Coopers & Lybrand

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Coopers & Lybrand was a major international accounting and professional services firm that became part of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) following its merger with Price Waterhouse.

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Coopers & Lybrand canonical 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf accounting firm
defunct company
professional services firm
alsoKnownAs C&L
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
dateFounded 1957
dateMerged 1998
dissolved 1998
formedByMergerOf Cooper Brothers & Co.
Lybrand, Ross Bros & Montgomery
foundedBy Adam A. Ross Jr.
Edwin S. Ross
Robert H. Montgomery
T. Edward Lybrand
William Cooper
hadClientType financial institutions
governments
public sector entities
hadClientType multinational corporations
hadLegalForm partnership
headquartersLocation London
linked to: London, England
industry accounting
professional services
legacyContinuedBy PwC
memberOf Big Six accounting firms
mergedWith Price Waterhouse
notableEvent creation of PricewaterhouseCoopers through 1998 merger with Price Waterhouse
operatedAsNetworkOf member firms
operatedIn Africa
Asia
Europe
Latin America
North America
originatedAs Cooper Brothers & Co. (founded 1854)
Lybrand, Ross Bros & Montgomery (founded 1898)
partOf Big Four predecessor firms
predecessor Cooper Brothers & Co.
Lybrand, Ross Bros & Montgomery
providedService audit
corporate finance advisory
management consulting
tax advisory
reasonForDissolution merger with Price Waterhouse
specializedIn assurance services
business advisory services
financial statement audit
risk management consulting
successor PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Price Waterhouse mergerPartner Coopers & Lybrand
Big Eight accounting firms composition Coopers & Lybrand
Price Waterhouse mergerPartner Coopers & Lybrand
subject linked to: PW
PricewaterhouseCoopers formedByMergerOf Coopers & Lybrand
subject linked to: PW
PricewaterhouseCoopers foundedBy Coopers & Lybrand