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 understand risk and identify opportunities to 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.
Upcoming webcasts
Executing Divestitures in Today’s Environment: Critical Success Criteria
Webcast date and time: June 18, 2013 1-2PM EST
As the global economy continues to gather steam, strategic and financial sponsors remain focused on deploying their cash in the M&A market. While companies focus on re-evaluating their portfolios and product strategies to capture value, streamlining core competencies and firming up platforms for growth, divestiture activity is set to accelerate. With this acceleration and private equity funds holding record amounts of cash, opportunity abounds. PwC's 2012 CEO Survey shows 22% of US CEO's focused on divestitures in the year ahead, versus 15% globally. And divestitures represented 30% of deal activity in 2012 and over 40% of disclosed value. What's it going to take to perfect the dealmaker’s art and extract maximum value from divestitures? How should they develop an effective divestiture strategy? What elements are essential to a successful divestiture plan? Whether it’s identifying profitable exit alternatives, preparing the business for sale, identifying and conveying key value measures, ensuring regulatory compliance, optimizing financial and tax structures or managing the transition and separation process, the answers required to be successful are both several and varied.
On June 18th, PwC will host a video roundtable discussion from Times Square in New York on how dealmakers can optimize the planning and execution of their divestiture in the months and years ahead. We'll look at the key criteria they should review at each stage of the divestiture transaction process. We'll get an understanding of what critical attributes they will need to demonstrate, from sourcing corporate and financial acquirers to managing the auction process to executing the divestiture, we'll examine the key criteria dealmakers should adopt to enhance their chances of success.
No CPE credit available.
The future of employer provided healthcare benefits: key considerations which could impact your deal in a post-health reform world
Live webcast date and time: June 25, 2013 1-2PM EST
Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) legislation was passed several years ago in 2010, the most significant changes are now front and center slated for a 2014 effective date. Virtually every company in the US will be and has already been impacted by health reform with certain sectors such as retail and consumer, entertainment and media, and healthcare feeling a more significant impact than others. For many organizations, ACA will have significant business and operational implications due to workforce implications including the potential impact on labor practices, and providing an employment package in order to attract and retain the right talent. In addition, these companies need to relook at their healthcare benefit strategies post-ACA in light of the new safety net as well as new taxes and incentives.
Companies are re-evaluating the role of the employer in providing healthcare benefits and analyzing when to pay and how to play, the role of public and private exchanges, approaches to bending the cost curve, and managing the compliance burdens created by ACA. For acquisitive companies, it is important for to assess the key risks and opportunities during diligence in order to understand the potential implications ACA can have on deal value, assess the key risks and opportunities during diligence. Companies looking to divest business units should be prepared to share a point of view with potential buyers as to the potential impact of ACA.
Topics include:
- Latest developments in health reform
- Implications on workforce and benefits strategies
- Specific M&A considerations
Previous webcasts
Creating opportunities from distress in a challenging power sector
Original webcast: May 23, 2013
Topics include:
- Current state of the power sector
- Key considerations
- Opportunities in the marketplace
Today's IPO environment: changing market conditions, new expectations for board members, and what you need to know about MLPs
Original webcast: April 25, 2013
Topics include:
- Current US IPO market activity and pipeline
- Governance issues
- The use of master limited partnerships
Why yesterday's seller is unprepared in today's changing divestiture market
Original webcast: March 26, 2013
Topics include:
- Market and activity trends
- Significant changes in buyer expectations
- Trends and new developments in data requirements
- Focus areas that cannot be ignored
- How to win in today's market
Using non-traditional consideration to close the M&A value gap
Original webcast: February 19, 2013
Topics include:
- Deals trends
- Bridging the value gap between buyer and seller
- Contingent consideration
- Put / call arrangements
Navigating the complexities of joint ventures and business alliances
Original webcast: January 24, 2013
Topics include:
- Motives for JVs and the types of vehicles used
- Complexities and challenges of JVs and business alliances
- The path to success
- Execution steps
PwC’s Year-End M&A Outlook for 2013
Original webcast: December 18, 2012
Topics covered:
- What we've seen in dealmaking throughout 2012, 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 2013
- M&A dynamics in key industry sectors
- Global dealmaking dynamics affecting M&A in the UShy integrations are so critical in achieving deal success
Successful execution of your M&A integration
Original webcast: November 15, 2012
Topics include:
- Why integrations are so critical in achieving deal success
- Pitfalls to watch out for during your integration process
- Applying the seven fundamental tenets to a successful integration
Going public - when, where and how much?
Original webcast: October 23, 2012
Topics include:
- Current US IPO market activity and pipeline
- Results from PwC's survey on the costs of going and being public
- Key considerations when choosing an exchange
- Preparation necessary to ensure IPO readiness and the transition to becoming a public company
Targeting the global emerging middle class with your M&A strategy
Original webcast: September 14, 2012
Topics include:
- The opportunity provided by the Global Emerging Middle
- Strategies for targeting the Global Emerging Middle and growing profitability
- Using M&A for your growth strategy around the Global Emerging Middle in key markets
Operational diligence considerations in deals
Original webcast: Jul. 24, 2012
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Topics include:
- Why operational diligence is a deal changer
- Top operational opportunities and red flags
- Operational diligence best practices
Using valuation diligence to uncover deal “blind spots”.
Original webcast: May 29, 2012
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Topics include:
- Recent trends and analysis of deal pricing vs. intrinsic value
- Common deal pricing pitfalls and how to avoid them
- How valuation diligence can help mitigate risks
IPOs in 2012: Executing a successful IPO in today’s market
Original webcast: Apr. 25, 2012
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Topics include:
- Overview of the current IPO market, pipeline and recent activity
- Regulatory, financial, organizational, people and technical issues facing companies contemplating an IPO
- Impact of the JOBS Act
- The preparation necessary to ensure IPO readiness
- The transition and long term effects of becoming a public company
Risk and opportunity in an uncertain economy
Original webcast: Mar. 23, 2012
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Topics include:
- The Financial Crisis — where are we now?
- Macroeconomic Trends affecting GDP and consumers
- Debt Markets and the Debt Maturity Wall
- Risks to business
- Opportunities for healthy companies
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
- John Potter
- Partner
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