The professional services and consultancy firm has announced the new admissions to partner in Asia.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has admitted 53 new partners across its firms in Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore, taking the total partnership headcount to more than 850.

Among the new intake, 31 are based in mainland China, eight in Hong Kong, six in Taiwan and eight in Singapore. Some 23 new partners are with the assurance practice, 16 in tax, 12 in advisory and two from the “One Firm Services” division.

Stressing its move to push diversity, PwC said 19 of the new partners are women.

In addition to new partner admissions, around 2,800 new graduates have joined within the year, bringing our staff number to over 21,000.

PwC was unable to provide WealthBriefingAsia with a net figure for an overall change in the number of partners (taking into account departures).