The Strategy practice helps corporate and private equity investors develop or appraise strategic business plans in both deal and non-deal related situations through the rigorous analysis of the business’s market environment, competitive landscape and internal capabilities.

Corporate Strategy

Commercial Due Diligence

We offer clients a clear competitive differentiation in the following areas:

• Applying rigorous analysis and industry insight to get to the heart of a problem or identify an opportunity in a short timeframe
• Expressing opinions that are clear, commercially grounded and can be implemented
• A multi-disciplinary approach – through links into the expansive PwC network and specifically working alongside our colleagues in the finance, tax, operations and sustainability practices we can understand a business from all angles to offer holistic insight and advice
• Our Commercial due diligence heritage means that we have developed a deep understanding of the deal environment and can provide a transactional as well as strategic perspective to your business

Our expertise and approach

The Strategy practice is structured into dedicated industry teams drawing on an extensive bank of direct experience, as well as plugging directly into the firms global industry networks for more specific knowledge.

• we have over 200 dedicated professional staff in London and a further 200 in our international network
• 17 offices around Europe, Asia and the US
• we have conducted over 600 commercial due diligence and 150 consulting assignments worldwide
• we have been offering deals advice for over 20 years, ranging from mid-market deals to major global transactions
• in 2008, we undertook approximately 70 buy-side and sell-side due diligence assignments from the UK office alone

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