McKinsey Moves Moscow Staff to Kazakhstan

Like many banks, consultancy firms have announced they are pulling out of Russia in response to the country’s attack on Ukraine.

McKinsey is the next audit firm to announce that it is moving its Russia-based staff out of the country. It will be relocating them to its existing Almaty office in Kazakhstan, citing people familiar.

Along with KMPG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and EY, McKinsey announced that it was severing ties with Russian business partners soon after the war broke out in Ukraine.

McKinsey, whose clients included Rosneft and Gazprom, has over 700 staff in Russia, according to the report. Its Almaty office is also strongly focused on the energy sector, it said.

Furthermore, Boston Consulting Group is looking at relocating staff to Azerbaijan, the report added, citing a person familiar.