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PwC trainee takes time off for Haiti relief mission     Oliver Hurst, a trainee with city firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, set out to Haiti as part of a specialist volunteer team to support relief efforts in the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated the island nation.       Hurst, 25, a qualified engineer, pilot, and fluent in French, will provide     project management support and translation services to a ten strong volunteer team of doctors and medics representing charity Emmanuel Global Network UK. The charity brings together the skills of volunteers to help developing countries, and the group travelling to Haiti includes doctors and medics who will work with the Jamaican Red Cross and a     implications, but when my team found out, everyone has been so supportive.”       Hurst originally joined PwC in 2008 after completing a BEng in Mechanical Engineering in Bristol, and spending two years with the RAF, where he learned to fly aircraft. He was born in Singapore, grew up in Botswana, and subsequently lived in     South Africa, and Kuwait.       PwC is supporting the Disaster Emergency Committee’s Haiti appeal, matching employee donations to raise up to £100,000. The firm’s annual charity panto, Snow White, begins next week in the West End and is also diverting part of its fund raising activity to support the     local Haitian charity to set up a mobile surgery in Arcahaie.       “I chose to get involved because I genuinely think I have something to offer, and if you’re able to do something, you should. When I found out about the opportunity I didn’t really consider the work

Deloitte creates a new business in the real estate advisory market     Deloitte aims to create a new model in the real estate advisory market with the addition to the firm of Drivers Jonas, the UK’s oldest property advisory firm. The deal will create a business group of around 700 partners and professionals, significantly extending Deloitte’s capability in this market.       The combined Real Estate Group, with annual revenues in excess of £110m, will deliver real estate advisory and transaction expertise to the firm’s clients in all markets and industries. It will also form a critical part of Deloitte’s wider £200m Real Estate industry team, which specialises in providing professional services to real estate clients.           The deal will see over 650 Drivers Jonas partners and employees join Deloitte. Nick Shepherd, managing partner of Drivers Jonas will become managing partner of the Real Estate Group which will trade as Drivers Jonas Deloitte and he will join the Deloitte Executive.       John Connolly, senior partner and chief executive of Deloitte, commented: “This is a very exciting transaction, which will truly differentiate us in this sector. Together Deloitte and Drivers Jonas will offer an unrivalled breadth and depth of services and expertise. The companies have worked alongside each other over many years. We have the     capital markets.       “The wider Deloitte business gives unparalleled access to international investors, property companies, sovereign wealth funds and high net worth individuals, who play such a key role in the operation of the capital markets. We see huge opportunity in combining Deloitte’s real estate skills and wider business expertise with our full range of property and construction services. No competitor will be able to provide an integrated offer combining real estate knowledge, tax, finance and structuring advice in this way to UK and international investors and occupiers.”       Connolly concluded:     “Deloitte has a history of rapid growth through innovative moves in the market. This is a significant step in our ambition to be uniquely positioned as a provider of the broadest range of high value advisory services to support our clients. The Drivers Jonas teams in France and Germany will complement the presence already established in a number of countries across Europe.”       This transaction, which is expected to complete in March 2010, follows the announcement earlier this month that Deloitte is to acquire ReportSource, the leading business performance and information management consultancy.     highest regard for the culture, integrity and professionalism of their people and I believe the combination will provide significant opportunity for all the staff in the newly established business as we capitalise on the prospects created by this exciting new model.”       Nick Shepherd, managing partner of Drivers Jonas, commented: “The merger of our partnership with Deloitte provides our real estate teams with a fantastic platform from which to build our advisory business and further develop our service offering in the

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