Services

Assurance & regulatory reporting

Our in-depth understanding of regulation and legislation enables us to help companies with complex reporting requirements, such as Sarbanes Oxley and IFRS. We are leaders in the development of non-financial reporting, such as the Operating and Financial Review (OFR), to help our clients respond to the drive for better corporate governance.

Our sustainable business solutions team helps clients improve their business performance and long-term shareholder value with a focus on ethical standards.

Business recovery services

Provides advisory and insolvency services to lenders, creditors, companies and individuals in troubled financial situations. Our services include turnaround implementation, financial, operational and strategic advice, optimised exit services, accelerated mergers and acquisitions, solvent reconstructions, insurance company run-off, receivables management, receiverships, administrations and liquidations.

Corporate finance

Provides a full range of industry-focused financial advisory services to corporates, management teams, private equity houses and public sector institutions. We offer advice throughout the deal spectrum; from strategy, valuation and execution through to exit planning; and on a range of transaction types including M&A, private equity, IPOs, project finance and PPP.

Forensic services

Helps organisations tackle the major financial and reputational risks associated with economic crime. Our forensic experts identify financial irregularities, recover stolen assets and introduce controls to mitigate the future risk of fraud. The team also has a long-established litigation support practice, helping businesses resolve complex financial disputes arising from corporate transactions, insurance claims, intellectual property and licensing contracts, and construction projects.

Public Private Advisory

It's our job to understand, advise on and solve the complexities involved in transactions, financing and policy at the interface between the public and private sectors in Scotland; whether it's raising funding for infrastructure projects or procuring private sector partners for our public sector clients. We work with governments, shaping their policy, developing frameworks and helping them to implement PPPs, industry by industry. We reconcile investors' need for profit with the requirements of Government for political and financial transparency. As an independent adviser, we engineer a truly competitive bidding process. And when advising private sector bidders, we help them to develop structures that allow them to access local and international funds.

Human resource services

Advises companies on all aspects of people management, helping them create value for their businesses through people. Key issues are executive reward schemes, negotiating Inland Revenue agreements, dispensations and annual PAYE settlement agreements; and dealing with pension scheme deficits.

Performance improvement consulting

Helps companies react with agility to opportunities and threats by delivering performance improvements that allow them to gain and protect competitive advantage and government and public sector bodies to improve performance and efficiency and deliver successful and enduring benefits from major change programmes.

Tax

As one of the UK's leading tax planning practices, and with approximately 2,800 tax experts around the country, we are renowned for the depth and quality of our expertise. Our approach embraces many aspects of tax problem solving from ideas to implementation, blending the skills of financial and tax specialists with economists and our other in-house experts as necessary; for example we provide legal services through our associate law firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal.

Develops and applies best practices combining all aspects of tax planning and problem solving from ideas to implementation, blending the skills of financial and tax specialists with economists, lawyers and other in-house experts as necessary.