PwC LLP offers 'a fantastic level of detailed knowledge' to clients on their international business reorganisations which are often high-profile multi-jurisdictional projects. The corporate and commercial, international business reorganisations team is jointly headed by Georgie Blyth and Cynthia Chan. Kevin King handles restructuring and transactional engagements for financial services clients, in particular in the banking and investment management sectors. Latika Sharma 's work includes handling the restructuring of international IP portfolios while Laura Freestone advises on global corporate reorganisation projects for international groups. Harry Wilkins specialises in deal-related structuring projects, in particular pre-deal carve-outs and post-deal integrations. Rebecca Boyers is frequently instructed by US and Asian clients, such as Japanese multinational corporates while Stephanie Xintara supports the team in these matters.
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Testimonials
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‘Properly understand the complexities of dealing with re-organisations, contracting within MNE groups and alignment with other specialist teams such as tax, where traditional laws firms can struggle.’
‘Special call out for Latika Sharma who has been my go to person for many years when dealing with inter-company contracting. She has deep experience in this area including common business models, which means that I don't need to invest significantly explaining the objectives and what I am trying to achieve. She just gets it.’
‘Laura Freestone, Monika Gorska and Cynthia Chan are extremely knowledgeable and thorough lawyers, helping to highlight any potential issues that are not necessarily part of their original scope of advice. Able to deliver business-friendly advice on complex matters. Very capable and reliable in any project in which they are involved.’
‘Georgie Blythe - superb support, responsive and knowledgeable lawyer an absolute pleasure to work with. Amber Attard Kingswell - Associate - magnificent support and leadership in complex cross-border reorganizations.’
‘I work with Georgie Blyth. Georgie is calm, very proficient and always finds ways to support our projects, no matter how complex or how "bumpy" the project road is.’
‘We only see a small aspect of what the PwC International Business Reorganisations team do when we liaise with them as external counsel on their various projects. However, the level of expertise and organisation they bring to these extremely complex and wide-ranging projects is exceptional. They have a fantastic level of detailed knowledge on each of the different elements and are able to engage knowledgeable with us on our particular areas even though they will have to have that same level of knowledge across all areas. It's incredibly impressive.’
‘Georgie Blyth is the standout individual in the team from my perspective. He is incredibly down to earth (belying his intellect!) and whilst obviously leading the team, he is able to effectively get in the weeds of problems where needed. He's my go to man on any multi-jurisdictional query.’
‘PWC's key strength is its ability to handle complex cross-border corporate reorganizations, taking leadership to ensure coordination across both their practices and their client's organization.’
Key clients
- Amazon UK Services Limited
- Aptiv Plc
- Chart Industries Inc.
- ESAB Corporation
- Honeywell International Inc.
- Jacobs Solutions Inc.
- Light & Wonder, Inc.
- Livent Corporation
- Mott MacDonald Group Limited
- Resideo Technologies, Inc.
- Santori
- Sensata Technologies Plc
- TD SYNNEX Corporation
- The Blackstone Group
- Tropicana Products UK Ltd
Work highlights
- Appointed as lead global corporate restructuring legal advisers for Honeywell International Inc., advising on numerous international business reorganisation projects and related matters over the past 12 months.
- Acting for Aptiv plc as the lead legal counsel to support a range of significant multi-territory intra-group corporate transactions and reorganisations.
- Advising Jacobs Solutions, Inc as their primary legal corporate advisers, supporting on a range of multi-jurisdictional corporate transactions and reorganisations, both which have completed in the past year and which shall take place over the forthcoming 12 months.
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The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Georgie Blyth, Cynthia Chan