Matt Timmons

Matt Timmons

Partner, Entity, Governance and Compliance, PwC United Kingdom

A partner in our Entity Governance and Compliance team, helping UK and Global businesses navigate regulatory change and manage ongoing compliance obligations.

Matt is our ESG Leader for PwC, UK’s Legal Business Solutions Business.

Matt has responsibility for the relationships and delivery of corporate governance and company secretarial services to a broad client base covering large private business, the FTSE 350 and US Fortune 500.

He specialises in helping organisations reduce cost, risk, and complexity associated with operating diverse corporate structures spanning multiple territories.

Since joining in 2004 Matt has spent time developing the EGC business in London, Birmingham and Manchester. He undertook a secondment to New York advising multinational groups on responding to increased regulation globally and the focus on their future legal entity governance and compliance obligations.

"The pace of regulatory change is reinforcing the important role and relevance of Governance Professionals as the custodians of corporate governance to protect directors and shareholder value."

More recently he has been working with Fortune 500 multinationals on the need to comply with new ESG reporting regulations. He is part of PwC’s Global Competency Center delivering support to clients on the EU’s new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.

In his UK ESG leadership role he has responsibility for leading our market team of ESG Legal specialists in supporting clients navigate significant regulatory changes and enterprise wide transformation programmes. Matt sits on a number of PwC ESG steering committees for PwC’s Global Tax and Legal business and has been part of PwC’s response to a number of UK Government consultations.

Specialism

  • Corporate Governance and Regulatory Advisory
  • Compliance
  • Legal Entity Rationalisation
  • Managed Company Secretarial Services
  • Company Secretarial
  • Global subsidiary Management
  • Technology Optimisation and Implementation

Recent work

  • Advised Fortune 500, large private business (including PE backed) and FTSE 350 on corporate governance and compliance change programmes in response to UK and EU regulatory changes.
  • Implemented UK and Global outsourcing solutions for FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies across all areas of Governance, Transaction Support and Compliance.
  • Implemented Interim Managed Services solutions for FTSE 350 and private business companies to provide immediate support for complex projects e.g. IPO
  • Delivered legal entity rationalization programmes, leading multi-disciplinary teams to reduce costs and complexity in legal entity structures
  • Advised Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 MNCs on ESG regulatory changes; the required governance implications; and developed approaches to ongoing regulatory horizon monitoring to ensure compliance

Area of focus

  • Corporate Governance and Regulatory Advisory
  • Compliance
  • Legal Entity Rationalisation
  • Managed Company Secretarial Services
  • Company Secretarial
  • Global subsidiary Management
  • Technology Optimisation and Implementation

Credentials

  • Lead speaker at several company secretarial and general counsel forums on global subsidiary governance
  • Certificate, Oxford Leading Sustainable Corporations Programme: Said Business School, Oxford University.
  • Associate, ICSA: Chartered Governance Institute
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