At PwC Africa, we serve clients as one unified firm, integrating expertise across the continent and all lines of service to address interconnected challenges and opportunities. In today’s rapidly evolving environment, clients require holistic, sector-specific strategies that draw on the full breadth of our capabilities and knowledge.
Our approach is centred on collaboration across Assurance, Tax and Legal Services, and Advisory, anchored in market-aligned sectors. By organising around client industries rather than technical silos, we bring together specialists from across Africa and globally to co-create tailored, multidisciplinary solutions.
Here are some examples of our approach:
Pillar Two: A coordinated response
The introduction of Pillar Two posed an exciting opportunity for PwC Africa – creating value for clients beyond compliance. To best support our clients from a multi-dimensional perspective, approaching Pillar Two required a coordinated response across Tax, Assurance and Corporate Reporting as well as drawing on the PwC Global Network.
A key focus was building capability within PwC through targeted training, technical discussions and ongoing support. Through our multi-disciplinary team discussions and training, we were able to gauge how Pillar Two impacts clients practically, specifically multinational groups with complex internal structures. By working collaboratively across these teams, PwC developed a consistent approach to the tax, accounting and disclosure implications, including IAS 12 requirements and the assessment of Pillar Two exposures for multinational groups.
Creating value beyond compliance meant our approach required proactive action. Through engaging PwC audit teams and our clients early, we can assess applicability, consider disclosure requirements and support planning ahead of formal compliance obligations. Drawing on our Africa and Global footprint means that we can provide clients with a seamless experience, regardless of territory.
Collaboration in action: Connecting our expertise across our network
A client required support in establishing a new research and development entity in a foreign market. The engagement involved a broad range of interconnected considerations, including corporate structuring, tax, transfer pricing, treasury, technology implementation, governance, legal and regulatory compliance, and people-related matters.
Addressing these requirements required expertise from across Lines of Service and our wider network. Bringing together specialists with deep technical knowledge and teams familiar with the client's business enabled us to provide a coordinated response to a complex cross-border challenge.
A key focus was ensuring that important decisions were considered holistically rather than in isolation. By working collaboratively across disciplines, the team was able to assess how decisions relating to intellectual property, tax, treasury, technology, governance and regulatory requirements influenced one another, allowing us to provide integrated advice rather than separate workstream responses.
Early involvement from tax specialists helped ensure that intellectual property structuring and investment holding considerations informed the proposed structure from the outset and were aligned with the broader operating model. This enabled key business, operational and governance decisions to be considered in parallel and supported a more coordinated approach.
Drawing on expertise from across our network also enabled the team to combine local market insight with a deep understanding of the client's broader strategic objectives. Bringing these perspectives together helped deliver a seamless cross-border experience and ensured the engagement remained aligned to the client's long-term goals.
By working as one team, we were able to provide an integrated, multidisciplinary solution to support the establishment of the new entity. Bringing together diverse capabilities created greater value for the client than any individual workstream could have delivered alone.