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PwC Legal
In today’s fast-moving world, legal challenges are complex. Whether navigating transformation, tackling regulation, structuring a deal or refining your privacy strategy—a holistic approach is needed to connect the dots.
Our PwC Legal team brings legal expertise, advanced tech and capability—at scale—to help you manage challenging business issues with agility.
We work with you to understand your commercial objectives, and apply the diversity of thought, skills and experience that comes with our integrated service offering.
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Harness the power of PwC’s global reach, local presence and industry expertise to protect and grow your business.
The breadth of our business and market insight differentiates us from traditional law firms. We bring together lawyers, consultants, commercial advisers and accountants to manage your risk and resolve your business needs.
Together, we can help you tackle your biggest challenges and plan for the future.
Our practice areas
- Corporate and commercial
- Tax advisory
- Employment law and workplace safety
- Real estate
- Privacy
Corporate and commercial
Key contacts: Tom Logan, Joelle Grace and Elena Kim
We bring a deep understanding of today’s legal issues, business opportunities and risks to deliver commercially focused strategic legal advice.
We work with local and multinational companies, privately-owned businesses, inbound investors, financial institutions, not-for-profit organisations and high net-worth individuals. Some of our work includes:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Inbound investments and private equity
- Overseas Investment Office approvals
- Joint venture arrangements
- Capital raising
- Corporate restructures (domestic and international)
- Financial services and investment funds
- Employee share schemes
- Commercial contracting
- Board advisory, entity governance and compliance
- General corporate and commercial advice
- Company secretarial services
- Outsourced legal counsel services
Tax advisory
Key contacts: Helen Johnson, Emma Richards and Harry Cundy
We bring effective tax solutions that are strategic, commercially focused and integrated with your business.
We work with local and multinational companies, privately-owned businesses, not-for-profit organisations, public authorities, charities and high net-worth individuals. Some of our work includes:
- Tax disputes
- Tax advisory services
- Tax rulings
- Tax aspects of business contracts
- Tax aspects of M&A and other corporate transactions
Employment law and workplace safety
Key contacts: Chris Baldock and Anmol Shankar
We provide legal advice across the full spectrum of advisory and contentious employment law and workplace safety issues.
We work with local and multinational companies, privately-owned businesses, not-for-profit organisations, high net-worth individuals and public authorities across a broad range of unionised and non-unionised industries. Our services cover the full spectrum of workplace legal issues, including:
- Restructuring and change management
- Litigation, disputes, regulatory investigations and prosecutions
- Transactional support, including due diligence and advice on mergers and acquisitions
- Industrial relations support, including collective bargaining
- Holidays Act 2003 and other payroll compliance issues
- Health and safety, including front end advisory and prosecution support
- Independent workplace investigations and culture reviews
- Employment agreement and policy drafting
- Human rights issues
- General statutory compliance and day-to-day employment relations support
Real estate
Key contacts: Jonathan Simons
We guide you through the process of negotiating and preparing complex agreements that deliver against commercial objectives for property and real estate projects.
Our clients include investors, landlords, tenants, fund managers and institutions, developers, community housing providers, charities and central and local government, with services covering a range of asset classes (including commercial, industrial, retail and residential). Some of our work includes:
- Structuring and investment
- Acquisitions and disposals
- Leasing
- Real estate due diligence
- Development agreements and arrangements
- Construction contracts
- Subdivision
- Funding and security reviews
Privacy
Key contact: Polly Ralph
We deliver strategic and commercially-minded privacy solutions, to help you manage risk effectively, build privacy trust and unlock data opportunities.
Working with businesses of all sizes, our work includes:
- Privacy breach readiness, response and remediation
Data sharing and vendor contracts
Review of new technologies and systems
Off-shoring of personal information
- Drafting privacy policies, processes and guidelines
Privacy maturity assessments
Privacy impact assessments
Privacy strategy and operating model design
Our capabilities
We help you think in new ways to create value and build trust, empowering you to do more—for your stakeholders, your people, your customers and society.
Industries and sectors
We work alongside you—with powerful tech and expertise—to turn your next move into your next advantage. Smart growth starts with deep insight.
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