LEK consulting
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| Industry | Management consulting |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Headquarters | London, England |
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Key people
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Iain Evans, Global Chairman Stuart Jackson, Global Managing Partner |
| Products | Management consulting services, including strategy, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, life sciences, and retail |
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Number of employees
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3,000+ employees worldwide |
| Website | www |
Iain Evans, Global Chairman
L.E.K. Consulting is one of the most competitive global management consulting firms in the world. Headquartered in London and Boston (for its US counterpart), L.E.K. was founded in 1983 by three individual partners from Bain & Company: James Lawrence, Iain Evans, and Richard Koch. The company's primary service lines consist of corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and operations. It employs a generalist model across all major industries, including a large presence in defence, aviation, life sciences, healthcare, energy, entertainment, transport, retail, consumer products and financial services. The company also has a large private equity practice.
It employs over 3,000 individuals across 21 offices worldwide, and in 2017, was ranked as the most desirable management consulting employer for MBA students, as well as the 2nd most desirable employer overall for MBA students.
In 2012, the company was also ranked as amongst the Top 25 of the world's most challenging companies to interview for.
In 1983, three partners from Bain & Company - James Lawrence, Iain Evans and Richard Koch - founded L.E.K. Consulting in London. Some of L.E.K.'s major project milestones have included strategic and commercial advice for the U.K. government on the privatization of passenger train operating companies in the mid-1990s, assisting the launch of one of the world's first pure direct Internet banks in 1996, being the sole strategic advisor on the world's largest airline merger in 2007 and the transformation of a mid-tier global pharmaceutical company into an industry leader in 2009. In 2008, L.E.K. became the first global major management consulting firm to hold 'carbon neutral' status.
L.E.K. Consulting employs over 1,200 consultants across 21 offices worldwide.
L.E.K. Consulting has a six month office SWAP program, in which an employee can switch places with a peer in an overseas office for a six month period.
L.E.K. Consulting has won a number of awards within the management consulting industry. They were named 'Strategic Consultants of the Year' at the 2015 Health Investor Awards, following on from awards in 2013, 2012 and 2011. In 2007, L.E.K Consulting won a "Queen's Award for Enterprise" in the category of International Trade. In 2016 L.E.K. was recognised in the 2016 Excellence in Social & Community Investment Awards. In 2006, L.E.K. was named Due Diligence Adviser of the Year by Acquisitions Monthly and Specialist Adviser of the Year by Acquisition Finance. L.E.K. Consulting was ranked #11 in Consulting Magazine's 2016 Best Firms to Work for list, placing #4 in the compensation and benefits category.
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