Korn Ferry to acquire AMS for $1.1 billion

• Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) agreed to acquire AMS from OMERS Private Equity for approximately $1.1 billion, consisting of cash and stock.
• The deal will create a global leader in talent and organizational consulting with more than 16,000 colleagues.
• Korn Ferry expects the transaction to be immediately accretive to earnings per share and to add significant revenue visibility through AMS’s long-term contracts.

Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire UK-headquartered AMS, creating a global leader in talent and organizational consulting.

The transaction values AMS at approximately £850 million ($1.1 billion), with Korn Ferry paying approximately £659 million ($881 million) in cash and £191 million ($255 million) in common stock.

Following completion, the combined firm will have more than 16,000 colleagues, placing a professional in a job approximately every 90 seconds.

“By bringing AMS into the Korn Ferry family, we are expanding our ability to help clients solve their most critical organizational challenges,” said Gary D. Burnison, CEO, Korn Ferry.

The acquisition combines Korn Ferry’s expertise across search, talent & organizational solutions, and workforce solutions with AMS’s strengths in recruitment process outsourcing, early careers, contingent workforce solutions, consulting, and skills creation.

AMS, founded by Rosaleen Blair in 1996, serves leading organizations across multiple industries with operations in more than 120 countries.

Rosaleen Blair will continue in a Chair role following the transaction.

The deal is expected to close in Korn Ferry’s second fiscal quarter of FY’27 and is anticipated to be immediately accretive to earnings per share.