The Deloitte professional services firms in the UK and Switzerland have been combined and will now operate as a single practice. This will a...

The Deloitte professional services firms in the UK and Switzerland have been combined and will now operate as a single practice. This will allow the resources, scale and investment capacity of the Deloitte UK firm to be focused on Switzerland as a major business and financial centre, with the aim of increasing the size of the Swiss operations very significantly. For this reason, there are currently no plans to close any offices or make any redundancies.

The Deloitte Swiss firm will be wholly owned by Deloitte & Touche LLP in the UK. Gerhard Ammann will be the chairman and chief executive of the Swiss practice and other partners in Switzerland will become partners in the UK firm.

John Connolly, the UK firm’s chief executive and chairman of the Global Management Committee of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu said: “We consider it important to deliver our best specialist resources from the largest Deloitte office, London, directly to the Swiss market. The investment will be considerable.”