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Performance and Restructuring​

Performance and Restructuring

Achieving strong business performance requires discipline and collaboration. Some strategies to success are straightforward—others are complex and demanding. While you can sometimes go it alone, success often depends on pulling in diverse experience to moving forward together.​

Our Performance and Restructuring team works closely with you to monitor your company’s health and identify risks early. Small issues, if left unaddressed, can develop into challenges that impact your market position. We work alongside you to anticipate change and build long-term resilience.

Restructuring and crisis

Our Performance and Restructuring services strengthen your performance​

​We combine strategic insight and financial expertise to drive transformation and create lasting value. By aligning strategy, execution, and financing, we help you gain competitive advantages while building  stability and trust with stakeholders.​

Our business restructuring and crisis capabilities

Strategic reset

Strategic reset: We work with you to assess and shape your strategy and business model. Our portfolio analysis identifies core and non-core areas, helping you understand if you have the right capabilities to deliver. When performance dips, we support you in exploring options like turnaround, restructuring, strategic M&A, or wind-down.​

 

Operational performance​

Operational performance: We accelerate improvements by addressing inefficiencies and bottlenecks with cash as a key focus. By boosting efficiency and managing costs, we help you achieve effective turnaround and long-term resilience. We’re here to support carve-out, restructuring, and exit when needed.​

Financial performance​

Financial performance: We help build solid business plans and forecasts that show financial progress. We improve cash flow forecasting, increase liquidity, and embed financial resilience. Our integrated planning connects strategy, operations, and financing into clear, fully-funded plans.

Turnaround management office support​

Turnaround management office support: We step in with interim leadership to stabilise underperforming businesses and deliver recovery plans. We embed experienced professionals into CRO, CFO, or CEO roles to sharpen focus on liquidity, working capital, and profitability. Our approach combines hands-on execution with strategic oversight, turning recovery strategies into action and lasting value.

Financial advisory​

Financial advisory: We guide corporates, investors, and creditors through restructuring. From shaping strategy and managing liabilities to coordinating stakeholders and advising directors, we help you reduce risk, maintain credibility, and strengthen your position in conversations.​

Independent view

Independent view: We offer independent expertise to help craft and assess business plans, cash flow forecasts, and financial models. From quick plausibility checks to thorough reviews and due diligence, our work supports transparent, fact-based decision-making during difficult times.​

Capital solutions

Capital solutions: We provide a full spectrum of capital solutions to solve balance sheet challenges—from raising finance and refinancing debt to managing pensions and long-tail liabilities. We support special situations M&A, offer restructuring tax advice, and assist with negotiating terms to build sustainable capital structures.​

Formal processes

Formal processes: We serve in both solvent and insolvent appointments to safeguard value through careful execution. Our role covers contingency planning, recovery, counterfactual analysis, and guiding clients through formal restructuring processes. We support trustees and manage solvent liquidations.​

Management support

Management support: We deliver interim leadership and expert restructuring support to strengthen your finance and operational functions through change, transactions, or restructuring.

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Peter Wolterman

Peter Wolterman

Global Performance and Restructuring Leader, Partner, PwC Netherlands, PwC Netherlands

Ed Macnamara

Ed Macnamara

UK Performance and Restructuring leader, Partner, PwC United Kingdom

Peter Greaves

Peter Greaves

Asia Pacific Performance and Restructuring leader, Partner, PwC China

Steven Fleming

Steven Fleming

US Performance and Restructuring leader, Partner, PwC US

Daniel Steiner

Daniel Steiner

Partner, Lead Performance & Restructuring, Automotive & Industrials, PwC Germany

David Kelly

David Kelly

Restructuring and Insolvency Partner, PwC United Kingdom

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