Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is selling its U.S. public-sector consulting business to private-equity fund Veritas Capital.

The business, which has about 1,500 PwC partners and staff, provides management and technology consulting and other services to federal-government agencies, such as the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, and to state and local governments. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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