Tax for Growth

Tax for Growth
M&A Buy-side Insights

Tax for Growth

With the recent increase in mergers & acquisitions (M&A) deal flow across the globe, tax-related insurance structures have grown increasingly important as tools to create incremental deal value. In the current geopolitical climate, regulation changes have shifted from evolutionary to more of the rapid revolutionary camp.

Specifically, respondents identified three areas of risk as opportunity which open the aperture and need for tax-related financial strategies and structures to deliver the additional security and value that dealmakers are seeing.

  1. Tax Risk itself is an additional layer of risk to transaction values and timelines, resulting from the pace and potential impacts of regulatory changes.
  2. Cross-border challenges arising from a variety of regulatory complexities and the global nature of many deals.
  3. New regulation, end to existing regulation, and other ‘unknown unknowns’ in the tax arena.
 

Download now to discover:

  1. How much more acute is tax risk to deal success now as compared to the recent past?
  2. Which of the following factors do you find the most challenging when undertaking cross-border transactions?
  3. Which of the following tax reforms or trends is expected to most affect your investment strategies over the next 12-24 months?

72%

of respondents believe tax risk to deal success is much more acute now compared to recent past.