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How PwC's M&A Team Centralized Research and Sped Up Client Prep
The Challenge:
Company and industry information scattered across multiple platforms.
Use Cases:
Market mapping
Investor & portfolio lookup
The Results:
Research consolidated in one platform, freeing up time for client-facing work.
PwC is one of the world's leading professional services networks, with more than 370,000 people across 149 countries working in audit and assurance, tax and legal, and deals and consulting. Guided by its purpose to build trust in society and solve important problems, the firm plays an active role in shaping Belgium's economic future. This case study is on how Gain supports PwC's Deals Advisory - M&A team in Brussels, Belgium.
The Manual Work Behind Meeting Prep
Ahead of client calls and meetings, PwC's Deals Advisory - M&A team needed fast, reliable access to company financials and industry insights. The team drew on a number of data platforms, but the information they needed was often hard to locate, or split across different sources, which meant they had to manually patch information together, which took time.
The Solution:
Depth of Coverage That Keeps Growing
PwC chose Gain for the depth of information available on the platform, from financials, ownership, and deal histories to proprietary insights not found anywhere else. The team also values that Gain keeps expanding, adding new intelligence to provide a full, interconnected view of the market.
Use Cases:
Supporting Research from Company Financials to Investor Portfolios
Sourcing company financials and industry information ahead of client calls and meetings
Mapping competitors to build out industry context
Reviewing investor portfolios to understand market positioning
The results:
More Time for the Work That Wins Mandates
Since adopting Gain, PwC's Deals Advisory - M&A team accesses reliable company and industry information in one platform, rather than across various tools. That consolidation has translated directly into time saved on research and client prep work.
That time saved has been redirected toward higher-value work. Rather than spending hours on data gathering, the team can ramp up faster on new industries and focus on other tasks, including analysis, relationship building, and other client-facing priorities.
