Korn Ferry has announced a definitive agreement to acquire UK-based talent acquisition and consulting powerhouse AMS from OMERS Private Equity. The transaction is valued at approximately £850 million ($1.1 billion), consisting of £659 million ($881 million) in cash and £191 million ($255 million) in Korn Ferry common stock. The acquisition consolidates the strengths of both entities to establish a dominant global leader in integrated workforce and organizational consulting.
The combination bridges Korn Ferry’s market-leading executive search, consulting, and workforce solutions with AMS’s highly specialized portfolio in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), contingent workforce solutions, early careers recruiting, and skills creation. By absorbing AMS’s network of 8,000 workforce experts across more than 120 countries, the unified organization will feature over 16,000 professionals—statistically placing a professional into a career role every 90 seconds. Financially, the deal adds substantial recurring revenue visibility, immediately injecting more than $1.5 billion in estimated backlogged fees from AMS’s long-term enterprise service contracts.
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Highlighting how human capital strategies drive sustainable business results despite the rise of disruptive enterprise technology, Gary D. Burnison, CEO of Korn Ferry, stated: “By bringing AMS into the Korn Ferry family, we are expanding our ability to help clients solve their most critical organizational challenges. Despite all of the technological innovations of yesterday, today and tomorrow, the real driver of organizational success is people. And with our AMS colleagues we will be stronger together than apart. Over almost 20 years I have watched AMS grow and evolve, with deep admiration and respect.”
Underscoring the shared cultural values and accelerated service capacity achieved by unifying both platforms, Gordon Stuart, CEO of AMS, concluded: “Combining AMS with Korn Ferry will create new opportunities for our clients, our teams, and accelerate our ability to shape the future of work.”
