Deals, Strategy

Deals are an opportunity – for faster growth, stronger capabilities and dramatic transformation. Harnessing this potential requires foresight that only comes from a deep fluency in deals, coupled with data-driven insights that help you make decisions confidently. Doing deals requires speed, flexibility to react, experience and confidence.

Exactly what you get when you work with PwC. Deals Strategy and Operations Overview: As businesses grow and become more complex, they navigate complicated transactions. Our growing Deals Strategy and Operations practice helps executives achieve strategic growth objectives for their organizations by driving informed and empowered acquisition, divestiture and reorganization decisions. Our deals professionals help companies across the deal continum developing the right strategy, identifying issues and points of negotiation and value, executing the deal seamlessly, and implementing changes to deliver synergies and improvements post integration. In summary our business unit takes strategy to execution to create value to shareholders.

Our Deals Strategy and Operations team offers strategic advice to a broad range of investors including the leading private equity houses, family offices, major banks, and companies undertaking mergers and acquisitions or investment opportunities.

We deliver deep commercial and operational insights into the attractiveness of a transaction, helping clients think through investment/divestment decisions about businesses

. We advise our clients on critical operational and transformational challenges around Merger and Acquisition activity that are focus on deal value (EBITDA) driven initiatives. We also evaluate business plans and company strategies against market performance and competitor strength, to deliver a rigorous appraisal of a business' commercial and operational outlook

. The Deals operations team is part of the Deals Strategy and Operations business unit. Our fast growing practice is looking to double the team in the next 12 to 18 months.

It focuses on providing support for potential, actual transactions and assists clients in all operational integration aspects of the transaction, pre and post completion, including:

Buy side operational, integration due diligence; Synergy development and review; Sell-side due diligence; Carve-out; Turnaround; Taking control and 100 day planning; Value creation plan;

Mergers and Acquisitions Integration; Post-acquisition performance improvement. As part of the transaction process, the Deals operations team develops a rapid understanding of the target, client business in order to quickly assimilate the key operational issues, synergies, risks and value upsides around a transaction.

We report our findings real time to our clients but, typically, we will also produce clear, written reports articulating our findings for any purchaser or vendor