Deals Services

Invest and grow your business with PwC

Investing in the Australian market offers many growth opportunities for Chinese enterprise. Combining our deep understanding of the Chinese culture and language capabilities, we help Chinese businesses from many industries to make successful, sustainable investments. Our Deals team in our China Practice works closely with PwC's Asia network, and our people's experience of working both in China and Australia means we're ideally placed to help you realise quantifiable benefits and sustainable solutions for your business.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

When you invest into Australia, there are certain issues you need to consider. These include:

• Target identification
• Capital raisings
• Analysis of strategic options.

There are many financial and strategic offerings available to you. Our M&A team will work with you to find the right one, providing strategic advisory services and integrated solutions in relation to divestments, acquisitions and capital raising initiatives. We'll support you from the start of a transaction with services including identifying suitable targets which fit culturally and strategically, performing valuations, talking to the vendor/purchaser, managing negotiations, and documentation, and raising finance.

Transaction services (TS)

Our TS team has a history of success in helping clients invest and grow in a foreign market with different economic, political and cultural environments. Building financial and commercial confidence for our Chinese clients so they get the deal value they are looking for is at the heart of our TS business.

• Financial Due Diligence
  We enhance the buyer's understanding of the target business with our commercial and financial industry-specific perspectives.
  
  
• Bid Support
  We'll review a bidder's business and provide you with an analysis of the optimum presentation of financial opportunities.
  
  
• Capital Markets
  Supporting forecast financial positions put forward to raise public capital.
  
  
• Delivering Deal Value
  We'll help you realise the greatest value from a deal through commercial and operational due diligence, deal negotiation and completion. After the deal is done, our post-merger integration teams can help with cultural and process change management, making sure your new acquisition starts working for you straight away.
  
  
• M&A Tax Services
  Our tax specialists help reduce actual transaction tax costs and long-term sustainable tax rate by managing acquisition/merger risk, structuring acquisitions to optimise net cash flows, carrying out pre-acquisition due diligence and ensuring tax-efficient deal structuring.

Debt and Capital Advisory (DCA)

A core group of highly experienced bankers is at the heart of our DCA team. They help clients grow by providing clear, practical and independent advice and assistance on all aspects of capital and funding management, from capital management strategy development to design and implementation of capital and funding procurement solutions.

Infrastructure Advisory

Our Infrastructure Advisory team works with both the public and private sectors in delivering large-scale, complex infrastructure projects which benefit both the community and private sector needs. We develop flexible, innovative solutions that provide the foundation for a project's successful delivery.

Corporate Value Advisory (CVA)

Our CVA team helps you to understand and model the value implications of growth and restructuring decisions, investment choices and commercial negotiations.

Corporate Advisory and Restructuring (CAR)

In the post-downturn environment, markets continue to be unpredictable and sometimes growth can be achieved best by reducing the burden of underperforming businesses and releasing capital or other resources to invest in more promising opportunities. Sometimes it is about managing the downside better to deliver the upside. We are passionate about creating opportunities for success in the face of adversity and then implementing them.