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Korn Ferry completes $1.1 billion acquisition of talent firm AMS

Publicly commented on the deal's strategic logic

Korn Ferry closed its roughly $1.1 billion acquisition of AMS, a UK talent-acquisition firm, on September 1. The deal folds AMS's recruitment process outsourcing business into a combined company of nearly 17,000 employees across more than 130 offices.

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Despite the growth in AI, there remains a massive demand for recruitment outsourcing and services, plus AMS One is one of the only integrated platforms to manage a heterogeneous recruiting stack. Korn Ferry has acquired a very valuable company and now, coupled with [its own] consulting and executive search, the company has the potential to grow in many new markets.

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