Corporate Finance

Your PwC Corporate Finance team provides you with tailored solutions for all eventualities during the lifecycle of your business. We support the goals of many SMEs and corporates. This means you can benefit from the wide-ranging experiences we have, as well as our in-depth knowledge of the regional marketplace. Local clients include owner managed businesses, private equity backed firms and listed companies.

You can access our wider, national sector expertise and benefit from insights into current industry issues that may affect your deal activity. You will also have access to our extensive global relationship network.

We have dedicated specialists in valuations, sale & purchase agreements and M&A tax, as well as an extensive due diligence team making up the wider deal team of 40 members. Our culture is significantly influenced by the heritage of the firm and, as such, we focus on building long-term client relationships and doing what is best for our client. We are independent of the source of finance and so we differentiate ourselves through intellectual not financial capital. These factors, together with our deep sector knowledge and international network, combine to make great deals better.

Recent deal activity

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Our regional M&A focus

Our M&A focus in the Wales and West region include:

  • Entrepreneurial private companies
  • Mid-market with enterprise values £3m - £30m
  • Utilising the depth of our sector expertise
  • Leveraging the reach of our international networks
  • Providing an integrated approach to deal making, bringing in experts in Tax, valuations and SPA advice
Corporate Finance Lead Advisory Services

When organic growth does not satisfy the needs of your stakeholders, or you would like to dispose of non-core assets, PwC's corporate finance team can help. Our corporate finance experts can help you access new markets, assets, technologies, personnel, intellectual property and sources of finance. We can also help you to restructure the asset base of your business by disposing of underperforming assets or non-core parts of the business.

We provide a full range of M&A and financial advisory services across all industry sectors, from acquisitions through to raising finance. Wherever you are in the world, we are able to deploy local teams at short notice - teams that combine our deep industry expertise with local knowledge to focus on your deal. For every deal we are able to draw on the full range of PwC services - including due diligence, tax and legal advice.

In 2011, PricewaterhouseCoopers provided financial advice on 306 deals globally, valued at more than $24 billion, of which over 49% were cross border.

Potential issues

  • You want rapid access to new markets, assets, technologies, personnel, intellectual property and sources of finance
  • You want to restructure the asset base of businesses by disposing of underperforming assets / parts of the business
  • You want to realise the value of your business
  • You want to raise money for expansion
  • You want help with setting direction and business planning, which may result in an M&A transaction.

How we can support you

  • Expert advice throughout the transaction
  • Proven ability to help you to find the right buyer for your business, or help you to identify the right acquisition target to fit with your strategic ambition
  • Benefit of access to specialists in the rules and regulations governing publicly listed companies
  • National and international network of practitioners with local knowledge.

PwC's M&A advisory services include

Advice on all aspects of acquisitions, disposals, private equity transactions and finance raising, including:

  • Deal execution
  • Deal origination
  • Valuation of assets
  • Preparing of business plans and financial modelling of projections
  • Capital raising, debt raising and private equity financing
  • Debt restructuring
  • Co-ordinate other advisers (eg lawyers, due diligence providers etc)
  • Exit strategy reviews
  • Strategic advice and assistance with deal planning
  • Public to private transactions
  • Advice on hostile offers and bid defence.
Meet our team

Gary Partridge

Gary heads up the Corporate Finance team for the Wales & West Region. He has almost 20 years experience in the transactional marketplace spanning PwC in the UK and Europe, a global M&A role within British Telecom and a career in Venture Capital. He specialises today in advising entrepreneurs and owner managed businesses across all sectors to maximise the value of their businesses, whether that be through bolt-on acquisitions, raising new finance or the crystallisation of all that hard work and effort by means of the all important exit.

Contact: Email Gary | Telephone: 0117 928 1110

Heather Sowry

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Contact: Email Heather | Telephone: 0117 928 1122

Marc Davies

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Contact: Email Marc | Telephone: 0292 0802 093

Colin Davis

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Contact: Email Colin | Telephone: 0117 928 1254

Leslie Nichols

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Contact: Email Leslie | Telephone: 020 7212 2140

Richard Day

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Contact: Email Richard | Telephone: 0117 923 4296

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