The Big Four are the four largest professional services networks in the world: Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC. They are the four largest global accounting networks as measured by revenue. The four are often grouped because they are comparable in size relative to the rest of the market, both in terms of revenue and workforce; they are considered equal in their ability to provide a wide scope of professional services to their clients; and, among those looking to start a career in professional services, particularly accounting, they are considered equally attractive networks to work in, because of the frequency with which these firms engage with Fortune 500 companies.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, commonly referred to as Deloitte, is a multinational professional services network based in London, England. Deloitte is the largest professional services network by revenue and number of employees in the world and is one of the Big Four accounting firms, along with EY, KPMG, and PwC.
Linklaters LLP is a British multinational law firm, headquartered in London, England. Founded in 1838, it is one of the four prestigious "Magic Circle" law firms known for their corporate and financial expertise. It currently employs over 3100 lawyers across 31 offices in 21 countries.
A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law. The primary service rendered by a law firm is to advise clients about their legal rights and responsibilities, and to represent clients in civil or criminal cases, business transactions, and other matters in which legal advice and other assistance are sought.
Grant Thornton LLP is the American member firm of Grant Thornton International, the seventh largest accounting network in the world by combined fee income. Grant Thornton LLP is the seventh largest U.S. accounting and advisory organization. The firm operates 59 offices across the US with approximately 8,500 employees, 550 partners, and produces annual revenue in excess of US$1.9 billion.
Hugh L. McColl Jr. is a former business executive who was the CEO of NationsBank and the former chairman and the first CEO of Bank of America. Active in banking since around 1960, McColl was a driving force behind consolidating a series of progressively larger, mostly Southern banks, thrifts and financial institutions into a super-regional banking force, "the first ocean-to-ocean bank in the nation's history".
North Carolina National Bank (NCNB) was an American bank based in Charlotte, North Carolina, prior to 1960 called American Commercial Bank. It was one of America's top banking institutions between the 1960s-1990s. From 1974 to 1983, the bank was run by chairman and chief executive officer Tom Storrs. What was NCNB would form the core Bank of America.
Drivers Jonas was a longstanding private partnership of chartered surveyors in the United Kingdom. It was acquired by Deloitte in 2010.
Shea & Gould was one of New York's best-known law firms. It was established as a result of a merger in 1964 between the firm Manning, Hollinger & Shea and Gallup, and the firm Climenko & Gould. Then in the 1970s the firm acquired several smaller niche practices in antitrust and other areas. It dissolved in 1994.
McGrigors LLP was a UK Top 50 law firm with offices in six British cities as well as Qatar and the Falkland Islands. The firm merged with international law firm Pinsent Masons in 2012.
Trollope & Colls was a British construction company. In the latter decades of the 20th century, it was one of the nation's largest construction companies.
Venmyn Deloitte is a wholly owned subsidiary of Deloitte. The company provides consulting services to the global minerals industry, bridging the disciplines of mining and finance, and emphasises Deloitte's commitment to the global mining industry. It is headquartered in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa.
John Patrick Connolly is an English businessman. He is the chairman of Eisner Advisory Group LLC, Interpath Advisory, Stonehage Fleming and Metric Capital Partners. He was chairman of two FTSE-100 companies, G4S and Amec Foster Wheeler. Prior to that he was senior partner and chief executive of Deloitte in the UK, and global managing partner and global chairman of Deloitte until his retirement from the firm in June 2011.
Appnovation is a global, full service digital consultancy firm with headquarters in Canada, specializing in web, intranet and mobile application development using open technologies including Drupal and Alfresco, HTML5 frameworks like SproutCore and PhoneGap, as well as middleware, Big Data and business intelligence services using Mulesoft, Hadoop and MongoDB. Appnovation is one of five companies in Canada to achieve Platinum Partner status with Alfresco Software, Inc. and Enterprise Select Partner status with Acquia.
MNP is one of the largest full-service chartered professional accountancy and business advisory firms in Canada. MNP's head office is in Calgary, Alberta, and has offices from Vancouver Island to St. John's. MNP's 127 offices span across 10 out of 13 of the provinces and territories of Canada, as it does not have locations in Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. With 8,000+ employees, MNP is the third largest professional service firms in Canada by headcount.
Coast at Lakeshore East, originally known as Lakeshore East Building 2-A, is a 46-story residential skyscraper in the Lakeshore East development in the Loop community area of downtown Chicago. The building is located at 345 East Wacker Drive. It is the eighth 21st century skyscraper at Lakeshore East. It is the first smoke-free residential building in Lakeshore East.
Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP is a commercial law firm, headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, with offices in Glasgow, Aberdeen and London.
HighQ Solutions Ltd. is a privately owned software as a service (SaaS) company providing cloud-based secure file sharing, team collaboration and social networking software. HighQ was founded in London in 2001 by university friends Ajay Patel and Veenay Shah. The company has offices in the UK (London), Australia (Sydney), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Germany (Frankfurt), USA and an R&D operation in India (Ahmedabad). It has customers in the legal, banking and corporate sectors as well as government and life sciences.
Tonkon Torp LLP is an American law firm based in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1974, the limited liability partnership has 78 attorneys. As of 2010, it was the third largest law firm in Portland when it had 86 attorneys.
BDO is an international network of public accounting, tax, consulting and business advisory firms that provide professional services under the name BDO. It is the fifth-largest accounting network in the world. Global fee income of the member firms in the network for the year ended 30 September 2023, including the members of their exclusive alliances, totaled US$ 14 billion. Each BDO member firm is an independent legal entity in its own country. The network, founded in 1963 as Binder Seidman International Group by firms from Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and the US, is coordinated by BDO Global Coordination B.V., with an office in Zaventem, Belgium. In 1973, the organisation adopted the name BDO, made up from the initials of the three founding firms: Binder (UK), Dijker (Netherlands) and Otte (Germany).
