The Deals Strategy practice helps clients solve their most challenging strategic problems by taking an issue-based approach and bringing together insights.
Using PwC's unrivalled mix of capabilities, we are able to deliver insightful and practical solutions to businesses making key strategic decisions, across a wide range of sectors. Our deep knowledge of each sector means we are well-positioned to support your business in today's rapidly evolving market.
Energy, utilities, mining and infrastructure
Financial services
Healthcare
Industrial manufacturing and services
Retail, consumer and leisure
Technology, media and telecommunications
Our services
Corporate strategy
Commercial due diligence
We advise leadership teams on developing their strategies at group or business unit level to drive performance. We help companies make hard choices about what they want to be famous for (ambition), where they want to play (participation strategy), how they intend to win (competitive strategy) and what priorities to focus on (management agenda)
We work with you to drive international growth in mature and developing markets. We help you navigate the complexity about which countries/clusters to enter, which combination of models to adopt, and what implementation plan to put in place to unlock international opportunities at pace.
We help you set your business ambition, generate and evaluate key initiatives, identify other options to fill any gap versus your ambition, and deliver your plan. This gives confidence to stakeholders that targets will be met and focus to management on what to do and not to do.
We work with you to identify, screen and evaluate M&A targets to increase share of market, extend share of wallet and/or acquire core assets and capabilities. Our wider firm can support transactions and manage post-integration.
We help you to identify, prioritise and capture sustainable growth opportunities in your core business and from new sources. We work collaboratively with our clients to unlock growth opportunities in a creative but disciplined way.
We can support you in undertaking buy-side or vendor commercial due diligence in a variety of transaction scenarios including sale processes, acquisitions, and refinancing of both equity and debt. Our independent approach ensures we identify upside potential and risks.
We help companies prepare a business for sale to drive deal value by assisting management teams from developing their strategy and strategic plans, to writing business plans. Our independent approach challenges management to identify upside potential and mitigate risks.
We provide commercial insights during independent business reviews for both management teams and banks, typically during distressed situations. Our work helps identify the drivers of value and options for businesses to improve performance to support covenant setting and refinancing terms.
Our global strategy practice numbers more than 1,000 due diligence consultants, each with a specific sector focus enabling rapid diagnosis of key deal issues. Each member of the team can draw on the extensive expertise and the resources of PwC's worldwide industry network of over 195,000 people.
We regularly work alongside our financial and operational due diligence teams. As a result, PwC's conclusions are based on well-researched and integrated views on all aspects of the transaction.
Strategic insights
We generate fresh and relevant insights for our clients to help them make better business decisions with more confidence.
How we can help:
- Determine how will your business be impacted by the markets change in the next three to five years
- Prepare your business for any future scenarios
- Analyse the implications of changes
- Dive deep into competitor analysis
What makes us different
Our strategy practice is recognised for providing rigorous views of businesses and insightful, practical solutions with highly engaged, high calibre teams. For our strategy advice, this means:
- Strategy adviser of choice. Our financial and corporate clients choose to work with us to solve their most difficult problems and unlock their biggest opportunities.
- Rigorous views of businesses. We bring sector expertise and an independent perspective to develop views of businesses in a disciplined way. We work with clients at pace without compromising quality.
- Highly engaged, high calibre teams. We have outstanding individuals who work with clients to get things done and have received great feedback on what it is like to work with us.
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