BearingPoint and ABeam Consulting strengthen strategic alliance

AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 10, 2025--

Europe-based management and technology consultancy BearingPoint and Japan-based ABeam Consulting (ABeam) have further strengthened their existing strategic alliance by establishing an enhanced structure that enables them to provide global consulting services with high added value. The two consultancies support growth-oriented companies with seamless cross-border services by leveraging their unique global network. This includes meticulous consulting services tailored to local business practices and customer agendas, and Global Capability Centers (GCC) that incorporate offshore digital capabilities complemented by nearshore Centers of Excellence (CoE) for business innovation and transformation.

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Background

Amid rapid technological progress, new evolving global markets, and ongoing societal and economic shifts, companies are facing not only new challenges but also exciting opportunities for innovation and growth. In this context, comprehensive business and technology transformation is a strategic imperative for organizations seeking to stay competitive and relevant in a changing world.

BearingPoint and ABeam support their clients globally in navigating these transformations with a seamless alliance structure and an integrated approach. With a joint service portfolio combined with deep local expertise - in language, culture, and market dynamics - the two firms are uniquely positioned to deliver end-to-end value in global transformation initiatives. Together, they empower businesses to adapt, grow, and succeed in international environments.

Overview of the enhanced structure

In order to resolve these issues and support companies that aim for global growth, BearingPoint and ABeam have established the following setup:

BearingPoint and ABeam aim to continue providing consulting services with a truly seamless structure so that they can address global business issues and transformations that require adaptation to environments different from those in clients' home countries. They will help companies grow globally and create new value by combining the expertise and capabilities that both of their companies bring to bear in diverse fields.

Matthias Loebich, Managing Partner, BearingPoint, comments:
“Since 2011, BearingPoint and ABeam Consulting have been united in a trusted, global long-term strategic alliance. This strategic alliance has enabled both firms to extend our capabilities and client offerings in Europe and Asia. We treat each other as preferred partners in our respective markets, cooperating on both pre-sales and project delivery activities. By leveraging our unique infrastructures and resources, together we provide business consulting services to existing and new clients globally.
Over the last years, we not only successfully won and supported numerous global transformation projects in our existing customer base, we also won and supported new customers for both firms. Among these were several global transformation projects for multinationals.
Our partnership is fundamentally different from other alliances and firms: it is not opportunistic and transactional, but deeply rooted in mutual trust and respect, shared values, and a long-term commitment to co-creation and impact. There is more to come. And I am looking forward to taking further impactful steps with ABeam as we move ahead together.”

Takahiro Yamada, President and CEO, ABeam Consulting, comments:
“As a consulting firm originating in Asia and Japan, we have provided a wide range of consulting services to diverse companies and organizations mainly in Japan and Asia, from the formulation of transformation plans to their realization using digital technology. Our professionals have diverse expertise and a deep understanding of local business practices and cultures in various regions and are committed to helping clients sustain change.
Uncertainty in the business environment is increasing amid the social issues and economic changes that come with Japan’s declining birthrate and aging population, as well as geopolitical risks and environmental issues affecting the global economy. Amid such enormous changes in the business environment, we and BearingPoint share a mutual understanding of the importance of sharing the experiences of success gained through our many years of collaboration and improving our value proposition to customers.
Through the reinforcement of our collaboration with BearingPoint, with whom we have built a unique relationship of trust, and through establishing a new organizational structure, we will provide our clients all over the world with truly seamless, consistent consulting services with high added value. We will continue to contribute even more as a real partner that creates economic and social value through customer transformation.”

About ABeam Consulting

ABeam Consulting is an integrated management consulting firm that provides global services tailored to each country and region through its worldwide network centered in Asia. The wide range of consulting services it provides include strategy, BPR, IT, organization/personnel, outsourcing and other domains of specialized expertise. Roughly 8,800 richly experienced professional ABeam consultants advise in the areas of finance, manufacturing, distribution, energy, information communications, as well as industry, and organizations in the public sector and other sectors. ABeam Consulting creates the future together with corporations and other organizations. As a creative partner leading the way reliably through change, we contribute to industrial and societal change.

About BearingPoint

BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy with European roots and a global reach, which delivers business transformation using technology intelligently. The company operates in three business units: Consulting, Products, and Capital. Consulting covers management and technology consulting with a clear focus on selected business areas. Products provides IP-driven solutions and managed services for business-critical processes. Capital delivers deal advisory and transaction services. In addition, BearingPoint runs the joint venture Arcwide, focused on business transformation and consulting excellence based on IFS.

BearingPoint’s clients include many of the world’s leading companies and organizations. Together with its strategic alliance partner ABeam Consulting the firm has more than 14,000 people and supports clients in over 70 countries to deliver seamless business transformation with sustainable impact.

BearingPoint is a certified B Corporation.

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BearingPoint and ABeam Consulting have further strengthened their existing strategic alliance by establishing an enhanced structure that enables them to provide global consulting services with high added value.

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — First responders on Sunday entered a contested neighborhood in Syria’ s northern city of Aleppo after days of deadly clashes between government forces and Kurdish-led forces. Syrian state media said the military was deployed in large numbers.

The clashes broke out Tuesday in the predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Achrafieh and Bani Zaid after the government and the Syrian Democratic Forces, the main Kurdish-led force in the country, failed to make progress on how to merge the SDF into the national army. Security forces captured Achrafieh and Bani Zaid.

The fighting between the two sides was the most intense since the fall of then-President Bashar Assad to insurgents in December 2024. At least 23 people were killed in five days of clashes and more than 140,000 were displaced amid shelling and drone strikes.

The U.S.-backed SDF, which have played a key role in combating the Islamic State group in large swaths of eastern Syria, are the largest force yet to be absorbed into Syria's national army. Some of the factions that make up the army, however, were previously Turkish-backed insurgent groups that have a long history of clashing with Kurdish forces.

The Kurdish fighters have now evacuated from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood to northeastern Syria, which is under the control of the SDF. However, they said in a statement they will continue to fight now that the wounded and civilians have been evacuated, in what they called a “partial ceasefire.”

The neighborhood appeared calm Sunday. The United Nations said it was trying to dispatch more convoys to the neighborhoods with food, fuel, blankets and other urgent supplies.

Government security forces brought journalists to tour the devastated area, showing them the damaged Khalid al-Fajer Hospital and a military position belonging to the SDF’s security forces that government forces had targeted.

The SDF statement accused the government of targeting the hospital “dozens of times” before patients were evacuated. Damascus accused the Kurdish-led group of using the hospital and other civilian facilities as military positions.

On one street, Syrian Red Crescent first responders spoke to a resident surrounded by charred cars and badly damaged residential buildings.

Some residents told The Associated Press that SDF forces did not allow their cars through checkpoints to leave.

“We lived a night of horror. I still cannot believe that I am right here standing on my own two feet,” said Ahmad Shaikho. “So far the situation has been calm. There hasn’t been any gunfire.”

Syrian Civil Defense first responders have been disarming improvised mines that they say were left by the Kurdish forces as booby traps.

Residents who fled are not being allowed back into the neighborhood until all the mines are cleared. Some were reminded of the displacement during Syria’s long civil war.

“I want to go back to my home, I beg you,” said Hoda Alnasiri.

Associated Press journalist Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut contributed to this report.

Sandbag barriers used as fighting positions by Kurdish fighters, left inside a destroyed mosque in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Burned vehicles at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

People flee the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

A Syrian military police convoy enters the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Burned vehicles and ammunitions left at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)