EY bosses present united front after dispute over stalled break-up plan

EY’s feuding leaders said they were making progress in talks aimed at reviving the company’s plan to split in two, amid concern from clients about the future shape of the firm.

The joint statement sent to the Big Four accounting firm’s 13,000 partners on Friday marked a break from weeks of conflicting messages from the global leadership and EY’s US business, whose chair, Julie Boland, called a halt to planning for the split earlier this month.