BDO 将成员所合并为更大实体的战略意味着，它无需引入私募股权投资即可实现增长，该网络新任全球负责人 Trond-Morten Lindberg 表示，因为越来越多的会计和咨询服务机构开始依赖外部资金。
BDO’s strategy of merging member firms into larger groups means it doesn’t need to take private equity investment to grow, said the network’s new global head, Trond-Morten Lindberg, as more accounting and consulting services lean on external funding.
Lindberg 在接受采访时表示，该专业服务网络计划在未来 18 至 24 个月内，将其成员所数量从 100 多家缩减至 40 家左右。
The professional services network plans to shrink the number of its units to around 40 from more than 100 over the next 18 to 24 months, Lindberg said in an interview.
“我们坚信，网络的力量让我们目前以及未来都处于一个不一定需要引入任何外部资本的地位，” 本月刚履新全球首席执行官的 Lindberg 说道。
“We strongly believe the strength of the network brings us into a position right now, and in the future, where we don’t necessarily need to take any external capital,” said Lindberg, who assumed the role as global chief executive officer this month.
近年来，外部资本大量涌入会计行业，各机构利用私募股权资金收购竞争对手、整合国际网络并投资人工智能。
External capital has flooded into the accountancy sector in recent years with firms using money from private equity to acquire rivals, integrate international networks and invest in artificial intelligence.
据 Lindberg 介绍，组建能够汇集资源在人工智能等领域共同投资的大型实体，将意味着成员所无需动用私募股权资金为其增长提供资金。
Forming larger units that can pool investment in areas such as AI will mean member firms won’t need to take private equity money to fund their growth, according to Lindberg.
他补充道：“识别出我们只需共同投资、而非在相当多的市场中并行投资的领域，正是我们在整合过程中真正试图做的事情。” 到年底，该机构将把成员所数量缩减至 80 家左右。
“Identifying these domains where we simply need to invest together rather than in parallel across quite a few markets is really what we’re trying to do on that integration journey,” he added. By year-end, the firm will have shrunk its number of units to around 80.
去年，BDO Global 建议其成员所不要接受私募股权资金，这与 Grant Thornton 等竞争对手形成对比，后者已有一系列成员所出售给私募股权公司。
BDO Global last year advised its member firms not to take private equity money, in contrast to rivals such as Grant Thornton where a series of member firms have sold out to private equity firms.
Lindberg 表示，尽管 BDO 持有这一立场，但也不能排除某些成员所利用外部资本为增长提供资金的可能性。不过，任何交易都必须符合企业所“界定的独立性”，即不会改变其治理结构。
Lindberg said that despite BDO’s stance, it wasn’t impossible to conceive that some member firms could use external capital to fund growth. However, any deal would have to fall within what the business “defined as independent,” meaning it wouldn’t change its governance structure, he said.
Lindberg 称，BDO 的独立性对业务至关重要，这也是全球领导层在私募股权问题上持该立场的部分动因。
Lindberg said the independence of BDO was vital to the business and that was part of the motivation for the global leadership’s stance on private equity.
“我们不希望发生的是让客户猜测我们是否独立，”他说，并拒绝就具体情况置评。
“What we don’t want to happen is having clients speculate whether we are independent or not,” he said, declining to comment on specific situations.
林德伯格表示，他希望公司的整合能够加快推进，这反映出适应人工智能、应对充满不确定性的世界以及面对引入外部资本的竞争对手的迫切需求。他说：“犹豫的代价从未如此之大。”
Lindberg said he wanted the firm’s integration to happen at speed, reflecting the urgent need to adapt to AI, an uncertain world and rivals taking on external capital. “The cost of hesitation has never been bigger,” he said.
BDO 拥有超过 9 万名员工和 800 多家办事处，2025 年全球收入近 110 亿美元。林德伯格曾领导 BDO 挪威公司、其欧洲、中东和非洲业务，最近担任该网络的首席战略与运营官。他于 11 月 1 日接替帕特·克雷默出任 BDO 全球首席执行官。
BDO, which has more than 90,000 people and over 800 offices, posted global revenue of nearly $11 billion in 2025. Lindberg previously led BDO’s Norway firm, its Europe, Middle East and Africa business and most recently was the network’s chief strategy and operations officer. He succeeded Pat Kramer as BDO Global CEO on Nov. 1.