London | Is McKinsey a partnership? That is how it thinks of itself, how it governs itself and how it projects itself to clients and potential recruits. It is “the world’s leading partnership”, no less, according to Kevin Sneader, who ran the management consultancy from 2018 to 2021.

But the meaning of partnership is about to be put under a microscope, externally, thanks to a lawsuit filed in a New York court and, internally, as a result of a governance review launched after two messy leadership elections.

Financial Times