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Headquartered in London, PwC UK is one of the largest professional services firms in the UK, and the Japanese Business Network (JBN), established in 1985, is the longest-running country network within the PwC global network. The JBN UK team specialises in supporting Japanese-owned companies and groups in the UK, and providing advice to non-Japanese companies looking to invest or expand their business in Japan.
Our network of professionals with in-depth knowledge of the local business culture, industry, legal systems, tax, accounting, audit and regulatory frameworks in both Japan and the UK are focused on helping Japanese businesses respond to today’s rapidly changing business environment.
Our Major Services
Our team offers a wide range of services tailored to your needs across different lines of service:
- Assurance
- Tax
- Legal
- HR and personal tax
- Consulting
- Deals
Assurance
Audit
- Accounting compliance
- Financial statement audits and financial reporting assurance
- Actuarial consulting and valuation
- Sustainability reporting and assurance
- UK-SOX and J-SOX compliance advisory
- Stakeholder assurance
Risk
- Risk modelling
- Governance risk and compliance
- Internal audit advisory and co-sourcing
- Technology, data and analytics
- Cybersecurity
- Capital markets, accounting advisory and structuring and initial public offering (IPO) support
- Commercial control and capital projects
- Operational resilience, crisis, and continuity
- Marketing and media
Tax
Tax compliance and assurance
- Accounting compliance
- Corporate tax advice
- Customs compliance
- Tax managed services
International tax and strategy
- Global tax management and structuring
- Japanese tax havens and foreign tax credit advice
- Transfer pricing advice, including global value chain transformation
Indirect taxes
- Indirect taxes (qualifying VAT disclosures, correction and recovery of incorrect VAT payments etc.)
- Tax and customs planning and optimisation
- Environmental tax advice
Investment support
- M&A and related tax consulting
- Tax due diligence and tax risk
- Innovation and capital incentives (R&D claims, capital allowances etc)
- Investment tax
Other
- Tax dispute resolution
- Digital tax academy (training solution)
Legal
- Incorporation advice
- Legal entity simplification and business restructuring
- Pre- and post-transaction corporate restructuring
- Cross-border reorganisation and migration advice
- M&A legal advice, negotiation support and document drafting
- Joint ventures and partnering
- Legal due diligence
- Commercial contract advice
- Banking and finance legal support
- Environmental legal support
- Corporate governance
- Advice on Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) reporting requirements.
- Labour law consulting (employment law compliance, best practices and benchmarking etc)
- Pension-related legal support
- Real estate-related legal advice
- Commercial and tax litigation resolution support
- Support on liquidation and deregistration
- Data protection and cyber advice
- IP rights, licences, permission, regulatory compliance, etc.
HR and personal tax
HR and personal tax
- HR managed services
- Salary benchmarking
- Labour management and HR policy
- Executive remuneration planning
- HR management system development
- International assignment planning
- Intermediary services with tax authorities
Pensions and benefits
- Pension advisory
- Benefits and defined contribution pension support
- Benefit brokering with providers
- Benefit benchmarking
Reward and employment
- Payroll outsource service and advice
- UK short-term business visitor compliance and reporting
- UK PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA) compliance and reporting
- UK taxable benefit reporting (P11Ds)
- Shares and securities reporting
- Benefits and expenses support
- Contingent labour reviews
- HMRC enquiries and dispute support
- Pay governance (national minimum wage, holiday pay etc.)
- Cross-border employment tax
- Payroll reporting and support for directors and non-resident directors
- Gender pay gap reporting (for employers with 250 or more employees)
Consulting
Strategy and market entry
- Market entry research and strategy
- Strategy consulting
Transformation
- Transformation (digital, finance, business model, HR etc.)
HR consulting
- Workforce management
- Organisational strategy and design
- HR managed services
- HR technology
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Change management
- Leadership training and development
- Pension advisory
ESG
- Sustainability strategy
- Net zero
- Sustainability finance and investments
- Sustainability compliance
Digital and technology consulting
- Cybersecurity and privacy
- Forensics
- Data analytics
- Emerging technologies (AI, robotics, blockchain etc.)
Deals
Business restructuring
- Acquiring or disposing of non-core or distressed assets
- Advice on business restructuring
- Corporate simplification and entity restructuring
- Cost reduction
- Debt and capital advisory
- Financial restructuring advisory
- Insolvency
- Real estate restructuring
- Working capital optimisation
Transactions
- Transaction advice
- Lead advisory
- Advice on M&A strategy and target selection
- Financial modelling and valuation
- Sell-side and buy-side due diligence support
- Negotiation strategy
- Advice on real estate transactions
- Asset or business valuations
- Bid support and defence
- Equity price negotiation for sale and purchase agreements
- Project fundraising, refinancing and valuations
Management strategy and improving corporate value
- Cash improvement and liquidity management
- Deal value creation
- Post merger integration
- M&A strategy, medium term strategy planning support
- Strengthening management operation capabilities
- Portfolio management and business restructuring
- Management transformation support (governance, management accounting, workplace reform)
- Business turnaround support using data analytics
- Crisis response
- Deal analytics
- Joint venture
- Real estate transitions (restructuring)
Infrastructure finance
- Capital markets access support
- Capital project structuring
UK JBN Members
Territory Leader
Assurance
Iwan Griffiths
Partner, Assurance
Rahul Tokhi
Director, Risk Assurance
Ichiro Ushikoshi
Senior Manager, Assurance
Kenta Inoue
Manager, Assurance
Alan Williams
Manager, Assurance Risk Assurance - Financial Services
Consulting
Mayuka Kowaguchi
Senior Manager, Workforce Transformation
Masahiko Komatsu
Senior Manager
Mariia Lakhonina
Manager
Tax
David Yates
Partner, International Tax
Anne-Frances Reid
Director, Financial Services Tax
John Shuker
Director, Indirect Tax
Matt Bridger
Director, Employment Tax
Takuya Nakahara
Senior Manager, Tax Governance and Reporting
Michiko Kasama
Senior Manager, Direct Tax
David Rawcliffe
Senior Manager, Indirect Tax
Adam Sharp
Manager, Direct Tax
Koichi Nishio
Manager, Direct Tax
Hiroshi Niwa
Manager, Transfer Pricing Tax
Legal
Georgie Blyth
Partner, Company Law, Legal
Matthew Timmons
Partner, Entity Governance and Compliance
Jonathan Harries
Senior Manager, Employment Law
Others
Junko Kohama
Marketing Manager, Japanese Business Network - UK
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Overseas business support contacts for Japanese companies
Meet our JBN (Japan Business Network) representatives in countries around the world.
