Transaction Services
Guiding you through complex transactions

The PwC Transaction Services team works with a range of clients across various industries, helping them to achieve their strategic goals and to make informed M&A decisions.
We guide our clients through various transactions which may result in either an acquisition, disposal or stock exchange listing.
We are the largest dedicated due diligence team in New Zealand and have specialists located in Auckland and Wellington servicing the country.
The team works in combination with other PwC specialists including:
- Tax M&A team;
- IT, Operational, HR due diligence specialists;
- Financial due diligence and other M&A specialists in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, and around the world; and
- Industry experts drawn from the New Zealand firm and/or overseas PwC firms.
Through our collective experience, we are involved in more deals than any other organisation in New Zealand. The team’s focus is on meeting the challenges that arise in a fluid business environment and solving the key complex issues that surround deals.
Services
Our team of specialists offers a fully-integrated due diligence approach, and with the resources of more than 6,000 people globally, we have the ability to provide companies with complete international coverage.
We are uniquely positioned to focus on the longer-term return from each deal because our services span the entire deal spectrum, from acquisition strategy and evaluation, to post-acquisition integration.
Combining these resources with our industry sector knowledge means we can offer you a world class service.
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Our key services
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- Buy-side due diligence
Buy-side due diligence
- Experience across a wide range of industries
- Corporate and private equity clients
- Matching our due diligence procedures to your specific needs
- Providing a clear financial interpretation of the business to assist the investment evaluation.
- Vendor due diligence
Vendor due diligence
- Experience across a wide range of industries
- Designed to help a company disposing of a business identify and proactively manage issues impacting value and negotiation opportunities. This may be structured as:
- vendor due diligence; or
- vendor assistance.
- Capital markets
Capital markets
- Statutory auditor reports for prospectuses
- Due diligence investigations for Due Diligence Committees on historical and forecast information
- Advice on the financial information and disclosure requirements in prospectuses.
- Other engagements
Other engagements
- Our team has extensive expertise in a range on non-deal related due diligence and financial investigation assignments.
Completed transactions:
- Tegel’s $605m vendor due diligence
- Yellow Pages Group restructuring
- Heartland Bank merger
- NHC’s AU$450m vendor due diligence
- Ecoya’s $10m IPO
- DNZ Property Fund’s $130m capital raising
- Kathmandu’s $400m trans-Tasman IPO.