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

Creating opportunities from distress in a challenging power sector
Live webcast date and time: May 23, 2013 1-2PM EST

Although the economy has shown signs of improvement, a significant amount of stress, uncertainty and volatility still exist in the marketplace, both domestically and globally. In the power sector, this uncertainty and volatility is heightened, with key factors, including supply/demand, natural gas, and environmental regulation, shaping the sector landscape. An understanding of the impacts of these key factors is paramount to navigating complexity, addressing distress and uncovering opportunities in the current marketplace.

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Topics include:

  • Current state of the power sector
  • Key considerations
  • Opportunities in the marketplace

Previous webcasts

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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