Global M&A industry trends: 2025 outlook
M&A in 2025: Big deals, winning hands, and wild cards. Megadeal momentum returns to the market—but dealmakers will need to expect the unexpected.
What does value mean to you?
Creating value in today’s market requires a broader and bolder perspective.
Whether you are seeking to cut costs, reinvent your business model or break into new markets, your approach to value will map your route to greater resilience, growth and opportunity.
Our Deals specialists combine in-depth experience with powerful technology to reinvent business models and break into new markets. It all adds up to The New Equation.
Together, we can create value.
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How can you create value amid disruption? Use a value bridge.
Knowing where to start when it comes to Value Creation can be difficult.
We use the value bridge to help our clients visualise and work through the key levers to prioritise strategies that will result in the highest value capture, strengthening your company's competitive positioning to help it come out ahead.
Every company situation is unique, so the application of the value bridge will vary by sector and for different circumstances.
How PwC can help with unlocking value
We understand that businesses are taking different paths in their pursuit of growth, but what makes each of these strategies successful? Every business has its own unique circumstances, but four broad strategies (which are not mutually exclusive) dominate: investing to grow, divesting and optimising, pivoting, and doing more with what you have.
Investing to grow
Businesses that rode out the pandemic strongly emerged in a good position to build on their strengths. While organic growth can be the right choice for some, for those with a surplus of cash and a healthy balance sheet, acquisition of a promising business can be the go-to option for growth.
We can help you develop or refine your strategy to achieve sustainable growth.
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Divesting and optimising
Companies that are focusing on their core business, selling off anything that no longer fits with the central strategy or purpose. It is an increasingly popular strategy – but doing it well takes care, planning and preparation.
We can help you optimise and assess the implications of your divestiture across the deal lifecycle, with a value creation mindset.
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Pivoting
Many businesses are forced to pivot by economic headwinds, but pivoting can be about opportunity and not just survival. A true pivot shifts the business to reflect changing customer needs and in doing so creates access to tangible benefits like revenue growth, increased profitability and a greater market share.
We can help you explore your business ambitions, evaluate key initiatives and identify opportunities for a successful pivot.
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Doing more with what you have
It is very rare to see true optimisation in large, complex businesses. More value can always be found, whether it’s through more efficient ways of working, maximising the potential for cross selling, or encouraging greater innovation and collaboration.
We can help you take a fresh perspective at business and operating models to help unlock greater value for growth.
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Insights and Publications
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Explore all options but be decisive (The Edge)
Albert Lee, Deals Partner and Surendran Seelan, Deals Director, PwC Malaysia, discuss why the ‘wait-and-see’ approach may not be the best move for business recovery.
Placing communication at the heart of restructuring (The Edge)
Building trust with stakeholders, typically creditors, is key to successful restructuring, writes Lee Chui Sum, Deals Partner and Joshua Jeyaraj, Deals Senior Manager, PwC Malaysia.
Cashing in on uncertain times is more than just a quick fix (The Edge)
Businesses that focus on cash flow during buoyant times are better placed to withstand downturns, shares Victor Saw, Deals Leader and Ganesh Gunaratnam, Deals Director, PwC Malaysia.
A CEO guide to today’s value creation ecosystem
The drivers of enterprise value extend beyond financial productivity — and as disruption intensifies, businesses must adapt to avoid value destruction.
Creating value beyond the deal: industry insights
Market expansion and disruption is driving M&A activity in all sectors, but not all deal activity is maximising value creation.
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Deals Partner, Business Restructuring Services, PwC Malaysia
Tel: +60 (3) 2173 1677
Suren Seelan
Deals Partner, Business Restructuring Services, PwC Malaysia
Tel: +60 (3) 2173 1373