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The British Columbia (BC) arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada (PwC) has merged with another BC-based firm, Staley, Okada & Partners (SO&P), in a move designed to enhance the Big Four firm's capabilities in the province's mining and private companies sectors.
John Webster, BC practice leader at PwC, said the merger will complement the firm's growth mandate: "Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver make up about 80 percent of our business so it's a very regional kind of marketplace here.
"As part of our growth we thought that, given our targets, we would probably need to merge with at least one firm and there were a number of firms that have emerged over the past few years that have started to grow to a decent size and have...