In today’s fast-moving world, M&A transactions are complex and time critical. A legal adviser who understands the wider impact of a transaction on your business – on valuation, regulations, tax and beyond – can help you design a direct path toward your long-term goals.
Our global legal network mobilizes to support every phase of the deals process. Leveraging experts from across our tax, deals, consulting and assurance practices, we pull the right people into the deal at the right time, helping you maximize value.
We see the broader picture – not just the transaction at hand – and give you clear, actionable advice. With the depth and scale of PwC on your side, you can find key opportunities, navigate complex transactions, and execute deals with confidence.
Regardless of how you are growing or restructuring, we can help you optimize the value of the outcome. Our legal services span the entire M&A spectrum, including company acquisitions, sales, private equity, venture capital transactions, joint ventures, carve-out projects, distressed transactions, IPOs and takeovers.
With legal practitioners in 95+ territories, we bring a global mindset without losing sight of relevant, local issues. Our expertise gives clients an edge – agility, speed and confidence – across the entire transaction lifecycle.
No matter where you are in the world, or what stage you are navigating in the transaction process, PwC has the skills and global scale that you need to support every step of your M&A strategy.
We can bring together the right mix of PwC lawyers, consultants, commercial advisers, tax advisers and strategists to help you execute every phase of your cross-border deal in the most efficient way possible. An illustrative example is set out below:
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M&A transactions affect the entire business, extending well beyond legal issues only. That’s why we approach M&A from a broader, more collaborative perspective. We bring the right people and the right technology together, to explore more possibilities and deliver sound, holistic advice across the legal, tax, regulatory and financial disciplines. Our well-rounded expert support helps you find and capture value, all the way through the deal to integration.
We also deliver deep insight across sectors. Our PwC team includes industry specialists who understand the nuances of each issue, whether they relate to health care, energy, IT, automotive, manufacturing or more. By working with an integrated team, you can maximise the efficiency of your transaction processes, and focus on matters that make the most difference to your business.
You need a structure that is tax effective, legally compliant and operationally efficient. We can guide you there.
We take a multidisciplinary approach to structuring and drafting M&A transaction documents. As a single, integrated provider, PwC can help you consider the risks and opportunities in your documentation, without letting details falling through the cracks. You need a trusted partner that can help you manage risk through multiple lenses. That’s what we do.
Our expertise goes beyond borders, reaching you wherever you need us. With nearly 1,000 M&A lawyers across the world, plus an extensive network of broader tax, legal and consulting specialists, our global team is seamlessly connected by technology and committed to helping you thrive.
Wherever we operate, we deliver purpose-driven and focused practitioners whose advice is tailored to the broader economic, political and societal contexts. Leveraging our Centres of Excellence, we also bring the efficiencies and outcomes that you would expect from a well-rehearsed transaction partner.
We have the expertise to support the entire lifecycle of your transaction, from preliminary considerations and information memoranda to tech-enabled due diligence, contract negotiation, transaction structuring, warranty and indemnity insurance, merger control, SPA documentation, closing and post-deal integration. We make sure your deals bring value to the organisation, and protect your investment by ensuring regulations, tax and other issues are accounted and planned for.
Our holistic approach removes blind spots, so insights and issues are spotted efficiently. Get in touch today to understand how PwC can support your next M&A transaction.
We use Legal Centres of Excellence and technical solutions to maximize efficiency, even in the context of the most challenging M&A projects. Our Centre of Excellence specialists can provide a broad spectrum of support, from initial research, all the way through to large-scale document automation and review, e-discovery, project management and execution support (including eSign management). We also leverage a broad range of legal technology, including artificial intelligence and machine-learning solutions, to speed up key transaction processes such as due diligence. This blended approach – using the right technology and the right talent at the right times – reduces timelines, and helps you manage cost and risk.
Carmen Millan Cruz
M&A Legal Leader, Global Legal Business Solutions Network, Partner, PwC Spain
Tel: +34 686 45 78 25
