Darwin Partners Inc., a provider of IT services, will merge with Suzsoft Co., Ltd., a China-based provider of outsourced application development, quality assurance, and localization services.

The combined company will be the first of its kind in China - an offshore IT services company with US front-end capabilities, numerous established relationships within US clients across multiple industries.

It will focus geographically on the US, Asia and Europe and will have approximately 750 employees with plans to increase their workforce to over 1000 employees by year-end 2006.

Al Perkins, chairman of Darwin Partners, said, "By combining Darwin's front-end consulting and engagement management competencies with Suzsoft's China offshore development capabilities, the merger provides US-based IT and management consulting clients with a single-source for offshore delivery. Furthermore, Suzsoft's existing premium quality and offshore delivery capabilities complement Darwin's industry expertise in the financial services, high tech, telecommunications and health care verticals."

James Tong, CEO of Suzsoft, said, "The combined Darwin-Suzsoft management team brings to clients an integrated U.S.-China practice with experience in IT consulting directly relevant to CIOs of major U.S. corporations, offshore software development experience from India and China, and most importantly, a unified strategy on how to achieve the next generation of IT outsourcing via offshore development in China."

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