Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) to serve your business priorities
M&A is one of the more direct ways to increase the value of your business. To help you maximise the creation value of your transactions we keep your business priorities at heart. M&A can be a great tool to grow, optimise or diversify your business.
We partner with clients to maximise the success of their M&A activity by tailoring our services to fit their strategy.
We bring our client transactions and integration expertise, deep industry knowledge, a global network, and a focus on building M&A capabilities. We work on sell-side and buy-side transactions to help you reach your goals.
Investing to grow
Divesting to optimise
Pivot and diversify
Sell-side
Strategic analysis and preparation for sale
Entrepreneurs often underestimate the importance of the preparation phase of a company's sale process. Good preparation can help clarify the right objective and set in motion an action plan that will contribute to bringing you the best value.
We help our clients:
- Assess and develop sale rationale, exploring the founders/shareholders’ objectives as well as the potential buyer’s rationale;
- We give our clients a view of the market and active buyers to target the best strategic fits;
- Transaction execution.
Buy-side
Strategic analysis to identify the best opportunities
Deals that deliver value don’t happen by chance. Successful acquirers make M&A deals that enhance or leverage their capabilities. We help our clients develop a clear view to find the best opportunities available in the market.
We help our clients:
- Perform Strategic analysis: Assess which sectors and industries offer the best opportunities to reach strategic goals;
- Obtain a clear view of the market;
- Transaction execution.
The 5 stages of a deal
Acquisition and target selection
- Acquisition decision
- Strategic goals definition
- Target selection
Contact and negotiation
- Initial contact
- Initial valuation
- Negotiation
Due diligence
- Financial DD
- Tax and legal DD
- Commercial DD
Pre-close
- Contract drafting and negotiations
- Finalisation of commercial terms
- Post-merger integration plan (PMI)
Post- acquisition
- Implementation of PMI
Contact us
Grégoire Huret
Advisory Partner, Corporate Finance Leader, PwC Luxembourg
Tel: +352 49 48 48 2132
Matt Moran
Advisory Partner, Insurance, Alliances Leader, PwC Luxembourg
Tel: +352 49 48 48 2071
