By Dave Rogers2021-07-29T05:00:00+01:00 Keeping staff happy and maintaining autonomy at listed US giant are the key challenges facing consultant’s UK bosses “We were all shocked when we were called into a room and told that we were being bought. We were gobsmacked it hadn’t leaked, bowled over. Very few people must have known.” One senior industry figure is recalling the time several years ago he found out the consulting business he was working at had just been snapped up by Aecom. For many at T&T right now, that feeling will be familiar. Only a handful of people at the very top would have known, all sworn to secrecy and, given that the discussions with CBRE had been going on for more than six months, dreading it leaking out, alerting rivals, causing unease and leading to the whole thing being called off.