据英国会计网站Accountancy Age发布，毕马威在瑞士及英国的机构宣布合并！详细如下：

  毕马威瑞士(KPMG Switzerland)和毕马威英国(KPMG UK)的合伙人以绝大多数投票同意合并两国机构，合并后的新企业规模将达44亿美元，业务涉及审计、税务和法律以及咨询。

  这将使新成立的公司将成为毕马威网络中的第二大公司。

  毕马威英国首席执行官兼高级合伙人Jon Holt将担任新公司首席执行官，毕马威瑞士现任首席执行官Stefan Pfister将担任合并后公司的集团副首席执行官。

“这对两家公司来说都是一个历史性的时刻。毕马威英国首席执行官兼高级合伙人Jon Holt表示：“两国机构合并后，我们将变得更加强大，我们的规模将大大增强我们的能力，为国际和国内市场的客户提供更出色的服务。”

  “合并为我们的客户、我们的员工和我们的合伙人带来了巨大的利益，这意味着我们现在可以更快地增长，并以可持续的方式共同投资，创造新的服务。英国的服务业非常出色，这次合并是对我们专业和金融服务业实力的信心投票。”

两家公司在合并时都处于优势地位，都是不断增长、盈利的企业，并且两家公司在服务跨国客户方面有着悠久的历史。

双方将带来互补的优势和技术，在审计、税务和法律以及咨询等领域提供一系列服务。

  毕马威瑞士首席执行官Stefan Pfister表示：“今天双方做出了一个重要的决定，这个决定将不断发展，并在未来证明我们的公司能够应对未来的全球商业挑战。”

  “通过合作，我们将更加灵活，能够将毕马威最好的多学科模式和行业专业知识带给国内和国际客户，同时保持我们对当地市场的理解和执行能力。”

  对于寻求国际扩张的瑞士金融服务、商业和消费者服务公司来说，英国是除美国以外的首选地。

  英国和瑞士之间的金融服务贸易目前价值超过30亿英镑。

  此次合并正值重要时刻，并遵循了瑞士和英国政府于2023年12月签署的英瑞首个相互承认协议。

  合并后，毕马威将成立一个新的有限责任合伙企业(LLP)，将两家公司的股权合伙人聚集在一起。新的LLP将拥有现有的英国和瑞士公司。

  新的集团执行委员会将由现有的英国和瑞士高级领导层组合。它将为更大的合伙人关系承担决策责任，并将负责推动两个市场的可持续长期增长。

  合并后的新公司将设立集团董事会，这将是新企业的最高管理机构。它将设有审计与风险委员会、薪酬委员会和提名委员会。

  毕马威瑞士和毕马威英国仍将是独立的公司，受各自国家法律和监管机构管辖。两国公司的独立管理委员会将继续运作，负责业务的日常运营和实施集团战略。

英国将保留一个由Bina Mehta领导的英国董事会，以及按照英国法规的要求的独立审计委员会和审计执行委员会，实现审计业务的业务分离。瑞士董事会将继续遵守《联邦审计员监督法》的要求。

  新的合伙人关系将于今年10月1日正式启动。集团执行机构的任命将在适当时候确认。两家公司的业务仍在正常进行。

  原英文报道如下：

  Partners at KPMG Switzerland and KPMG UK have voted overwhelmingly in favour of merging their partnerships and will become a new $4.4bn business, working across audit, tax and legal, and advisory.

  This will make the new firm the second largest in the KPMG network by some distance.

Jon Holt, KPMG UK’s chief executive and senior partner will lead the new partnership as group CEO with Stefan Pfister, current CEO of KPMG Switzerland as group deputy CEO of the combined firm.

“This marks a historic moment for both firms. We will be stronger as one combined firm and together we will have the scale to significantly enhance our ability to deliver great outcomes for our clients both internationally and within our domestic markets,” says Jon Holt, chief executive and senior partner of KPMG UK.

  “Merging brings huge benefits for our clients, our people, and our partnership and means we can now grow faster, be more profitable and invest together to create new services in a sustainable way. The UK’s services sector is in great health, and this merger is a vote of confidence in the strength of our professional and financial services sectors.”

  Both firms enter the merger from positions of strength as growing, profitable businesses with a strong history of already working together for multinational clients.

  Both will bring their complementary strengths and technologies to build on the range of services offered across audit, tax and legal, and advisory.

  “Both partnerships have made an important decision today, which will evolve and future proof our firms for the global business challenges ahead,” says Stefan Pfister, CEO of KPMG Switzerland.

“Together we will be more agile and can bring the best of KPMG’s multidisciplinary model and sector expertise to clients nationally and internationally while at the same time maintaining our local market understanding and execution power.”

  The UK is the top non-US destination for Swiss firms in financial services, and business and consumer services, looking to expand internationally.

  Trade in financial services between the UK and Switzerland is currently worth over £3bn.

This merger comes at a significant moment and follows the UK-Swiss first of a kind Mutual Recognition Agreement between the Swiss and UK Governments in December 2023.

  The merger will see KPMG establish a new limited liability partnership (LLP) bringing together the two firm’s equity partners. The new LLP will own the existing UK and Swiss firms.

  A new Group Executive Committee will be formed by existing UK and Swiss senior leadership. It will have decision-making responsibilities for the larger partnership and will be responsible for driving sustainable long-term growth in both markets.

  There will be a Group Board of the Holding LLP – which will be the ultimate governing body for the new partnership. It will have an Audit and Risk Committee, Remuneration Committee and a Nomination Committee.

  KPMG Switzerland and KPMG UK will remain separate firms governed by the respective national laws and supervision. The separate Management Committees for each firm will continue to operate, being responsible for the day-to-day operation of the business and implementing the group strategy.

The UK will retain a UK Board, led by Bina Mehta, in addition to its independent Audit Board and Audit Executive – as required by UK regulation to deliver operational separation of the audit practice. The Swiss Board of Directors will continue to meet the requirements of the Federal Auditor Oversight Act.

The new partnership will mark its first day on 01 October this year. Appointments to the Group

Executive bodies will be confirmed in due course. Operations in both firms are continuing as normal.