M&A Path

A cloud-based digital tool designed to add value and accelerate delivery during your deal lifecycle

M&A Path seamlessly aligns strategy to execution during every step of your deal. Human-led and tech-powered, our solution combines PwC’s expertise with a powerful digital platform.

M&A Path helps accelerate your deal journey, bringing greater ease, confidence and peace of mind.

Our unique, end-to-end solution is custom-built for the M&A transaction cycle allowing you to design, prioritise and track all aspects.

From boardroom to the battleground – real-time navigation, data-backed insights and customisable views keep you in control and focused on impact.

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Reimagine the way you do transactions with M&A Path

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M&A Path: A GPS for your transaction
 

Put strategy in the driver's seat

Our hypothesis-based approach converts your strategy into a fully aligned implementation path.

Gain ground

Fast-track your program starting with preloaded deal features and fuel collaboration in real-time with a single playbook.

Stay on the right track

With multilayered connectivity, right-sized information and continuous reporting, you remain on time and on track towards critical milestones and full value realisation.

How our approach comes to life in our tech-powered solution: Four key modules

Our deal fundamentals module empowers you to craft a robust vision, strategy and value creation story to give you confidence you are entering into the right deal. To enable this, our platform helps you to:
  • Set up your deal rationale, strategy, goals and principles
  • Design the Master Hypotheses
  • Create an ingoing aggregate and annualised view of deal value levers
  • Link to PwC comparative metrics - operational and deal-related
  • Capture key risks (market, program, people, Business As Usual "BAU")
  • Set up the program approach and governance structure
  • Understand the key people, culture, change and communications levers and effort required

Our operating model design supports Day 1 readiness with a centralised and streamlined set-up of the overall operating and organisation models - from Current State to Day 1, Interim and End State, via:
  • Setting the overall operational and organisational model design context and strategy
  • Capturing strategic Operating Model design objectives and principles
  • Creating and designing multiple versions of operating models, e.g. Current, Day 1, Interim and End State in a centralised and streamlined manner
  • Capturing the strategic assessment (people, process, data and reporting, assets, systems, and contracts) and functional strategy for each operating model element

Our program management office ensures the deal intent is delivered via a customised real-time project management module (specifically designed for M&A)

A fully connected "web" of the core information required to deliver the program against your original value hypothesis, including:

  • Ability to create, edit and track program delivery against your value case, hypotheses, initiatives, tasks
  • Visualise the workplan in real-time for everyone to stay informed and keep track of the integration, "zooming in and out" from task to program level
  • View the program against multiple critical paths simultaneously e.g. Conditions Precedent, Day 1, Day 100, TSA exit date etc.
  • Manage risks, issues, actions and decisions at all levels within centralised RAID logs. These can be tagged to relevant owners, workstreams and initiatives and summarised in an automated output dashboard
  • Value tracking through the bottom-up build of the value case, flowing through to program, workstream and sub-workstream dashboards

Our dashboard helps you be in the know with access to real-time analytics and financials throughout the deal lifecycle, including:
  • Real-time project dashboard at the workstream level, covering:
    • Current/prior status updates and live commentary
    • Milestone completion tracking
    • RAID snapshot, with ability to "zoom in" to view and edit specific items
  • Real-time financial dashboards, covering:
    • Cumulative views of value across recurring items (Revenue, Cost, FTE) and one-off costs (OpEx, CapEx)
    • Program, workstream and sub-worksteam level reporting
    • Monthly, quarterly and annual financial tracking
    • Comparison of target, forecast and actual value

 

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James Scanlan

James Scanlan

Partner, Advisory, Deals Strategy & Operations, PwC Australia

Alex Cameron

Alex Cameron

Director, Advisory, Deals Strategy & Operations, PwC Australia

Michael Botros

Michael Botros

Director, Advisory, Deals Strategy & Operations, PwC Australia