PwC’s private equity team provides solutions to a wide range of issues and technical challenges, from finding the right deals and evaluating the risks, to sourcing the best specialists to make sure the successful fund set up.
The intelligent approach is to have a single, dedicated financial adviser who is aligned with your objectives, connecting you with the right resources at the right time to ensure success at every stage of your fund’s full lifecycle.
PwC cuts through the complexity of private equity and provides lifecycle support – from inception, through acquisition, to post-deal support and exit. Our expertise spans a range of private equity services to support your needs in fund audit, fund operations and management, tax services, due diligence, consulting, ESG, IPO, digital solutions and more. It’s all delivered through one team, one point of contact and one goal – your success.
Click to view our suite of services at each stage of the private equity lifecycle.
Fund set-up and fundraising
Like any new venture, setting up a private equity fund can be daunting. There are questions around market opportunities and the size of the prize, as well as practical concerns about how to design investment structures, and how best to manage tax, financial and other regulatory requirements. That is why our team of experienced assurance, tax and advisory professionals are here to work with you every step of the way – whether you are a new venture, a fund manager or a portfolio company – to help you navigate the do’s and don’ts of setting up a private equity fund.
Investment
In an increasingly competitive environment, how do you cut through the noise to find a strategic fit for your investment needs? And how do you generate enough quality leads to outperform your competitors and maintain deal flow? Both require a clear understanding of the types of investments in which your fund excels in, as well as extensive market knowledge and connections.
As you move to the next stage of the deal process, how do you determine if the target company is a quality company and if the deal is priced correctly? Integrated due diligence, not limited to financial, tax, commercial, legal and HR, is necessary to help you identify growth drivers and risk factors that affect potential synergies and costs. Meanwhile, valuation, which can vary by industry, is also crucial to assess whether the price is right.
At PwC, we can help you maximise your value throughout the deal flow process with a team of strategy consultants and sector deals, tax and audit specialists.
Portfolio management
The first hundred days after closing can determine the success of merger and integration. How do managers turn around a newly acquired business and realise synergies? What should be the priority: cutting costs, optimising operations, motivating people or all the above?
In divestitures and carve-outs, short-term solutions such as a transactional services agreement may be needed to keep operations going until a longer-term solution is in place. Meanwhile, the reality is that a range of performance improvement measures are needed simultaneously, requiring both attention to detail and expertise in areas such as financial reporting, tax regulation, IT and operations, human resources and internal controls.
Exit
A successful exit, whether through an initial public offering, strategic acquisition, secondary sale or management buy-back, requires forward thinking and planning to ensure that the right pieces are in the right place at the right time to maximise both fundraising potential and investor return. Our team of specialists can work with you to assess your options at every step of the way, sharing our global insights on fundraising, origination, capital market developments and listing requirements in China and international stock exchanges.
Digital Solution for Alternative Investment (DSAI)
DSAI aims to establish an end-to-end comprehensive investment management platform, with the core functional modules covering the key steps of ‘fundraising, investment, management, and exit’, and through the Software with a Service (SWAS) model and PwC Solution Store setups, various PwC professional services and systematic solutions are seamlessly integrated to provide a one-stop, modularised and digitalised solution for investment institutions.
Intelligent Bank Analysis System (iBAS)
As one of DSAI’s application plug-ins, iBAS combines multiple data sources such as bank statements, journal entries, invoices and business registry information to carry out automatic analysis and verification of the reliability and consistency of bank statement records, which helps investment institutions to efficiently conduct pre-investment cashflow due diligence and can also support post-investment capital supervision activities.
Asia Pacific Deals Leader, Global Corporate Finance Leader, Asia Pacific Private Equity and Sovereign Investment Fund Leader, PwC Hong Kong
Tel: +[852] 2289 2400
