Deals webcast series

In today's deal environment, value creation is a focus more important than ever with greater disparity in the competition for deals and the pace at which deals are completed. To help you minimize risk and capture value at the deal table and beyond, we invite you to join us for our ongoing webcast discussions about deal considerations. CPE credits are offered for live webcast participation.  If you have questions about CPE credits, please visit our CPE FAQ page.


Previous webcasts

Generating value from corporate divestitures in 2012: Operational and financial considerations
Original webcast: Feb. 22, 2012
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Topics include:

  • Market observations
  • Divestiture process
  • Operational separation for a divestiture
  • Financial issues for a divestiture
 

Evaluating and addressing HR infrastructure on deals
Original webcast: Jan. 9, 2012
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Topics include:

  • Components of the HR delivery platform
  • Understanding HR allocations
  • Quantifying the ongoing and set up cost of the future platform
  • Implementing a new HR delivery platform
  • Outsourcing key HR functions
  • Implications for HR headcount
  • Integrating HR platforms
  • Opportunities in organizational structure
 

M&A Outlook for 2012
Original webcast: Dec. 19, 2011
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Topics include:

  • What we've seen in dealmaking throughout 2011, both with strategic buyers and private equity firms
  • Who have been the most active M&A participants
  • How access to capital, regulation and other macro factors are impacting M&A
  • What we think will drive M&A in 2012
  • M&A dynamics in key industry sectors
  • Global dealmaking dynamics affecting M&A in the US
 

Balanced Growth - Behind the Great Wall: Opportunities and Challenges in Chinese Deals
Original webcast: December 14, 2011
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In 2010 alone more than 4,000 transactions valued at over $200 billion dollars were recorded in China, representing a 16% increase in deal volume and a 27% increase in deal value over the previous year. This webcast features China M&A specialists Curt Moldenhauer and Waikay Eik, both PwC Transaction Services partners who discuss::

  • How companies can achieve their growth objectives within China.
  • Creating sustainable value within the deal environment of today's China.
  • How to navigate typical China deal execution issues and how to manage post-deal integration in order to increase value.
 

Insurance M&A:
Original webcast: December 6, 2011
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Topics include:

  • Recent trends and outlook relating to P&C
  • Life insurance and insurance broker M&A in the US
  • PwC insights relating to common deal issues relating to these sectors
 

Leveraging the finance M&A function to deliver deal value
Original webcast: November 2, 2011
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Topics include:

  • Finding and getting your team to embrace the deal objectives that matter
  • Historical vs. changing roles of finance in early and late-stage deal activity
  • Finance's definition of M&A success
  • Measuring the success of M&A and synergy tracking
  • Lessons learned from top deal makers and successful integrators
 

Goodwill impairment testing:
Original webcast: October 18, 2011
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Topics include:

  • Reviewing how to use the qualitative approach outlined by the new standard -- which we call "Step 0"
  • How this process may reduce costs by streamlining the annual goodwill impairment testing process
 

Implications of potential tax reform on complex domestic and cross-border transactions
Original webcast: October 6, 2011
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Topics include:

1. Tax Legislative Update

  • Proposed Rules
  • Market Reaction/Response
  • Proactive Planning

2. Territorial vs. worldwide system of taxation which could have major impact on the international structures of transactions

3. Cross-Border M&A Planning

  • Techniques to reduce global cash taxes
  • Tax treaties
  • Financial statement implications (including APB No. 23)
 

Navigating the tax and accounting gaps in M&A reporting
Original webcast: August 25, 2011
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Topics include:

  • Variables that create differences between book vs. tax valuation
  • Asset vs. stock deals: the impact on valuation
  • Overview of tax purchase price allocation rules
  • Allocation differences: book vs. tax
  • Integrating tax and book valuation processes
  • Potential traps to avoid
 

Successful deal execution in emerging markets
Original webcast: July 27, 2011
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Topics include:

  • Trends in emerging markets
  • What's driving investment in emerging markets
  • Emerging market implications to competition, government and business
  • Buy versus build considerations - Greenfield and brownfield options in hot markets
  • Challenges and risks faced by dealmakers in the "hot" emerging markets
  • Mitigating the risks - financial due diligence considerations
  • Foreign Corrupt Practices Act implications of some "standard" business practices
  • Alternative business structures to consider
 

Private equity and environmental sustainability — Creating long term value
Original webcast: June 30, 2011
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Topics include:

  • What sustainability means for private equity on multiple dimensions: strategically, operationally, financially and reputationally.
  • How private equity firms can use sustainability as a competitive advantage.
  • Which sustainability metrics are robust and really matter?
  • How can private equity firms integrate sustainability into their investment strategy to drive long term value from future portfolio companies?
 

Preparing for a successful IPO
Original webcast: May 24, 2011
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Topics include:

  • Regulatory, financial, organizational, people and technical issues facing companies contemplating an IPO
  • The preparation necessary to ensure IPO readiness
  • The transition and long term effects of becoming a public company
 

Technology industry executive webcast (with M&A hot topics and IPOs)
Original webcast March 25, 2011
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Topics include:

  • Cloud computing
  • M&A trends
  • 2010 IPO review
 

Hidden insurance-related issues that impact deal value 
Original webcast: March 23, 2011
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Topics include:

  • Importance of insurance risks and why they are hidden
  • Impacts on transaction economics
  • Tactics to assess risk
  • Strategies to mitigate risks to deal value
 

Generating value from Corporate Divestitures in 2011 
Original webcast: February 23, 2011
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Topics include:

  • Macroeconomic trends and their impacts on the divestiture market
  • Forecasts of the divestiture market in 2011
  • Drivers of a successful divestiture process
  • Common pitfalls that sellers experience in the M&A process
  • Strategies that corporate managers are undertaking to avoid the pitfalls and maximize sell-side value in the current environment
 

How deals have changed: Lessons learned from the M&A accounting standards
Original webcast: January 25, 2011
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Topics include:

  • Changing deal structures
  • Evolving acquisition terms
  • Determining the right level of pre-deal analysis
  • Shifting diligence processes
  • New and upcoming issues in acquisition-related accounting
 

Deal Trends in the Insurance Industry
Original webcast: December 15, 2010
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Topics include:

  • How to structure deals in an environment that is very different from even three years ago
  • Potential changes in the markets for deals– notably an increasingly active Asian market and an uncertain European one
  • How M&A activity may be impacted in the wake of a great deal of regulatory standard setting activity, uncertainty over new tax regulations, new regulatory oversight and potential changes in capital requirements.