Consulting & Digital Services Notable Transactions - June/July 2025

By Ramone Param, Managing Director, Kennedy Consult and M&A I Advisor to Consulting Leaders, Buyers/Investors I M&A, Strategic Advisory and Benchmarking

The latest notable deals we outline orbit a familiar current hotspot: the intersection of consulting, GenAI and advanced engineering. Together they sketch a roadmap of where the industry is heading.

Below you’ll find a curated snapshot of the acquisition activity that we’ve been discussing with leadership teams—moves we also believe signal what consulting clients will be asking more of next. We note some previously prolific acquirers quietly reshaping around AI via heavy organic investments and strategic alliances, potentially replacing some past M&A budgets.

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Select transaction roundup — explore each headline in depth

• Capgemini ↗ WNS (US $3.3 bn) — Paris, France / Mumbai, India | Jul 2025 Creates an AI-enabled BPS powerhouse. Read more

• Omnicom ↗ IPG (US $13.5 bn) FTC approval — New York, USA | Jun 2025 Antitrust approval removes a hurdle for the mega-deal to close, bans politically motivated ad boycotts. Read more

• Teneo → PwC Australia Business Restructuring Services — Sydney, Australia | Jul 2025 80-person carve-out gives Teneo regional restructuring-advisory scale. Read more

• Deloitte Tax US → Trust Processing Solutions — Cincinnati, Ohio, USA | Jul 2025 Scales fiduciary-tax compliance platform. Read more

• Deloitte Canada → Allevar — Toronto, Canada | Jul 2025 Strengthens AML / financial-crime services bench. Read more

• Sia Partners → Precedence — Maastricht & Utrecht, Netherlands | Jul 2025 Doubles Dutch footprint and opens two new offices. Read more

• Accenture → SYSTEMA — Dresden, Germany | Jul 2025 Adds Industry X semiconductor smart-factory automation depth. Read more

• Genpact → XponentL Data — Pennsylvania, USA | Jun 2025 Databricks partner brings AI-native data engineering to Genpact’s “AI Gigafactory.” Read more

• Accenture → SIPAL IPS — Milan & Turin, Italy | Jun 2025 Bolsters aerospace-and-defence engineering capabilities. Read more

• Publicis Groupe → Captiv8 — San Francisco, USA | May 2025 Adds an influencer-marketing and creator-economy platform to Publicis’ media stack. Read more

From mega-deals to niche acquisitions, Consulting & Digital Services Notable Transactions from June July 2025 highlight how firms are positioning around GenAI, compliance, and advanced engineering capabilities.

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