Private equity

Our deals practitioners work with private equity investors across the investment cycle, including: pre-financing, sourcing strategies, commercial and operational due diligence, post-investment performance transformation and value realisation, portfolio review, buyout/exit strategy, and synergy strategies.

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In addition to our core functional services that span tax, accounting, and audit services, our work at the fund level includes strategy execution, operationalisation, and digital enablement of the fund.We see your business as a whole, and treat you as one client to bring significant economies of scale and efficient and effective planning, execution and response. Our integrated approach allows us to help create deal value by building the critical link between strategy and execution. At the management company and fund level, our team can assist your key personnel’s critical activities.

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Our approach brings together our rigorous financial acumen, coupled with our strategy and operational specialists underpinned by our deep data, analytics, and technology capabilities to help deliver the outcomes and performance returns to our clients.We work with clients to design and execute portfolio optimisation and growth solutions centered on strategic positioning of the business, operational improvement, growth solution and revenue enhancement, and balance sheet optimisation. PwC has developed a specialised unit in our Private Equity Value Creation (PEVC) practice that is exclusively focused on advising private equity with a robust analytics based approach to rapidly identify commercial, operational, and digital value creation levers.

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Environmental factors are changing the way we live and work at a rapid pace, driving organisations to rethink their strategy and transform their business, all while reporting progress transparently. At PwC, we’ve made a clear commitment to sustainability ourselves, and we’re ready to help our clients to also reach their own goals, exceed stakeholder expectations and redefine their value proposition. We help define sustainability strategies that will positively impact business and society, including designing sustainability strategy programs, governance and control solutions, data and reporting, and embedding sustainability levers and protocols into value creation playbooks.

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Our Corporate Finance practice provides lead-advisory services across a wide range of situations including sell-side and buy-side M&A; debt and equity fundraising; infrastructure and real-estate investment, financing and operations; and the sale and purchase of portfolios of assets. We work with other verticals in our wider Deals business to provide our clients with holistic and industry sector-specific support across their transactions, and leverage our extensive global network to source buyers for assets and providers of finance from across the world. Our business is globally connected, sector-focussed, value and data-driven, and tech enabled.

We work with private equity investors and portfolio companies on challenging situations that involve distressed businesses or underperforming companies, leveraging the expertise and capability of our Business Restructuring Services practice. This specialised global practice focuses uniquely on restructuring and sustainable financial and operational improvement across all industries and geographies.