Best Consulting Firms in EMEA in Each Practice Area
Consultants across the region rate the top firms in their practice areas.
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2025 Best Consulting Firms in EMEA for Economic Consulting
McKinsey & Company EMEA
McKinsey consultants work in collaborative teams, have opportunities to make meaningful impact, and engage in challenges to stretch their abilities and further their expertise. McKinsey provides a culture that is distinctive and inclusive, focused on a personalized, flexible, dynamic environment that delivers high-performing and sustainable results. The firm is creating conditions for its colleagues to author their own journey and advance based on individual skills and impact.
37.35% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#1
Boston Consulting Group EMEA
BCG operates in 50+ countries worldwide, with half of the locations based in Europe and the Middle East. The firm’s diverse, local, regional and global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise to organizations, helping them to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact. BCG partnered with almost 1,000 organizations in 2020 on 900+ social impact & sustainability projects and 400+ climate & environment projects.
30.95% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#2
Bain & Company EMEA
Bain & Company may operate presence in dozens of countries—with 26 offices in Europe, the Middle East & Africa—but that doesn’t keep the “heart” of the Big Three from functioning as one firm. Whichever path you pursue (and there are many), you’re sure to receive the same quintessential Bain experience that Bainies around the world say make this one of the most rewarding and enriching firms to join.
27.23% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#3
NERA Economic Consulting EMEA
NERA Economic Consulting understands what many people can’t: economics. The firm provides economic advice, analysis, expert testimony, and regulatory insight for global clients throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. NERA specializes in bringing academic analysis and rigor, objectivity, and real-world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.
22.17% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#4
EY Consulting Practice EMEA
Ernst & Young is one of the global Big Four accounting firms. They are best known for providing audit, tax, business risk, technology and security risk services, and human capital services. Through four service lines—assurance, consultancy, strategy, and transactions—they help transform businesses.
11.31% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#6
Frontier Economics Ltd.
Frontier is a European economics consultancy. The firm has expertise in finance, statistical modelling, game theory, market research and even the psychological side of economics. They help companies with market strategies, regulatory reviews, competition inquiries. And they help governments design innovative policies and regulatory systems.
11.01% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#7
Deloitte (EMEA Consulting Practice)
Deloitte is a global provider of audit, tax, financial services and consulting. The firm is one of the Big Four accounting organizations. Services include corporate strategy, marketing and sales strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and innovation; manufacturing operations including supply chain; sector-specific service operations; infrastructure operations including outsourcing advisory and shared services; and financial management.
10.71% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#5
FTI Consulting Inc. EMEA
FTI Consulting is a global consulting firm that works with organizations facing crises and transformative periods. It primarily helps organizations like multinational corporations, law firms, banks, and private equity firms manage and mitigate financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational, and transactional risks. The firm has been an advisor in some of the most headline-grabbing moments in history, including the Bernie Madoff investigation, the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the Bush vs. Gore dispute, the Major League Baseball steroid case, the Ed Sheeran copyright infringement case, and many more.
10.57% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#13
Oliver Wyman EMEA
Oliver Wyman’s European presence spans almost two dozen countries in Europe and the Middle East. A people-focused firm that prides itself on connectedness and collaboration, Oliver Wyman strives to staff consultants on the projects that best suit their talents regardless of their home office. This makes international travel and opportunity the norm—not the exception.
9.38% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#11
RBB Economics
RBB Economics provides advisory services on all aspects of competition law. The firm has extensive experience providing consulting services on mergers and acquisitions, cartels and horizontal agreements, vertical agreements, dominance and monopoly inquiries, litigation and damages, regulatory issues, sector enquiries, and state aid. RBB serves clients across a number of industries, including banking and finance, broadcasting, chemicals and coatings, media, consumer goods, industrial and automotive, information and communication technology, and mining and forestry, among others.
9.08% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#10
KPMG (Europe Consulting Practice)
KPMG is a multinational professional services network and one of the Big Four accounting firms. Organized as a network of firms that each bring services to clients, KPMG spans strategy and operations, analytics, business integration, business intelligence, business process management, change management, growth enablement, integrated business planning, organizational design, outsourcing, shared services, talent management, technology enablement, and transformation. On the risk management side, they offer advisory services in financial risk management, forensic, internal audit, risk and compliance, and IT.
8.93% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#8
PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) International Ltd.
Casual jobseekers are forgiven for wondering, “Is PricewaterhouseCoopers an accounting firm, a consulting firm, or something else entirely?” The answer is “yes”, and therein lie the possibilities. The second-largest professional services firm in the world, PwC offers a wild amount of opportunities for employees and clients to join a global network of problem solvers dedicated to transforming the industries it serves.
8.78% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#9
Gartner EMEA
Gartner is one of the most trusted and prestigious research and advisory firms in the world. Gartner’s research doesn’t just analyze trends in the industry—it sets those trends—and Gartner employees believe that the world’s most comprehensive collection of technology, data, and tools is what drives their learning and development as professionals. Thriving on the frontlines of innovation, Gartner is a place for the tech savvy and the business oriented.
6.85% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#12
Alvarez & Marsal EMEA
A&M provides global leadership, problem-solving, and value creation for companies across industries and around the world. The firm’s consultants work as advisers, interim leaders, and partners who tell clients what they need to know, not always what they want to hear. The firm is focused on practical, action-oriented advice for its clients, rather than theoretical.
6.25% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
AlixPartners EMEA
With offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, AlixPartners is an international advisory firm that built its reputation through its work in corporate turnaround and restructuring. The firm is often associated with reversing the fortunes of companies in high-impact situations. The ideal hire is someone with around a decade of industry experience, who will be able to hit the ground running and immediately begin impacting a client's business.
5.80% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
