Deals

How can you maximise the value of your acquisition, sale or strategic alliance?

The PwC Private Clients Deals team supports you to prepare and execute a transaction and ensures your acquisition, sale or strategic alliance pays off. We aim to grow your personal and business wealth like it was our own.

How we can help you

  • Assist you in maximising the price you receive when selling a business with the minimum investment and minimising the price you pay when buying a business with the minimum investment.
  • Provide decision support analysis for transactions.
  • Prepare your business for sale by:
    Readiness: advise on sale structures, manage the due diligence process (financial, tax, legal and commercial), provide valuation advice and identify the best buyers or investors, be they financial or trade.

    Marketing:ensure the key points about your business are captured in any information documents or presentations so that the company is presented in the best possible light. Tactically, advise you on prioritising the right party or parties with which to engage and getting the selling messages right for those parties.

    Negotiation: assist with negotiations to complete the transaction so that you achieve best price on the right terms in the appropriate timescale.
  • Support execution of acquisition strategy – identify and evaluate potential acquisition targets, provide valuation advice, assist with negotiations and manage the due diligence process (financial, tax, legal and commercial).
  • Complete due diligence on identified acquisition targets (financial, tax, legal and commercial).
  • Complete vendor due diligence (financial, tax, legal and commercial) on behalf of the seller to minimise interruption to the business being sold and forearm the vendor.
  • Assist with capital raising including looking at venture capital, private equity, infrastructure funding and initial public offerings (IPOs).
  • Assist with post-deal services including integration, 100 day plans and budgeting.
  • Provide Employee Equity Services advice including employee equity plan design and associated issues.