KPMG has a long-standing commitment to the global private equity community. In offices across the global KPMG network, including all of the major financial centers of the world, dedicated professionals experienced in private equity focus on the needs of the private equity community, its investors, and its portfolio companies. KPMG's Private Equity Group includes practitioners from KPMG's Corporate Finance, Transaction Services, Corporate Recovery, ForensicSM, Corporate Intelligence, Tax, Audit, and Risk Advisory Services practices.
Private Equity Skills
To be successful in this sector Private Equity partners must have a client-centric and global attitude with the ability and network to build teams and deliver the firm both regionally and globally, and able to deliver and coordinate resources across the globe.
The complexity of the industry and the deals that drive private equity force us to match up against a very highly skilled, intelligent and knowledgeable buyer. They are entrepreneurial and exceedingly demanding; they expect their advisors to deliver at speed, which often requires working long and unsociable hours.
An understanding of private equity is essential to serving this sector, as well as a general understanding, experience in, and the knowledge of the following technical skills: funds audit & structures, tax restructuring, transaction services, advisory (cost cutting, business integration, and operational improvements), IPO accounting, and sale side due diligence.
KPMG's Industry Focus
KPMG's Private Equity Group consists of experienced private equity professionals from across the network of KPMG member firms who focus on the needs of the private equity community, its investors, and its portfolio companies. KPMG's Private Equity Group was established to support the links between the private equity fund complex, its managers, transactions and structures, the portfolio companies, and the realization of value. We have a global approach to serving private equity by aggregating all services (e.g., audit and tax services, due diligence assistance, tax structuring, post-investment advisory services) under the direction of a global lead partner. By offering a coordinated approach to the business, KPMG member firms can help large leveraged buy-out firms, middle market private equity firms, or venture capital firms with their strategic, deal, and portfolio management issues.
Fund-Raising
In fund raising there is a demand by investors for tax-efficient returns and transparent presentation of investment performance. KPMG member firms can offer independent reviews and verification as well as help in developing the tax structuring advice that is most efficient and functional for the fund group.
Investments and Deals
Clarity of strategic industry focus and targeted deal size can be key for the private equity fund complex to build relationships in the investment community and drive deal flow. Our member firms' private equity professionals can help by assessing deal potential to help create value, quantifying risks as well as reporting historical information.
Portfolio Management
Private equity fund groups are becoming more than purely financial buyers, with an emphasis on value enhancement and performance improvement that requires effective portfolio management. Our firms' strengths lie in helping build and implement project plans encompassing the strategic, operational, or financial input required to help improve performance.
Realizing Value
In the current market climate, value realization can mean either an exit or an alternative such as refinancing. KPMG member firms can assist private equity groups by advising on tax issues, building credible plans to support a refinancing case made to lenders, and helping determine whether a company has been groomed effectively for a disposal.
Fund and Portfolio Services
An independent audit is one of the foundations for establishing trust with investors. KPMG is dedicated to providing the resources and technological tools necessary to support KPMG engagement teams as they deliver audit services to the fund complex and its portfolio companies. KPMG's tax services are designed to reflect the unique needs and objectives of each client, whether they are dealing with the tax aspects of a cross-border acquisition or developing and helping to implement a global transfer pricing strategy. In practical terms, that means KPMG firms work with their clients to assist them in achieving effective tax compliance and managing tax risks, while helping to control costs.
Global Integration
In today's global investment environment, it is more important than ever to have an integrated team of service providers. KPMG's Private Equity Group consists of professionals from across the network of KPMG member firms that are all coordinated by a global lead partner. Whether it is assembling a team to perform due diligence or analyzing a potential service to be performed for a portfolio company, the global lead partner is dedicated to bringing the client the highest caliber of professionals with the local knowledge, technical skills, and industry experience it needs.
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