Pwa Yongdao and Boston Consulting Group predict that the "pressure demand" of mergers and acquisitions will increase their consultation income this year, as expected exciting in the transaction hopes that the industry can get rid of its popular release.
BCG CEO Christoph Schweizer told the Financial Times that the company's "radar" M & A transaction increased, and it is expected that the company's due diligence and preparation work will increase, as well as the integrated integration Proposal of new merging enterprises.
Mohamed Kande, the Periodical President of Pwa, said that the optimism of the CEO is "high", and the company is "looking for a way to change success. In many cases, it has re -invent its business model". Essence
According to data from the London Stock Exchange Group, their comments were after the number of global mergers and acquisitions reached a nine -year low. Since 2022, a small number of MEGADEAL has pushed the total value of mergers and acquisitions to exceed 3TN for the first time, but it is still half the peak in 2021.
This trading downturn has led to a sharp slowdown in the entire field of consultation, especially in the four major of the four major in Deloitte, Europe, KPMG accounting firms and PwC.
In the recent fiscal year, Deloitte and Ernst & Young released the lowest growth rate of global revenue over the past 14 years. Over the past two years, including McKinsey, PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMA accounting firms, including thousands of industries.
Investment banks are optimistic that the transaction will rebound in 2025 after the uncertainty of the global elections last year. Source Global, which follows the consultation industry, said that the downturn of transactions has led to a particularly weak year for American companies, and the company conducted a public opinion investigation in November.
"We expect our consulting business and the growth of the entire wide range of consulting.. With the increasingly driven by the higher -level mergers and acquisitions and the company's implementation technology and sustainable transformation plan, Kanda said said Essence
Schweizer said that the company is now eager to reach a transaction because M & A "already has a demand for depression." He said: "There are a lot of dried powder in private equity.. It needs to be deployed." This will encourage acquisitions and add that after sitting in its "unusual time" in its investment portfolio company, the acquisition company needs to withdraw from some investment.
According to data from Preqin, a private market data provider, the global private equity and venture capital funds held a 2.51TN capital in December in December, and 2.66TN below the end of 2023, but according to historical standards, it is still a high level of level Essence
Schweizer said that the prospects of less supervision under the Trump administration of the United States will also promote mergers and acquisitions.
BCG has not published income in 2024, saying that its growth is the "double -digit" in 2024. It is expected to grow greatly this year. It mainly comes from technical projects and provides the company with suggestions on how to increase productivity and transactions.
Another senior partner of another consulting company said that now the "energy and excitement" of mergers and acquisitions again.
They said: "No company has not considered mergers and acquisitions." "We are a very good leading indicator. In December and January, the number of hard work we worked was significantly increased."
The person in charge of Jonathan House, a PricewaterhouseCoopers, said that politics will also help promote the growth of British consultation. He quoted the British government's attention to economic growth.
With the development of optimism in the consulting industry, the company is re -examining the number of employees and hopes to abandon employees to reduce. Both Pwa and BCG said they expect to increase their labor this year.
Carole Streicher, director of the trading consulting of KPMG, said that the company hired a large number of employment during the 2021 merger and acquisition period, and made employees busy preparing for customers' business when the market was finally revived. She said that it may be proven to be a trading window in the first half of 2025, and then the new tariffs may increase inflation.
The staff "received training. They are still under training. With the development of the trading market, the utilization rate will rise," she said. "We will also add more people to the team."