Assurance, tax and advisory services tailored to you and your private business
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Your vision. Our dedication
Ownership is bigger than just the business. It’s responsibility. It’s sacrifice. It’s your legacy. We are dedicated to helping you maximise your vision. Drawing on our global network of tech-powered experts, we’re here to help with every stage of your journey—from managing priorities, to nurturing growth and planning for exit. Let’s take care of business, together.
Five key business priorities for private company owners
Business, made personal
Throughout our history, private businesses have always been a priority for PwC. In fact, we’ve been working with companies like yours for over 175 years. Helping them grow, strengthen and—when and if the time is right—sell. We know business can be personal. So we’ll help you turn your opportunities into impact. And your ambition into success.
By your side, today, tomorrow
As the needs of your private business change, our support adapts. Through a global team of trusted advisers and tech-powered specialists, we’re ready to move on any challenge—and help you maximise every opportunity. Dedicated, responsive, proactive—we’re here for you today, and ready for your future.
Connections that count
The right markets. The ideal connections. The best technologies. We know where to look to find the catalysts your business needs. Reaching across our global communities, we’ll connect you with people that can help you achieve your goals—and scale your business.
The Owner’s Agenda for your business
At PwC, we’re dedicated to understanding what matters most to you and your business. We call our approach “The Owner’s Agenda”. This framework is designed to assist you in developing both your ownership and business strategies in a consistent and integrated way, reflecting that you sit at the heart of each of them, and that your agenda encompasses both.
No matter where you are on your business journey, your PwC team is at your side translating its unique vantage point and perspective into real insights that can help you succeed. Together, we can find new opportunities, and shape the future of your business. We’re built around you.
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Family businesses
We help family businesses grow, professionalise and prepare for tomorrow while safeguarding continuity for generations. From family governance, succession and business continuity; next‑gen education and transition; private wealth and family offices; philanthropy, values, purpose—and more.
Family offices
Opportunities. Risks. Legacy. While every family office is different, their challenges and goals are often very similar. We’ve identified four key cornerstones so your family office is future-ready—firmly rooted in your family values.
Succession Planning: Preparing the generations in the waiting
Succession is one of the most critical factors in sustaining the success and continuity of any family business. This means it isn’t simply an event, but a process that must be planned carefully. Considering that only about 30 percent of family businesses survive into a second generation, we help you prepare the generations in the waiting.
Your main concerns:
- A generation gap between founders and the new generations;
- Lack of communication with future generations;
- Educating the next generation; and
- Braindrain of talent.
How we can help you:
- Preparing the next generation through extensive business knowledge education;
- Facilitating business connect to drive value;
- Preparing of tax planning for cost-saving succession;
- Setting up of family compliance and succession regulations; and
- Setting up of family council.
Governance: Strengthening your ownership with corporate and family governance
Effective family governance reinforces your feeling of belonging and personal identification with your company. Going beyond corporate governance, family businesses are complementing family governance structures as well as a way to strengthen ownership.
Your main concerns:
- Leadership difficulties;
- Setting up control mechanisms;
- Family business relationship are blurred; and
- Experiencing difficulties in crisis and conflict management.
How we can help you:
- Formalising business relationships between family members;
- Creating a family advisory board;
- Developing a family employment policy;
- Drafting a family constitution;
- Setting up a holding company board; and
- Family education.
