PwC takes on 80 partners

PricewaterhouseCoopers appoints 80 new partners during the past year, with women accounting for 29%

Written by Alex Hawkes

Since 1 July, 58 new partners have been named at PwC, while 22 were recruited externally in the past year.

PwC now has 107 women partners ­ the highest number in the 10-year history of the UK firm, which was formed when Coopers and Lybrand merged with Price Waterhouse in 1998.

The new partners span all areas of the firm’s businesses and regions with 29 partners admitted to
the assurance practice, 26 to the advisory practice and 25 to the tax practice.

According to the latest Accountancy Age Top 50 survey, PwC had 822 partners in 2008.

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