Simplification
As Australia's largest dedicated Simplification team, we have the experience and resources to work with you on your unique business goals. We back up our client service with extensive experience in simplifying and exiting corporate structures and work using our own established and trusted methodologies.
Our global reach reduces complexity and increases efficiency. We work with our colleagues around the world to ensure that a global simplification or exit can commence simultaneously within many jurisdictions. If the law within these jurisdictions does not allow the formal liquidation of an entity, we can provide various alternatives to meet your strategic aims.
Does your business have an overly complex structure?
A complex corporate structure can get in the way of business success by consuming management time and capital, adding costs and increasing compliance risks. If your corporate structure is out of step with the day-to-day functioning of your business, you may also be less agile and potentially missing opportunities for growth.
Our Structure Simplification team can help you free up your time, re-direct your capital, reduce costs and mitigate risks, streamlining your operations and developing your ideal corporate structure that is 'fit for purpose' for your needs.
We do this through helping you:
- make resource and cash savings through having fewer statutory, accounting, finance and compliance obligations
- minimise tax and legal costs,
- increase your agility, particularly for acquisitions or divestments
- provide greater transparency and accountability and reduce risk for your board, investors, regulators, banks, analysts and rating agencies
- release under-productive capital or realise more efficient capital management
The cost to simplify is generally recovered in one year or less - a good return on investment proposition against almost every benchmark. Add in the scope for PwC to operate on innovative fee structures and we can make the case for that investment quite compelling.
Are you looking to exit a business or division?
There are many reasons why a company might be looking to perform a managed exit including a strategic refocus or location change, an industry downturn or maybe to stem losses or repatriate and redirect underproductive capital resources. If you face any of these or similar challenges and you're looking to divest a business in difficult or unusual circumstances, we can help.
We do this through:
- providing a value assessment of the various exit options including divestment, closure, downsizing and hybrid reorganisation alternatives
- offering strategic advice designed to maximise the efficiency of the program
- formulating a detailed project plan
- managing the formal implementation of the plan whether it be to a disposal, shutdown of operations or downsizing
- resolving post-closure 'tail' issues when internal resources are no longer available or economic to retain
- Liquidating the remaining group via our structure simplification services
If you are looking for a true collaborator in simplifying or exiting your business, please contact us for further information on how we can help.
