Market & Value Advisory issues

PricewaterhouseCoopers' UK Market & Value Advisory practice is a unique team of 200 specialists delivering expert valuation and rigorous financial, economic, regulatory and strategic advice on your business, brand, products, services, customers and markets.

By sharing PwC's extensive industry expertise and in-depth knowledge of both local and global business issues we can bring innovative ideas to the table and deliver dynamic solutions to add value to your organisation, as well as regulatory advice to clarify your business model or resolve disputes.

We work with boards of directors and management to find solutions for questions they confront about their strategic investments:

• What's it worth?
• How can we improve its value?
• Is our pricing right?
• What's the best strategic option?
• Where should we be placing our resources?
• Is this a good deal? Can we defend it?
• Are our regulators on board?
• Is our business costing the earth?
• Can we turn sustainability challenges to business advantage?

Valuation

Whether you require independent expert advice and valuation reports; need to negotiate with the HM Revenue and Customs to cut your tax bill; put an exact price on shares, debt instruments and other intangible assets in your organisation; or need a report that outlines the financial implications of corporate debt, restructuring, investments, mergers and joint-ventures, PwC can help you protect your market position and evaluate your options

Economics

Analysing country risks and the cost of capital, as well as appraising economic profitability and share prices are some key services PricewaterhouseCoopers offers clients across a range of industries. The advantage of ongoing economic appraisals is to develop shareholder value initiatives, value benchmarking and strategic options for investment decisions.

An increased focus on globalisation and maintaining competitive markets worldwide means awareness of competition rules has become an essential ingredient of strategic planning. PricewaterhouseCoopers' team of competition specialists has worked on more than 120 competition inquiries across Europe, and has acted as advisers to national competition authorities in Africa, Asia, the EU and Eastern Europe.

Business planning

Assessing your strategic options makes sense in a rapidly evolving market and the UK Market & Value Advisory team continuously analyses markets to help improve the overall value and performance of businesses. We evaluate major investment decisions to limit uncertainty and advise on the most appropriate and cost-effective financing, as well as the current regulatory environment, because PwC recognises that value is closely linked with how you allocate resources and what your competitive position in the market is.

"PwC provided us with comprehensive, concise advice. They brought to bear unique valuation techniques to assist us. Their report successfully distilled a wealth of information, focusing on the key issues and presenting clear conclusions."

"PwC... supported the investment process of CACP by providing due diligence analysis of potential investments with respect to their market and competition. Such analysis supported the decision-making of the CACP Investment Committee in supplying funds to these companies."