that it had appointed KPMG and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants to advise it on cost-cutting and cash management at its lossmaking Jaguar Land Rover luxury business....
...It has eliminated more than 2,200 jobs, and in July said it had appointed KPMG and Roland Berger to advise it on cost-cutting and cash management....
...“There can be no serious dispute that there was an accounting fraud at Delphi,” said Sean Coffey, partner at Bernstein Litowitz Berger and Grossmann, the law firm leading the lawsuit....
...Bilfinger Berger, German’s second largest construction group, dropped 8.3 per cent to €42 after it cut its 2005 net profit forecast due to tough trading for its Australian business....
...Analysts said they expected more companies to go insolvent and only those such as market leaders Hochtief and Bilfinger Berger, with a large presence abroad, would prosper....
...Between them, they can point to experience at Apax Partners, Bain & Company, Booz Allen and Hamilton, Boston Consulting, McKinsey and Roland Berger....
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