Warth & Klein will be the exclusive member firm of Grant Thornton in Germany. For more than a decade, we have provided services with Grant Thornton International. Now we have intensified our cooperation. Starting in July 2011 we will be the sole member of the international organisation of accounting companies. Already today, we support our clients as Warth & Klein Grant Thornton.
The Warth & Klein group has about 500 employees in nine office locations in Duesseldorf, Aachen, Dresden, Frankfurt/Wiesbaden, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Viersen, and Munich. We provide our clients with assurance, tax, corporate and private finance advisory services.
Said Prof. Dr. Klaus-Günter Klein, chairman of the board of Warth & Klein AG: "This is a vital step in the development of our domestic and international professional services. We look forward to strengthening our cooperation with Grant Thornton, and we are confident that we can expand our core business within the German market and across borders. This strategic positioning will create ample cooperation opportunities for clients, partners and employees alike."
And Ed Nusbaum, CEO Grant Thornton International, added: "Germany is a key market in the global economy and immensely important to us. Together with the excellent Warth & Klein team we will continue to strengthen our market presence in Germany."
Grant Thornton International is one of the world's leading organisations of independently owned and managed accounting and consulting firms providing assurance, tax and specialist advisory services to privately held businesses and public interest entities. The quality of the international organisation sustains and supports the work of each individual entity. Clients of member firms can access the knowledge and experience of more than 30.000 people in over 100 countries. Member firms are not members of one international partnership or otherwise legal partners with each other, nor is any one firm responsible for the services or activities of any other.