Running a successful business requires solid planning and the timely execution of strategic initiatives. Transactions—including acquisitions, divestitures, IPOs and alliances—often expedite the achievement of these goals. The best performing companies choose acquisition targets and alliance partners more carefully, and actively manage their portfolio by selling or outsourcing operations whenever economic or strategic considerations dictate.
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ transaction services group advises corporations and private equity firms on how to use transactions more effectively to reach their business goals. We help clients understand trends in the market, assess the impact of regulatory changes, screen acquisition or alliance candidates, prepare for divestitures, and uncover hidden opportunities, risks and deal issues, whether the objective is to diversify, enter new markets, reduce costs, exit businesses, or raise capital.
With over 4,000 deal professionals in 40 countries, transaction services can deploy experienced deal teams—with deep industry knowledge with local market expertise— whenever and wherever you’re doing deals. Our services span the deal-making continuum from strategy through post-deal integration, and reflect our ongoing quest for leading practices gleaned from advising many of the world's leading corporations and private equity firms in the following areas:
- Deploying capital
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Alliances and joint ventures
- Raising capital
- Divestitures
- IPOs
- Private placements
- Understanding deal dynamics
- Financial and tax
- Technical accounting and valuation
- Strategic and commercial
- Human resources
- Risk management and insurance
- Resolving transaction accounting and valuation issues
- Integrating an acquisition
