PwC Private and Family Business Services

Wherever you are in your business journey, it's important to think of the future.

Family businesses like yours play a crucial role in economies worldwide. Your value systems, agile decision-making capabilities and long-term vision give you a competitive advantage and shape your legacy. However, all of this can quickly be threatened by a world in constant flux. That’s where PwC comes in. As your trusted business advisor, we can help your business with family governance, succession planning, family business strategy, private wealth management, family office and philanthropy. Our NextGen Clubs and annual Family Business Conference are built around you and your needs as you grow your family legacy. Our team is dedicated to your success. 

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have remained some of the top identified global risks presented by the World Economic Forum for several years. The level of interest in value added (or taken away) and social impact will continue to increase, resulting in an increasing number of recommendations, standards, and requirements for companies.

Private companies are not subject to as many disclosure and regulatory requirements relating to ESG factors. This provides an opportunity to focus on creating sustainable value for your stakeholders, and intentionally crafting your actions and impact on society and the environment.

Having a robust and responsive sustainability policy provides companies with a competitive advantage. Our dedicated team works with you to develop measures to mitigate the current and predicted future impacts on your business to ensure long-term sustainability.

Our dedicated tax specialists are well equipped to act as your trusted business advisors. This team is part of a strong South African tax practice, recognised as one of the country’s leading tax advisors. In addition to our unrivalled local resources and industry knowledge, we draw on the skills and experience of a network of more than 18,000 tax and legal professionals globally. Our tax specialists focus on an array of topics such as wealth taxes, trusts, value-added tax, capital gains tax, transfer pricing and succession planning.

As companies pivot more toward digital business models, exponentially more data is generated and shared among organisations, partners and customers. This digital information has become the lifeblood of the interconnected business ecosystem and is increasingly valuable to organisations and to skilled threat actors. Increasing digitisation also means companies are exposed to new digital vulnerabilities, making an effective approach to cybersecurity and privacy more important than ever. We help our clients transform from value protectors to value creators by building trust, promoting resilience and enabling the business. We’re here to help you transform your organisation and drive growth, while staying resilient and preparing for the unexpected.

Information Technology (IT) is changing many aspects of business. It is a critical mechanism to lower costs, increase effectiveness and efficiency, as well as providing value-add and interacting with customers and suppliers. It is however very important that the IT strategy is aligned with the business strategy to ensure that IT support becomes an integral part of an organisation’s growth. Key to developing an effective IT strategy is recognising that IT is an enabler for the implementation of business requirements. Business requirements should therefore always be the driver behind any IT investment — and the resulting business benefits should be clearly measurable. We have developed a global IT strategy development methodology which has been tried and tested on several projects locally and globally.