Deal done for under-fire PwC government consulting arm
The $1 sale of PwC Australia's scandal-hit government consultancy arm is going ahead, paving the way for the transfer of 1750 employees to the buyer.
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The $1 sale of PwC Australia's scandal-hit government consultancy arm is going ahead, paving the way for the transfer of 1750 employees to the buyer.
The firm has already placed nine partners on leave and named four former partners directly involved in the breach. Read more at straitstimes.com.
About 130 PwC partners and about 1750 staff from the firm’s embattled government consulting arm will join a new company codenamed Bell under the cut-price deal.
There’s no time to test a big list of suitors for their best price and terms. Allegro Funds is the first responder, best placed to put out the flames.
It had been four months, two weeks and five days since it emerged a former PwC partner had shared confidential government briefings. Something had to be done.