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KPMG’s Global Institutional Investors practice provides institutional clients, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and superannuations, with a range of services across our Audit, Tax and Advisory practices, utilizing a holistic approach to analyze complex challenges and deliver innovative and integrated services.

In today’s low-yield environment, institutional investors are challenged to make strategic decisions that satisfy organizational objectives and stakeholders’ expectations. For example, while many institutional investors have rebalanced their portfolio with larger allocations of passive or less complex investments, others seek higher returns through direct investments. They are evaluating the benefits of in-sourced investment models, and they seek counsel to adapt their internal capabilities and technology. Similarly, many institutions wish to grow their global footprint with satellite offices to better source and execute transactions. To do so, they require advice to weigh the benefits and risks and implement the optimal decisions.

KPMG member firms are well positioned with the skills and knowledge to bring forward innovative strategies that address the needs of public and private sector institutional investors. Our global team combines deep technical experience, a breadth of commercial and business understanding, and local market insight, to deliver strategies that meet both financial objectives and wider business goals.

Alternative investments

KPMG’s Global Alternative Investment practice delivers extensive services to real estate, private equity, infrastructure and hedge funds. Serving alternative investment clients in 60 major fund centers globally, our member firms combine their depth of local knowledge and global cross-border experience to provide fund managers with the clarity and confidence to execute their business strategies.

The alternative investments market is currently experiencing increased attention, as many investors seek greater portfolio diversification and the potential to enhance their risk adjusted performance. However, rising demand also brings new pressure to fund managers to revise their distribution strategies and refine their business and operational models to reach financial goals. For example, investors expect enhanced reporting across multiple channels and rising scrutiny of fees requires fund managers to optimize operational efficiency. Heightened regulation also creates new barriers to market entry and elevated operating costs, such as the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), which is prompting changes to systems, distribution, communication and reporting requirements.

As such, fund managers are pursuing new approaches to optimize profitability, manage costs and enhance their decision-making and compliance capabilities, including sophisticated data and analytics techniques. Our global team of specialized partners and professionals - complemented by KPMG’s Audit, Tax and Advisory services - deliver strategies that can meet the financial objectives and business goals of alternative investments clients.

Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive

The AIFMD, and the accompanying regulation, does what it says on the tin – it regulates the managers of funds other than Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities (UCITS), so-called alternative investment funds or AIFs. Unlike the UCITS directive, AIFMD does not include authorization or regulation of the funds themselves, but it provides a passport for any AIF to be marketed cross border within the European Union (EU) to professional investors.

The AIFMD sets out the authorization process and ongoing requirements across a wide range of areas. Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) have had to comply with the requirements since 22 July 2013, which also cover governance, minimum capital and conflicts of interest identification and management.

The directive has a global impact

It imposes requirements on third country asset managers to whom AIFMs delegate portfolio management. Also, any funds being marketed into the EU from third countries are impacted, as are managers outside the EU that manage or wish to manage EU-domiciled AIFs. The Commission has yet to activate the third country passport for non-EU AIFs and non-EU AIFMs. Meanwhile, national private placement regimes continue to apply.

Member States may choose to allow certain types of AIF to be marketed to retail investors in their jurisdictions, and may impose additional requirements on the AIFM or the AIF for this purpose. Member States must allow other AIFMs or AIFs established in another jurisdiction and that comply with the additional national requirements to be marketed to retail investors in their jurisdictions. Effectively, this is a bilateral passport for non -UCITS retail funds.

Each piece of EU post-financial crisis regulation includes a review clause, each with a different scope and timeline. The Alternative Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) is no exception: it specifies that the European Commission should have begun the review of the application and scope of the directive in July 2017. As part of that review, the Commission engaged KPMG on a report to look at whether the AIFMD’s objectives have been met, by assessing a number of the AIFMD requirements against five principles: effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and EU added value.

Mainstream investments and asset servicing

Turn opportunity into competitive advantage

There has never been a more exciting time to be managing assets. And the opportunities for Asset Managers are myriad. Is your organization ready?

What will your firm be famous for?

Will your organization capitalize on the shift towards EFTs? Will you capture your share of the growing Asia markets? Will your firm emerge as the digital leader in your chosen markets? Or will you take advantage of the trend towards responsible investing to increase your market share?

In today’s rapidly evolving world, the opportunities available to Asset Managers are unprecedented. The key is in knowing which opportunities will drive your next round of growth and then having the right skills and capabilities to maximize them. KPMG can help.

The right insights at the right time

KPMG’s network of Asset Management professionals understand how today’s disruption is creating opportunities for Asset Management firms around the world. And we have the right capabilities, insights and services to help Asset Managers create, maximize and protect their own unique advantages.

Contact your local KPMG member firm to find out how our network of Asset Management professionals can help your firm.

Wealth management

World-class solutions in a local context

The world is rapidly changing. And that is creating a host of new challenges and opportunities for today’s wealth management, private banking and similar organizations that distribute investment products and services. KPMG can help.

A different KPMG

Our professionals are already well-known for their trusted risk and regulatory advice in the sector. We also have capabilities we use to help our clients grow their business or streamline their operation (front to back). Our investments in innovation and technology enable our teams to provide creative solutions that help our clients remain relevant in a fast evolving market place.

When combined with our extensive range of services that includes HR consulting, change management, strategy and implementation, KPMG professionals have the end-to-end capabilities to help today’s wealth management organizations make the most of the rapidly changing environment.

Your local wealth management expert

Our professionals are deeply rooted in their local markets and boast extensive experience helping wealth management and private banking organizations navigate national and regional realities.

To find out how KPMG’s Wealth Management professionals can help your firm make the most of the current environment, contact your local KPMG member firm.

Private Equity

The global private equity sector is constantly facing new demands and evolving challenges. The fundraising environment is proving especially tough as some investors adopt a more cautious approach to the asset class as a result of decreased returns during the global financial crisis. Investors are now seeking improved returns for lower fees, and greater transparency.

Although the post-crisis economic recovery has been slow in most developed markets, the private equity sector appears in a state of cautious optimism as banking markets continue to recover. However, high prices for quality assets and a likely low-growth economic environment in the medium term in most developed markets will require General Partners to work harder and smarter to add value to their portfolios. This will require better operational understanding of targets pre-acquisition and likely more value enhancing intervention during ownership. Advisers will therefore need to have deep insight into the relevant business sectors and understand companies thoroughly from an operational and strategic perspective. In a challenging business climate, clarity is essential and we can provide it.

KPMG was the first accountancy organization to have a dedicated multi-disciplinary private equity group. Our professionals, leveraging global expertise from other areas of the firm, are ideally placed to help funds to address the challenges of these more benign market conditions, exploit opportunities in high-growth developing markets and ultimately add value for your investors.

Real Estate

Through our global network of member firms, KPMG is involved in every stage of the investment property and investment lifecycle, and offers experience in working with all levels of stakeholders throughout the real estate industry. Whether your focus is local, national, regional or global, we can provide you with the right mix of experience to support and enhance your needs and ambitions. Our knowledgeable real estate professionals focus on providing informed perspectives and clear solutions, drawing experience from a variety of backgrounds including accounting, tax, advisory, banking, regulation and corporate finance.

Our client focus, our commitment to excellence, our global mindset and consistent delivery build trusted relationships that are at the core of our business and reputation.

Mining

KPMG firms work side by side with mining organizations to help them meet both the practical, day-to-day challenges of their business, as well as develop long-term strategies for growth.

Oil & Gas

It’s clear that oil and gas companies are facing one of their most challenging times. For many of these organizations, a key to adapting will be finding an informed perspective that can help them position themselves for what the future may bring.

We understand the challenges that are facing the oil and gas industry. Pressure to reduce carbon emissions, volatile commodity prices, changing demand patterns, financing and regulations are all having significant impact. This environment is difficult for organization to assess and make change.

KPMG professionals support businesses across the oil and gas industry, from global corporations, independent and national oil companies, as well as refining and oil field services. We can help to grow your revenue, bring efficiency to operations, manage risk or access capital. We aim to future-proof businesses, helping to make them resilient and adapt to emerging challenges.

Power & Utilities

The industry is undergoing a significant transformation to keep up with shifting demands.

Power and utility organizations are operating in an environment where the regulatory landscape is shifting in response to climate change. Customers face increasing cost of living pressure while having higher expectations of their utility providers. Various technologies are maturing, converging and forming the next wave to disrupt the industry.

We expect permanent changes to work, travel, patterns of energy demand, a need for more intelligent energy systems and new business models.

Energy Transition

The energy transition stands as the defining challenge of our era. Every sector faces mounting pressure to power human progress in a way that is reliable and affordable but also, critically, more sustainable and equitable.

You've taken the bold step of committing to emissions reduction. Now, your employees, investors, regulators, and customers eagerly await your action.

It's time to accelerate your efforts and move forward decisively — with a clear sense of purpose and urgency.

Perhaps you're uncertain about where to begin, how to overcome obstacles, or how to identify the opportunities. What areas should you prioritize? What technologies, funding, and expertise are required?

Most importantly, how do you rally everyone to embrace this journey?

KPMG professionals are here to help guide you through this increasingly complex landscape, enabling you to deliver on your ambitions for your business, people and the planet.

Let's embark on this transformation together. Together we can light the way forward for your energy transition journey.

Renewables

KPMG member firms support the objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and are passionately committed to contributing our professional skills and expertise.

The world needs a clear path toward zero net emissions.The decarbonization of electricity systems and expansion of renewable energy across the world is a critical step toward this goal. This energy transition is underway and irreversible and, as a result, many of our clients are seeking to harness the opportunities it creates while grappling with the disruptive market forces it brings.

KPMG International’s Global Renewable Network is here to help clients succeed in the energy transition. Our innovative and integrated portfolio of services covering financial, strategic and regulatory advice, tax and accounting support can achieve effective results for government organizations, developers, generators and the wider investment community.

Furthermore, KPMG’s worldwide presence benefits member firm clients by combining valuable global insights with hands-on local expertise and an understanding of the unique challenges clients face in their individual markets.

Defense

KPMG’s Defense subject matter experts, functional specialists and Defense leaders aim to create solutions that meet a wide range of client challenges.

Defense organizations continuously face a myriad of new and complex challenges. At both a national and an international level, defending and protecting national interests is paramount. But as defense budgets start to constrict, government and defense leaders are increasingly seeking opportunities to enhance their defense capability while simultaneously reducing costs.

KPMG member firms have the deep expertise and global reach to assist governments with their most critical defense challenges. We have a strong history of assisting defense departments to better organize and manage their underlying capability support infrastructure such as maintenance, logistics, ICT, procurement, and facilities to obtain optimal capability outcomes.

Education

Supporting the planning, development and delivery of cost effective and quality education, training and research.

KPMG professionals work across the education sector – serving clients in K-12, vocational education and training, and higher education, as well as the strategic planners, funders and influencers of educational services – to help governments respond to the growing demand for education. Our mission is to support the planning, development and delivery of cost effective and quality education, training and research.

Together with KPMG's network of member firms, the Global Education practice provides Tax, Audit (internal and external) and Advisory services in business transformation, new models of delivery and quality improvement, and cost reduction and efficiency improvement reviews. We offer tailored solutions and practical advice to meet the unique needs of each segment.

K-12

Budget and financial management
Organization development
Audit, assurance and tax services

Vocational education and training

Curriculum and data reviews, including data quality
Development of services and approaches to better meet the needs of employers and students
Support for mergers and acquisitions, including corporate intelligence, due diligence and strategic options reviews
Efficiency reviews
Organization development

Higher education

Audit and assurance services
Tax and due diligence services, including international taxation, employment tax and compliance with national tax systems
IT optimization, integration and rollout
Procurement optimization
Cost reduction services
Strategic planning and development
Development of new operational and business models and processes
Financing and investment advisory services
Grant attestation services

Strategic planners, funders and influencers

Research services
Regulatory and funding system design and implementation
Program design and implementation
Infrastructure development and financing

Sport

Our Sports professionals are here to address the specific needs of our sports clients.

The KPMG Global Sport Network is comprised of over 100 partners and 1,000+ professionals from all over the world dedicated to serving sports clients. Whether it's optimizing tax strategies, ensuring regulatory compliance, conducting thorough audits, or providing strategic advisory services, our KPMG Global Sport Network leverages our extensive experience and deep industry insights to deliver customized solutions that drive financial success and stay ahead in a highly competitive global sports landscape. Improving business performance, turning risk and compliance efforts into opportunities, developing winning strategies and creating, enhancing and preserving value are at the core of what we do for sports organizations worldwide.

Consulting Solutions By Capability

Audit & Assurance

Financial statement audits give assurance over information used by investors and the capital markets.

At KPMG we act in the public interest and the capital markets. Our professionals inspire trust in data and financial information and our focus on innovation delivers efficiency and value to our clients.

We are committed to providing exceptional audits by introducing transformational technologies that have the ability to reshape the audit process and exceed expectations.

By leveraging the power of evolving technologies to deliver quality audits and fresh insights, KPMG is a leader in driving the future of audit.

Tax & Legal

Attitudes to tax are changing. Organizations of all sizes are ever more exposed to new trends in tax regulation, not just locally but globally.

Leading in an evolving tax and business landscape

The world around us has changed dramatically in recent years, with geopolitical shifts and technological innovation; globalization, on the one hand, and protectionism, on the other; various tax reforms and regulatory change; new business and consumer demands and the emergence of previously unseen types of business models. These shifts and the resulting complexities and pressures are felt even more acutely in the wake of COVID-19.

As a tax leader operating in this new reality, you are expected to be not only a technical specialist, but also a brand ambassador and trusted advisor to your business and board as you work to protect the organization, boost performance, drive digital transformation and contribute to the sustainability goals of the organization. Our award-winning global network of tax professionals is here to help.

We work with many Fortune 500 organizations, multinational enterprises, as well as Family Offices, and entrepreneurs. We are united by our values, governed by our Global Tax Principles, and driven by our purpose to inspire confidence and empower change by delivering the modern tax services and data-driven solutions needed today. Our professionals work with you to define and build an ideal target operating model, improve compliance processes, engage in discussions around responsible tax, manage complex transactions, and add more value to the business and beyond.

Private Enterprise

Passion, it’s what drives entrepreneurs, it’s also what inspires KPMG Private Enterprise advisers to help you maximize success. You know KPMG, you might not know KPMG Private Enterprise. KPMG Private Enterprise advisers in member firms around the world are dedicated to working with you and your business, no matter where you are in your growth journey – whether you’re looking to reach new heights, embrace technology, plan for an exit, or manage the transition of wealth or your business to the next generation. Working with KPMG Private Enterprise, you’ll gain access to a trusted advisor – a single point of contact who shares your entrepreneurial mindset. With access to KPMG’s global resources and alliance network, we’ll help you drive your business forward and meet your goals. Your success is our legacy.

Environmental, social and governance (ESG)

In today’s increasingly disruptive world of climate disasters, political conflict and societal inequalities, rapid ESG progress is crucial to achieving a more sustainable future.

KPMG, as a global organization, knows the intrinsic power of ESG to transform your business and our professionals can show you how to enhance trust, mitigate risk and unlock new value as you transform to build a sustainable future. Member firms’ services are holistic and practical to guide your teams to drive sustainable innovation across your business.

Through industry-leading expertise, data-driven technology and global alliances, KPMG’s experience across critical ESG issues means our professionals can assist you in creating the right roadmap for your ESG journey.

KPMG helps turn insight into opportunity for your business, people and the planet and designed our services to put ESG at the core of your operations — where it should be.

Ready for ESG reporting?

Global sustainability reporting is here.

The global ESG reporting landscape is transforming, with corporate activity set to be highly scrutinized under new sustainability reporting standards.

Timing is critical. Both the international and the EU sustainability standards are now effective for the first wave of companies reporting on 2024 year ends. In the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) climate rule first applies for certain companies reporting on 2025 year ends.

This will be challenging for many organizations, not just the most complex. Investors and stakeholders have high expectations for the quality of these ESG disclosures.

These pages provide our insight, high-level guidance and detailed analysis to help inform your reporting strategy.

ESG strategy, transformation and implementation

Stakeholders progressively have an interest in ESG performance, and an embedded strategy is required to structure and prioritize the numerous potential ESG fields of action.

A broad-ranging ESG strategy enables a company to address environmental and social risks and capitalize on resulting commercial opportunities. Organizations should have a clear understanding of the complex and evolving policy, regulatory, and business environment issues to understand where they can have the greatest impacts on long-term value creation to transform their business.

KPMG firms around the globe know the transformative power of ESG and help clients develop and embed an ESG strategy that helps create long-term value and competitive advantage while balancing business needs with those of your stakeholders.

KPMG professionals can ease the ESG transformation and implementation process for clients, as well as help navigate the complex ESG landscape by building a more sustainable and resilient business which can swiftly adapt to market and regulatory change. We place a strong focus on the human side of transformation — enabled and scaled though technology and alliances — to bring your workforce, suppliers and customers along on the journey to meet your ambitions to become a competitive, purpose-driven business.

ESG value and deals

ESG has become a leading topic in deal discussions and can impact deal value — but strong ESG credentials can help drive deal activity — and with an increased focus on sustainability, there’s a need to incorporate ESG into the DNA of the business and integrate it across the deal life cycle.

A business that performs well across all components of ESG can attract more interest, investment and higher multiples, while businesses that have weak ESG credentials can be undervalued. Many stakeholders and shareholders apply pressure to their money managers to account for, and report on their investment decisions from an ESG perspective — and demonstrating ESG compliance, commitment and transparency naturally brings enhanced deal value while creating value for people and the planet.

KPMG firms employ an ESG framework to our deal valuation which sets out minimum standards that companies are expected to follow and is an integral part of both the due diligence process and post-acquisition stewardship. We can help you integrate ESG into the deal process, helping to ensure the appropriate analysis is done to focus on what’s materially relevant.

With ESG factors being increasingly important for accessing new capital and debt, some deal evaluators now consider them equal to financial measures. Our professionals work closely across functions to regularly evaluate and enhance potential ESG financing options, identify possible lenders, and prepare companies for their sale, merger, or acquisition.

Climate, decarbonization and nature

Climate change and biodiversity depletion are among the most pressing issues facing the world today — triggering economic transformation, driving fundamental business model change, and leading to a rethink of what business as usual looks like.

Business commitments to reach net-zero emissions and reduce their impacts on the planet have increased rapidly. As the global push toward decarbonization accelerates and the impacts of climate change play out globally, businesses are preparing for a low-carbon future — rising to stakeholder demands for accountability on plans, action, and progress.

Strong decarbonization targets and robust transition plans to decarbonize business operations and supply chains, together with targets and actions to reduce impacts on nature, are now expected. Boards are under significant pressure to address environmental issues, and businesses must grasp the implications of climate and nature risks and opportunities.

KPMG's climate, decarbonization and nature teams form an extensive global network of deep expertise, established services, innovative technologies and carefully selected alliances, spanning:

Climate and nature risk
Decarbonization strategy and implementation
Climate policy and incentives advisory
Low carbon deal advisory

KPMG professionals can help navigate this increasingly complex landscape, enabling you to deliver on your environmental ambitions for your business, people and the planet.

ESG assurance in audit

As market and stakeholder expectations evolve and reporting requirements become mandatory, the ESG information companies publish must be accurate, reliable, and complete to provide confidence in your business.

Traditionally, financial information alone was subject to independent assurance, but organizations are increasingly seeking assurance on a broad range of information that is measurable and actionable. Investors and other stakeholders are demanding more information on climate action, sustainability, governance, and social issues that provide a holistic view of your organization, and information needs to be accurate so that it can be relied upon.

ESG assurance requires the same rigor demanded in your financial statement audit, including understanding the strong link between financial and non-financial information. ESG assurance providers should have the same deep level of understanding of a company’s business model that is required for an audit of financial information. This can help eliminate redundancy, connect risks, and create cost efficiency — in line with your own ESG reporting journey.

KPMG audit professionals can help bridge the gap and provide assurance across a wide range of sectors, frameworks, and metrics to ensure that you can meet the increasing requirements mandated by regulators and expected by stakeholders. Our teams stand ready to serve the public interest in providing ESG assurance over what truly matters.

ESG tax and legal

A rapidly evolving global landscape is driving increased demands and pressures on businesses to implement sustainable initiatives that turn ESG into action. This shift is also an opportunity to help fulfil their purpose, achieve goals and position themselves for future growth.

Businesses have become exposed to significant ESG legal risk due to a global imperative to change corporate behavior, which requires a deep understanding of rules and regulations across jurisdictions.

Having robust tax policies and practicing good tax governance are critical steps when increasing transparency to showcase responsible tax practices. Being able to benchmark against standards and peers provides valuable insights and improves decision making. As businesses take steps to decarbonize their business and supply chains, it is imperative they consider where rapidly changing tax regulations may impact strategic decisions, as costs could increase, but significant opportunities to access tax incentives or other funding opportunities may arise.

KPMG firms bring specialized knowledge to areas which might have tax and legal implications, with services spanning:

Environmental taxes, incentives, and subsidies, and grants
EU Green Deal advice on tax, regulatory and access to funding
International fair tax environment advice
ESG tax governance, transparency and benchmarking
ESG supply and value chain changes; tax and legal services
Employee engagement and enablement on ESG activities
ESG deals and sustainable finance; tax and legal transformation services
Managing ESG legal risk and ESG litigation

As stakeholder expectations evolve, tax matters will increasingly become part of the ESG transformation journey. Companies should seek to understand how to navigate the changing tax and legal sustainability landscape; because no matter what stage you’re at, KPMG professionals can assist in strengthening your company’s tax and legal reporting and governance, to improve transparency and help keep it safe.

Circular economy

Society has long been accustomed to ‘take, make, waste’ methods to production, but these practices are no longer sustainable. To face the challenges of a growing world population, climate change and resource scarcity, the world must change the way we consume — away from the linear, towards a more circular approach.

Businesses are turning towards a circular economy model to help manage regulatory requirements and generate sustainable growth opportunities that deliver ESG benefits. This creates greater efficiency and profitability, less waste, better innovation, and stronger relationships with stakeholders.

Collaboration is critical to the success of more circular ecosystems and KPMG’s global reach enables our professionals to advise clients as they shape and develop new circular strategies and business models. As businesses reimagine and reinvent their existing products, supply chain and services, our teams help integrate circularity through:

Circular strategy
Measurement and steering
Circular execution and delivery

Circular economy principles and programs are an engine to accelerate sustainability and for those who want to do well in the new economy, circularity is key to remain relevant and future-proof their business. Adopting a circular mindset is a core part of a company’s journey towards better ESG-performance — in a world where we can no longer afford to use up essential resources — requiring production models that work for generations to come.

Sustainable supply chain

Regardless of industry sector or regional base, supply chains give rise to climate and social risks worldwide — and are a source of high energy use, waste accumulation, biodiversity loss, global greenhouse gas emissions, and human rights abuses.

The world will not achieve net-zero targets or the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals without transforming the impact of global, regional and domestic supply chains that helps create a fair and equal society for everyone. And as companies feel increasing pressure from stakeholders, business leaders have started taking a critical look at their supply chains with an ESG lens.

Not having the appropriate technology, data insights and tools to effectively measure and track ESG initiatives, combined with a lack of skills and expertise, can make it difficult for companies to deliver on their ESG goals. This can lead to stakeholder skepticism, reputational harm and corresponding financial impacts.

KPMG firms understand these risks and opportunities and our supply chain and procurement teams can help you improve the sustainability of your operations and allow you to effectively monitor, manage and report on ESG-related issues, providing a clearer picture of your supply chain risks.

KPMG teams can help you to transform your supply chain to become more ethical, sustainable and transparent — enabling you to make more informed buying decisions, collaborate better with your suppliers and become more accountable for your environmental footprint.

Social

Systemic inequality is a source of risk that limits productivity and has the potential to constrain consumer spending and growth, destabilize supply chains, trigger political instability, and jeopardize social license to operate.

An increasingly unstable economic environment, along with severe climate events, is fueling political and social unrest — creating a vicious cycle of growing inequality and deteriorating social cohesion. And while the ‘S’ in ESG is critical to ensuring a fair and equitable world, it is also a business opportunity to make things right.

Corporate adherence to ESG principles has become a legal imperative and stakeholders are demanding more transparency and accountability. Companies that meet rising social expectations can attract and retain talent, generate business opportunities and improve their reputations — while those who fail to adapt may struggle to compete.

At KPMG, we understand the interlinks between the social, environmental and governance pillars of ESG, and KPMG firms can help you connect the dots to help ensure your business is fair, inclusive and sustainable — supporting your company through a rapidly changing social landscape to better serve customers, clients, and the communities in which we live.

ESG governance

High performing companies are realizing that good and robust governance drives environmental and social responsibility. As organizations continue to adapt to an ever-changing landscape, boards and management must prepare to address the new dynamics affecting their oversight roles and the governance of their organizations.

Boards have responsibilities to steer their organization toward sustainability and ensure the ESG information under their oversight is appropriate, reliable and compliant.

While plenty of guidance and information exists, standards and regulations addressing specific areas of responsibility and reporting continue to evolve. Governance covers a wide variety of issues including risk management and internal controls, data harvesting and data breaches, executive remuneration, board diversity and competences as well as shareholder rights.

KPMG understands that a focus on governance can underpin the success of the broader ESG strategy by ensuring that both the people and policies are fit for purpose. Member firms offer a suite of services designed to review your governance structures so that they are effective and efficient — to remove inadequacies, and ensure your board and leadership has the required expertise.

How you run your company is the foundation of strong ESG and without it, your license to operate could be at risk. By reviewing your ESG policies and practices along key financial and societal performance measures, KPMG professionals can help you ensure greater accountability, more effective decision making, and stronger compliance throughout your entire organization.

Transaction Services

Helping you realize desired results with a deliberate, forward-thinking approach to deal planning, execution and integration.

There is more pressure than ever before to ensure deals deliver lasting results for stakeholders. At KPMG, we see transactions through an investor’s lens and are focused on helping clients identify, evaluate and successfully implement their growth strategies in today’s complex business landscape.

Deals fail for any number of reasons. But you can realize the results you and your stakeholders desire by taking a deliberate, forward-thinking approach to deal planning, execution and integration in light of your entire business, your sector and the global economy.

KPMG’s integrated network of specialists across member firms bring a leading practices approach that emphasizes creating and preserving stakeholder value, combined with our deep knowledge, experience and forward-looking perspectives.

Supported by superior analytic tools and proprietary data, our transaction methodology transcends traditional due diligence and takes into account an expanded universe of risks and rewards. As a result, we help deal makers manage risks, take advantage of opportunities and deliver tangible results.

We provide a range of highly tailored advisory services that span the transaction lifecycle, helping you focus on the key questions at every critical stage.

Does this deal align to my strategic business objectives?
Will this deal help me respond to market and competitor dynamics?
What are the risks and opportunities that will affect value and my negotiating position?
How do I maximize synergies and add value?
Are there any reporting, accounting and tax structure ramifications of the transaction?

Global Mergers & Acquisitions

M&A demands decision makers to make the right moves confidently and swiftly to avoid missing opportunities.

Whether you are raising capital to strengthen your market position, acquiring business to accelerate growth or selling your firm, you need a trusted partner with extensive experience of delivering successful Mergers and Acquisitions deals.

If you are a corporate, private equity firm or SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies), our investment bankers, with their in-depth understanding of the complexities and challenges in the global M&A markets across industries, will offer strategic insights to help you achieve your goals.

Our Global M&A team of 3,000+ investment professionals across 86 countries have the resources, and industry expertise to realize the goals you envision for your business. We give you services tailored to meet your key priorities - We are experienced in buy side, sell side, private equity, special situations M&A, public to private transactions and several other areas of M&A.

Our corporate finance services

The deals we supported

We work with you to ensure your deals are successful and that shareholder's objectives are achieved. The global Corporate Finance practice has been ranked #1 in the Global Middle-Market League Tables for over 20 years (Refinitiv) and #1 advisor with 9,169 deals closed globally between 2004 and 2023.

The extensive list of KPMG's Global Completed M&A Deals speaks volumes about the capabilities of our teams and the substantial trust we have gained in the global market on our ability as advisors to take the deals to successful completion.

Talk to our experts

Connect with us to discuss your M&A strategy and goals. Whether you are buying or selling, we will work with you through every step of the M&A lifecycle, right from drawing up the best strategic options to successfully executing the transaction and realizing the full value of the deal.

Market Insights

Our experts publish a wide range of thought leadership materials to help you stay informed about the trends in the global deals market.

Stay connected to the latest updates on key M&A topics through industry insight reports, market update reports, deal announcements, podcasts and videos by KPMG industry leaders and clients.

Equity Capital Markets

Equity Capital Markets Advisory teams across KPMG’s member firms support and guide clients with regard to any kind of equity raising in the global capital markets – be it an initial public offering (IPO), raising new equity for established issuers or selling a stake in a quoted company in the public markets.

Our globally experienced teams offer clients the broadest integrated portfolio of expertise available in the marketplace. This extends from deal experienced equity capital markets experts to accounting, regulatory, tax, compliance, corporate governance and other technical specialists.

Our transaction approach is bespoke. We assemble multi-disciplinary teams to provide a customized and holistic advisory approach for each transaction. Our advice is comprehensive, and rooted in decades of deal experience, free of conflicts and completely focused on our clients’ objectives. We also work in partnership with corporate and investment banks, private equity firms, institutional investors and legal advisors to achieve optimal results for our clients.

Our integrated network of Deal Advisory teams focus on the key questions to help you preserve maximum value at every stage of the capital lifecycle.

How do I maximize shareholder and stakeholder value?
What sources of equity may be available?
How do I achieve the best terms?
How do I manage communications?
How do I manage stakeholder communications to maintain lender and shareholder support?

Debt

The debt markets are dynamic and complex. Raising new debt on favorable terms or renewing existing facilities can be challenging even for the strongest borrowers and issuers. This requires our clients to constantly appraise the nature of their present banking relationships, evaluate alternative pools of capital, understand their true cost of capital and approach financing in the context of an effective overall capital management strategy.

Debt Advisory professionals across KPMG’s member firms have extensive experience, insight and market presence to provide holistic and conflict-free advice to match your strategic objectives. We offer hands-on assistance in analyzing options, structuring, arranging and achieving financial close across the full spectrum of debt products.

Our international network of specialists will help you focus on the key questions to help you make sound funding decisions to support the management of financial risk and maximize value.

Do our capital management plans align with our long-term strategic objectives?
How can I best structure funding to understand and maximize value across all markets?
What are my restructuring and recapitalization options?

Valuation

As our world continues to face rapid and profound change, maintaining a precise understanding of market dynamics and the impact of economic volatility on the value of your business or assets is crucial. Today more than ever, the proven expertise and insights of dedicated valuation and sector specialists can keep you on the path to opportunity and success.

Are you considering an acquisition or disposal, creating a joint venture, or involved in a commercial dispute or litigation? Are you determining value for financial reporting or tax purposes, or raising funds to expand core capabilities? Whatever the challenge in these disruptive times, our valuation specialists are here to help.

KPMG’s global network of more than 2,000 valuation professionals working in more than 70 countries today are providing robust and informed guidance on valuation matters across multiple sectors, deal stages and client types.

Using the latest data analytics, simulations and visualization tools, KPMG has the capabilities to address the most-complex modelling and valuation issues.

Independent board advice / Fairness opinions: At KPMG, we advise senior management and boards of public and private companies on how they can raise capital, prioritize market opportunities or consider mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and divestitures.
Accounting, tax and regulatory valuations: We can assist in determining the fair (market) value of equity shares, assets or complex financial instruments under accounting, tax or other regulatory standards such as IPEV, IVS or OECD. Our professionals have the expertise to also provide Purchase Price Allocations (PPA), Impairment Testing, IFRS 16 support, employee or management incentive scheme valuations and recurring fund valuations.
Investment / M&A advice and economic analysis: We can provide timely and impartial advice based on advanced data analytics, benchmarking, modelling and valuation concepts for deal pricing, capital-allocation strategies, synergy assessment and strategic-option assessment.
Dispute, litigation and expert valuations: We have extensive experience in providing expert witness evidence across a range of dispute-resolution processes, either as a party-appointed, jointly engaged, or court/tribunal-appointed independent expert witness. We provide damage quantifications on contract breaches, IP infringements or shareholder/JV partner disputes. Our strategic and analytical approach is designed to reduce the likelihood of an opinion being challenged and to provide closure to both parties.
Venture capital, early stage and LBO valuations: We offer independent analysis and valuation of equity shares and IP when you are raising equity or debt financing, including modelling robust financial business plans based on insights gained thorough commercial due diligence.
Restructuring: We help lenders, companies and administrators in the context of restructurings by providing valuation advice and strategic disposal options in connection with independent business reviews and independent valuation opinions.

Turnaround & Restructuring

The support you want when your company or investment is facing a crisis

It is relatively easy to fall off the path to growth. It’s far more difficult to get back on. KPMG’s global network of Turnaround and Restructuring professionals can help you do it.

Our teams of creative and dedicated problem solvers are single-mindedly focused on quickly and effectively putting you back on the path to growth. Leveraging our global firm’s full range of capabilities and deep sectoral experience, our professionals create unique solutions to your problems, supported by some of the industry’s most innovative tools, enabling technologies and proven methodologies.

KPMG is the one global network that can take you from ‘value preservation’ mode to value creation and growth, supporting you every step of the way from the ideas stage to implementation. Our focus is on helping you solve your problems, so you can get your company back on the growth path.

Turnaround and value creation

In today’s market, speed is of the essence. KPMG’s member firms are ready and available to provide you with transformation and turnaround services to quickly move you back from crisis mode to the path to growth.

Our transformation and turnaround specialists across our global network understand the risks and rewards of a transformational turnaround. We combine tested methodologies with deep sector knowledge and the foresight that comes from experience to help you quickly spot opportunities to create value and strengthen your cash and liquidity position.

We will guide you through each phase of the transformation or turnaround process – from establishing an early plan of action that clearly explains what needs to happen when, to developing a longer term strategic plan that balances the different priorities of all stakeholders, all the way through to execution and value realization.

As we drive a rapid transformation to meet stakeholder objectives, our people focus on the key questions that will help you create a leaner, more flexible and far more competitive company.

How can I quickly and effectively assess all my options?
How can I transform the business and strengthen its financial position?
What financial impact might I realize with the various options?
How can I execute my transformation or turnaround plan?
How can I make sure my plan delivers value?

Restructuring and value stabilization

When your organization or investment is facing financial distress, you can count on KPMG to help you stabilize the situation, give you all your options for a holistic financial restructuring, and then agree and execute your plan.

Our teams of creative and dedicated problem solvers are single-mindedly focused on quickly and

Insolvencyeffectively putting you back on the path to growth. Leveraging our global firm’s full range of capabilities and deep sectoral experience, our professionals create unique solutions to your problems, supported by some of the industry’s most innovative tools, enabling technologies and proven methodologies.

Our multi-disciplinary teams are ready to deploy quickly and will move at deal-speed to bring you through the ‘value stabilization’ stage to ‘value creation’ and the path to growth, supporting you every step of the way.

Our global network of Deal Advisory professionals will help you solve complex problems or implement improvements, while guiding you through the key questions that will strengthen your financial performance.

Do I have enough funding to keep operating while a solution is being developed and implemented?
Do I know what has gone wrong and how to fix it?
What sustainable capital/debt structure offers the best prospects of future success?
How do I reconcile all stakeholder positions and interests to implement the new debt/capital structure?
What will be the role of the alternative capital/debt providers in the solution?
How do I ensure that the business is supported through its recovery?
How can different pre-insolvency legislation be applied to help to get the financial restructuring agreement in place?

Insolvency

When companies find themselves in distressed situations, it can sometimes seem like the options and opportunities are limited. Let KPMG Insolvency professionals show you all of your options.

KPMG’s experienced Insolvency professionals work with creditors and the courts to help companies preserve value. We carefully assess the situation – using our experience to spot the risks, opportunities and merits of each option (or combination of options) for the different stakeholders – and then leverage our integrated, global team to guide you every step of the way through the insolvency process.

We work side-by-side with executives, creditors, stakeholder lawyers and the courts to rapidly identify the extent of distress and uncover opportunities to capture short-term value. Our goal is to get the company through the insolvency plan and, wherever possible, back on the path to growth.

Our Deal Advisory professionals will focus on the hard questions that will stabilize your situation and position your company for a return to health and solid financial standing.

What are my options?
What procedures should I consider?
What are the execution risks?
How do I maximize value even in such a distressed situation?

Joint Ventures and Alliances

Businesses thrive on good partnerships. Structures such as joint ventures, alliances and consortiums can offer an effective approach to achieving a wide range of strategic objectives. However, given their very nature implies less than full control, they need constant care and attention to deliver the value intended.

KPMG’s globally experienced team of specialists across its member firms have the experience and knowledge to guide you every step of the way. We are dedicated to working with these forms of arrangements, right across their lifecycle, to give you the confidence from creation to exit.

With access to global resources, we will connect you with local relationships and knowledge so you have the full understanding of the strategic, financial, operational and legal implications in creating and setting up a joint venture. When the partnership is underperforming, we use a non-traditional, tailored approach to optimize, reset or exit the joint venture.

Our global network of Deal Advisory professionals focuses you on the key questions to help you preserve maximum value at every stage of the joint venture lifecycle.

What are the key activities to enter into a partnership?
How do I design a robust partnership, built to last?
How do I operationalize this new partnership?
How do I ensure that cultural issues do not become an obstacle to the alliance?
Is my portfolio of partnerships delivering all possible value?

Strategy

Innovation to results – KPMG’s Global Strategy Group provides a new perspective on how to design and implement strategies that win in today’s market.

As disruptive new technologies emerge and sector convergence sets industries on collision courses, both opportunities and threats present themselves in the shape of new markets, propositions, channels, capabilities and behaviors. When organizations from different industries meet in the market for the first time, and when disruptive new entrants are added into the mix, the impact becomes more complex, less predictable, and usually leads to shortened lifespans of business models.

As such, the task of allocating and generating return on investment has become more demanding. Organizations need to be more agile, with greater control and visibility over strategy and operations. Significant opportunity exists for organizations that are bold, seize change and are prepared to rethink their portfolios of businesses, markets, brands, and customers. This increases the importance of aligning financial, business and operating models.

We support organizations and executive teams in defining their ambition and developing innovative strategies that embed the agility, customer-centricity and operational excellence needed to thrive in dynamic markets. But, we don’t stop there – we draw on KPMG’s deep functional expertise to work shoulder to shoulder with our clients through implementation and deliver targeted results by accelerating momentum, locking down value and de-risking both decisions and actions.

We call this ‘Innovation to Results’.

KPMG Managed Services

Gain and sustain advantage in digital transformation.

In an environment of constant change, you can only go so far with traditional managed services focused mainly on labor arbitrage for transactional work.

What if you could use managed services to build functions that pivot at the speed of the market? To gain and sustain innovation, resilience, and other outcomes?

KPMG member firms make this possible with managed services that are transformational, not transactional.

Managed services that go beyond

As strategic collaborators, KPMG professionals help you create effective operating models. So whether you’re modernizing a process or transforming an entire business function, you can turn your vision into long-term value.

Combining advanced technology with industry-specific expertise, advisory capabilities, alliances, and change management, KPMG firms help take you:

Beyond the back office, transforming high-value processes throughout your business—both non-core and core.
Beyond cost savings, helping you drive outcomes from stakeholder trust to customer retention, while reducing operational costs by as much as 15 to 45 percent.
Beyond technology, with services that are tech-enabled but strategy-led. So you can accelerate your journey, sustain it, and move ahead of competitors—while limiting disruption and risk.

Operationalize your growth ambition with KPMG Managed Services to help you:

Accelerate transformation
Quickly respond to market change
Build and sustain stakeholder trust
Access specialized talent
Generate insights
Retain customers and employees

Your transformation journey partner, from vision to value

Accelerated transformation is the path to sustained advantage, but in a world of constant flux, transformation is not a destination. By the time you get there, “there” has already moved on.

That’s why it’s not enough to just transform. Many companies need to do so continually—with flexible models that keep evolving.

KPMG firms can help you create these operating models, delivering processes on a subscription, as-a-service basis that’s designed to provide:

Predictable costs
Meaningful outcomes
The option to flex up or down to meet fast-changing needs
Operational excellence
A superior client experience
Any-shore delivery

Growth strategy

Growth is one of the top agenda items for CEOs. Companies are targeting aggressive growth strategies in response to structural shifts caused by new technologies, changing regulations, evolving customer needs and sector convergence.

However, realizing growth is extremely challenging - with the majority of organizations unable to achieve and sustain their growth ambitions.

The Global Strategy Group's (GSG) approach to driving step-change growth and top-quartile performance addresses issues such as:

How to access new and unmet revenue and profit pools
How to profitably enter new markets and segments in a short timeframe
How to develop and commercialize innovative products in order to grow
How to attract new customers and enhance loyalty

GSG's approach is based on identifying and implementing a prioritized set of growth platforms that will enable clients to achieve their growth ambitions.

Operating strategy & cost (OS&C)

With ever-increasing customer expectations, rapid market and technology changes, increasing levels of regulation and growing shareholder scrutiny on performance, business leaders are being forced to continually re-evaluate their operational strategy.

The Global Strategy Group's (GSG) approach helps business leaders to do this by balancing short term cost improvements with long-term change. It helps address key questions such as:

How do I align my operating model given changes in market, competitive dynamics, or business strategy?
Is there potential to improve my performance and how am I comparing to competitors?
How do I simplify complex and inefficient operating model structures?
What will technologically or regulatory driven change mean for my operating model?

GSG helps clients generate value by challenging strategic decisions and align their operating model to their business strategy and financial targets by:

Developing and testing a range of alternative operating model options to identify the optimal solution for their business, balancing opportunities and risks
Identifying, quantifying and prioritizing efficiency opportunities, to drive cost reduction and free up funds for investment
Identifying opportunities to leverage relevant emerging technology and digital capabilities to embed agility and efficiency in current processes
Streamlining and aligning processes, organizational structures, management information, decision rights and incentives
Designing and sequencing a change program to successfully deliver the required changes

Deal strategy

M&A enables faster realization of growth through access to new markets, sales and distribution channels, new capabilities, or by simplifying and optimizing infrastructure, operations and costs. Refining corporate portfolios through disposals also creates value to re-orient and re-invest.

Successful execution of M&A, however, is elusive - many mergers and acquisitions fail.

KPMG's Global Strategy Group (GSG) helps create value by challenging conventional thinking, bringing real industry insights and 'investor-grade' rigour, and providing on-the-ground support. The GSG's approach focuses on the key deal questions, such as:

How will the target enable new, sustainable growth?
How valuable and overlapping is the customer base? Are sales channels profitable?
In what direction could this deal take the new organization?
Are the targets, capabilities and infrastructure well understood?
Which opex and capex synergies are really achievable and by when?
How significant are integration challenges/costs likely to be?
How resilient are the targets' financial, business and operating models in the face of digital disruption?

GSG provides strategic and financial advice on raising capital, helps with decisions on where to invest, uncovers new opportunities, and provides rigorous M&A support pre, during and post deal, including:

Target identification and evaluation
M&A (buy-side, sell-side) due diligence and synergy cases
JV and partnership strategy
Refinancing and restructuring
Exit strategies, divestments and carve-outs
IPO support
Integration/seperation planning and execution

Enterprise-wide transformation

In today's dynamic market, organizations must be willing to transform or risk irrelevance. Enterprise-wide transformation is driven by external triggers such as disruptive forces impacting financial, business and operating models; or internal motivations such as driving synergies and efficiencies within and between business units and aligning stakeholder interests.

KPMG's Global Strategy Group (GSG) helps organizations determine whether or not and to what extent transformation is genuinely required.

Bringing strategic thinking and the hands-on skillsets to deliver on transformation, GSG is distinctive in its ability to enact, rather than merely design or plan for enterprise-wide change. GSG helps organizations address the following questions in designing, planning and implementing their enterprise-wide transformations:

How to refresh or shift the company's strategy, given recent changes in the market dynamics?
How to improve internal/external perception of the business and alignment between the ambition, business and operating models?
How to manage the portfolio and improve the role of the corporate center?
What are the intended and unintended consequences to the wider whole of decisions in each unit or in one part of the business or operating model?
How strong is the company's readiness to execute transformation and what challenges likely await on that journey?

GSG's approach provides the overarching framework for multi-year strategic planning, capital allocation, portfolio and synergy assessments, scenario planning, corporate center redesigns, and other modularized enterprise-wide services.

Digital strategy

The accelerated pace of technology change raises some questions that go to the heart of strategic planning. Organizations may need to rethink which markets they operate in, what problems they are solving for their customers, their role in the value chain and efficacy of current operating models. They need to consider the new opportunities created by emerging technologies, and evaluate their readiness to adapt to change.

KPMG's digital strategy proposition helps put strategy before technology and answer some of these key questions for clients:

What does digital mean in their context - what are the most promising ideas and what is their exposure to disruption?
What future digital profile will help deliver their corporate vision and strategy?
Are these ideas feasible to implement? Will they adequately deliver desired outcomes? Have all risks and consequences been considered?
How to deliver value while balancing short term wins with long term goals while maintaining optionality?

Our approach to digital strategy is underpinned by the 9 Levers of Value framework to bring benefits to clients by:

Collaborating with broad group of stakeholders to ensure ideas that pass through design sprints are feasible and robust
Directly exposing clients to innovators and start-ups to supplement KPMG's experience and capabilities
Using design thinking principles to rapidly prototype, test and iterate ideas to help break fixedness in thinking and encourage innovation
Setting out the financial ambition and vision upfront to help focus efforts and ensure strategic alignment

Operations advisory

If there is one certainty about supply chains and sourcing functions across all sectors it is that they will be disrupted, whether through logistical, geopolitical, environmental, or new, unforeseen challenges. This means there is nothing more important than embracing new capabilities to be agile and resilient, efficient, and cost effective. Increasingly, supply chain and sourcing leaders must also stand up to intense Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) scrutiny from regulators and stakeholders, adding to their robust program of work.

At KPMG, our operations professionals draw on deep sector insights, technological innovations, tailored methodologies, risk expertise, and cutting-edge sustainability measures to help you create supply chains and sourcing functions for this dynamic environment.

Our approach

As we support your supply chain transformation, we use our unique supply chain and sourcing tools and methodologies to make design decisions simpler. Importantly, we leverage our Powered Supply Chain and Sourcing assets to enhance your return on investment faster. We ensure that sustainability measures are embedded into the supply chain to drive ESG goals balanced against cost and customer service objectives, while maximizing the latest digital tools and future technologies for genuine competitive advantage.

How we can help you

From supply chain strategy to embracing data and analytics, enabling transformation to operational excellence, we support supply chain activities end-to-end across all nodes and for all industry sectors.

Strategy and analytics

Build your optimal supply chain, sourcing, and manufacturing strategy, with the right supporting operating model, harnessing insightful data and analytics for decisions.

Planning

Refine demand, supply, and inventory planning, and orchestrate cross-functional collaboration to drive operational and financial efficiency and effectiveness.

Execution

Streamline source-to-contract and quote-to-cash pathways, improve manufacturing strategies, increase end-to-end visibility across the entire supply chain ecosystem, and reduce third-party risk.

Logistics and distribution

Refine your logistics strategy and design, transportation, and distribution management, and optimize inventory management, last mile, and return delivery networks.

People and HR

People are the real numbers behind enterprise performance.

Every market leader understands that talent can unlock competitive advantage. But workforces and workplaces are changing, and so are the relationships between employers and employees. You may need to invest in different skills and develop new capabilities to stay ahead in your market. It might be time to inject evidence-based talent management into the business planning process. KPMG teams can help you get the right people – doing the right things – to help drive your business forward. Even in a digital world, human beings are still your most important investment, your greatest asset and the secret sauce in your brand.

KPMG’s People and HR practice supports the full agenda of the CHRO. We help strengthen the performance of the people function by focusing on the questions global leaders tell us are their priority:

Where does the HR operating model need to evolve to meet future business demands?
What role can HR play in designing the future organization, and the job architectures that sit within it?
What skills and capabilities are required for the future, and how to best access them?
How can organizations establish a talent marketplace, where tasks are matched with skills, rather than individuals to roles?
Where can learning offers be digitally-enabled and personalized to individual needs, enhancing the employee experience?
How to turn people data into actionable insights to drive long-term business growth?
How to manage transformations effectively across the enterprise, placing employees at the centre of the change?
How can HR support ESG commitments, and create a safe and supportive culture across the organization?

Data, AI & emerging technologies

KPMG Lighthouse brings together team of KPMG professionals around the world who are dedicated to helping businesses enhance value from data, AI and all of today’s revolutionary new technologies. From ideation and design through to build and run, KPMG professionals help you navigate key technical decisions and launch informed initiatives – ultimately positioning you to solve complex business challenges and create real value through cutting-edge transformation.KPMG specialists provide leading expertise and industry best practices in data use, AI and advanced analytics, automation, enterprise data platforms and software development to help achieve outcomes that can meet your unique business objectives. We embed data, AI and emerging technologies with a business-first approach and available capabilities are highly regarded by leading global market analysts.

How KPMG can help you

KPMG professionals aim to help you transform your business by unlocking value and addressing costs, risks and growth strategies. By combining data, Al and emerging digital technologies with the guidance of a global organization of specialists, the teams strive to enhance business performance and create market differentiation in today’s hypercompetitive environment. Simply put, we’re here to make a difference.

Data

Data is at the core of efficient business processes, timely marketplace insights and informed decision-making. KPMG firms’ data services are helping clients translate large, complex data landscapes into real, actionable insights. Data strategy and governance provide the foundations needed to generate and capitalize on analytics insights and smarter decision-making. KPMG firms’ industry-leading data capabilities include: data strategy and architecture, management and governance, engineering and integration, and analytics and visualization tools.

AI and advanced analytics

KPMG firms’ AI and advanced analytics services are designed to unlock significant business value from data. By designing, building and deploying analytical models and AI at scale organization-wide, teams can enable better and faster decisions, identify new opportunities for growth, help reduce operational costs and help to improve customer experiences. These capabilities include: forecasting and optimization, machine learning, natural-language processing, and machine vision models that analyze digital images, video and other visual inputs.

Automation

KPMG Lighthouse automation services provide a structured approach to building, integrating and scaling revolutionary automation capabilities. KPMG professionals utilize technology to help automate, streamline and improve manufacturing processes, as well as to modify existing technology or create new systems that require less human interaction. The expected result can be vastly improved speed and efficiency organization-wide, reduced friction in processes, lower operational costs and enhanced quality. These capabilities include low-code application development, RPA to automate repetitive tasks, and process mining.

Enterprise Data Platforms

KPMG firms’ Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) services are helping businesses build centralized repositories for key organizational data across an array of key functions and needs. Our experts are showing how to improve and get more value out of essential business functions such as marketing, business intelligence, analytics and other capabilities that all need to be optimized enterprise-wide. Our EDP delivery is underpinned by three key data services – platform architecture, integration and implementation

Software development

KPMG firms’ software-development services provide structured activities and processes to define, design, develop, deploy and support software for small to medium-sized proprietary applications. KPMG professionals’ expertise covers four main service areas to deliver modern digital capabilities that can drive value: cloud-native app development, software engineering and integration, software quality assurance, and emerging technology such as quantum computing, blockchain, generative AI and digital-twinning.

Customer brand and marketing advisory

Digital disruption and rising customer expectations are creating unforgiving markets where loyalty is hard won and easily lost. If you can’t deliver what your customers want, when and where they want it, they will go to someone who can. But there is no point in creating a breakthrough customer experience if the new business model runs at a loss. KPMG teams offer a suite of services that can help you achieve profitable, sustainable growth through customer-centric thinking. This is all about getting close to your customers and staying there.

How we help you do that:

Customer Experience & Value Management
Customer Profitability
Customer Strategy
Marketing
Omnichannel
Product Lifecycle Management
Sales & Service

Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

The complexity of risks has reached unprecedented levels in a landscape marked by technological shifts, cyber threats, evolving customer expectations and growing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns. At the same time, intensified regulatory scrutiny adds pressure for unwavering compliance. Effectively navigating this intricate environment demands a comprehensive governance, risk, and compliance strategy underpinned by robust internal audits and controls. This framework requires steadfast, independent assurance to ensure the effective management of these risks.

How we can help

At KPMG, we empower you to bolster governance, compliance and internal audit capabilities. Our professionals provide the independent assurance needed to confidently manage risks and opportunities, fostering stakeholder trust in your journey forward.

KPMG internal audit and ERM professionals blend risk expertise, sector insights, and advanced digital tools. This fusion enables extensive risk assurance spanning the wider professional spectrum. Tailoring strategies to your needs, we can help optimize risk management, fortify internal audits, and provide actionable risk insights. Our focus on impartiality helps ensure you receive unbiased assurance, instilling the confidence that comes with well-managed risks to fortify unwavering stakeholder trust.

KPMG professionals identify financial misreporting and reset the compliance baseline underpinning contractual relationships with stakeholders, resulting in significant return on investment. At the end of a successful project, our client gets a cash payment. Our comprehensive service covers various domains such as: Distribution Reviews, Intellectual Property Advisory, Royalty and License Reviews, Software Asset Management, Software License Compliance and Supplier Reviews.

Contract Compliance

KPMG professionals provide real-time independent feedback on the health of major construction projects so that key decisions around cost, time and quality are made by project owners on a considered basis not by project managers on a reactionary basis. Our service provides a view on governance (methodology, policies, processes, procedures), risk, controls, compliance and independent monitoring of major projects.

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

KPMG firms can create sustainable ERM systems designed to drive profitability and competitiveness. Through predictive insights, KPMG professionals help clients enhance business value and performance by effectively responding to risks. Our industry-specific ERM capabilities apply across financial and non-financial sectors and include enterprise risk assessments, evaluation of current risk management practices, development of a practical road map to achieve desired end-state, knowledge transfer and training.

Internal Audit Strategic Sourcing

KPMG firms provide internal audit outsourcing services that guide organizations in risk management, controls, compliance and profitability. Our co-sourcing services offer flexible access to specialized skills and global resources. Our Sarbanes-Oxley Act Services (SOAS) includes readiness, documentation and sustainability assessments for effective SOX 404 compliance.

Major Project Advisory

Regulatory Compliance

We leverage industry knowledge and regulatory capabilities to assist regulators, boards and management in evaluating an organization’s compliance with applicable rules and regulations. Global regulations may be similar and can be interdependent; KPMG professionals can help ensure compliance with established and changing regulations.

Climate Change and Sustainability

KPMG firms support you in building a business that is sustainable in the long term. We offer a range of services that evaluate environmental and social performance, climate-related financial risks, carbon footprints and greenhouse gas inventories. Additionally, our advisory services support renewable energy, human rights, sustainable finance, impact measurement and sustainable supply chains.

Technology Consulting

Business-led, digitally enabled, data-driven transformation.

Organizations are navigating transformation and growth while facing unprecedented global challenges at an accelerating pace with increasing complexity compounded by knock-on effects. The technology landscape is rapidly evolving, making successful transformation complex. There is a myriad of apps, SaaS and on-premise capabilities, AI capabilities and new technology advances emerging daily. Meanwhile, customers and stakeholders are demanding optimal digital experiences, while cyber security threats are soaring and regulations are changing.

To succeed, organizations need a powerful digital transformation strategy to support their journey. Key to this should be seamlessly integrated technology that delivers insights and resilience – resulting in a true competitive advantage.

This is where KPMG firms’ technology consulting practice, with 20,000+ global technology experts and hundreds of products, solutions and accelerators, can make the difference. With our digital, functional, and industry expertise, coupled with our innovation, and people-centric focus, we help organizations in every sector capture more value, improve business performance, and increase enterprise flexibility and agility with business-led, insight-driven, digital transformations. We embrace the cloud, deliver cutting-edge data and analytics, and innovate with automation, artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and other advances. At every step, we help to mitigate cyber security and privacy risks to help organizations build trust and thrive.

Our technology alliances are central to our success, including Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, ServiceNow, Workday, Coupa, Google, and IBM-Red Hat. We are recognized by top analyst firms for the value we deliver to our clients globally.

How we can help you

KPMG professionals can help you set the vision for the future based your organizational goals, execute digital transformation and deliver managed services. KPMG firms’ technology consulting practices have extensive experience in key technology capability areas and a global delivery network to support your digital transformation.

We offer leading products, solutions, and accelerators to jump start your transformation and help get the best out of the latest technology. Our portfolio is constantly evolving as KPMG makes significant investments in innovation to keep pace with technology advancements and meet our clients’ growing needs.

We offer a broad set of technology services across platforms, cyber, data, AI and emerging technology, cloud, and risk so we can help deliver results that matter. Our alliance partnerships allow us to help solve your most pressing technology-based challenges and offer broad solutions and services via expanded product offerings and increased capabilities.

1. Technology strategy, platforms and architecture

The foundation of a successful digital transformation is the right technology architecture and strategy. Business goals should align precisely with software development and technological innovation. To achieve this, our experts help you frame your strategic goals and define the ideal future state. We develop, plan, implement and evolve the right transformation initiatives, ranging from business IT to cloud migration, process automation, Agile, DevOps, APIs, low code, product management, and more.

2. Cyber and digital security

With threat actors rising in the digital economy and targeting organizations in unexpected ways, a robust cyber security strategy is vital. Cybersecurity is a key driver of growth and resilience, as well as employee, customer, and stakeholder trust and should be the ‘golden thread’ that runs through every business. We can help you across cyber strategy and governance, security transformation, privacy, cyber defense and response, so you can operate with confidence in a digital world.

3. Data, AI, and emerging technology

KPMG Lighthouse (assisting clients with AI, data & analytics, and emerging technology) is helping businesses gain the most from every step of digital transformation. KPMG firms can deliver full-scale transformation or target specific challenges – whether it be increasing customer engagement, or building complex technology ecosystems, to accelerate outcomes. From advanced analytics, AI and machine learning solutions to the cutting edge operating models, UX design and infrastructures that power them, we’re equipped with the right people, tools and strategic alliances to help you build a true, modern, data-driven enterprise.

4. Cloud

Today’s cloud capabilities increasingly deliver on-demand, hyper-scale computing services. Yet, as organizations pursue these benefits, simply adopting the software will not generate real value. Our experts in cloud transformation resolve this with our cloud transformation services framework, coupled with our leading cloud-platform alliances, to help with cloud strategy and architecture, optimization, migration, protection and governance.

5. Tech risk

KPMG takes a strategic approach to understanding and balancing technology risks — whether in areas of technology governance, risk and compliance, risk quantification or internal audit — to help drive responsible growth, confident decision-making, bolder innovation and sustainable advances in performance and efficiency.

Our approach

KPMG firms work alongside you to transform your business. We focus on each organization’s unique needs – harnessing the latest technology and our functional and sector expertise help deliver real results. We help to maximize the value of digital transformation journeys and deliver real business outcomes. We bring to every engagement a proven combination of digital experience and our leading technology alliances. Importantly, we are passionate about building trusted client relationships that last. Working with KPMG and modern technologies brings your business the digital skills and timely insights that are vital for efficiency, driving growth, and positioning you to compete in the customer-centric digital economy.

Cyber Security Services

A well-protected business has the potential to be confident and the most innovative. The smartest businesses don’t just manage cyber risk, they use it as a source of growth and market edge. Technology makes many things possible, but possible doesn’t always mean safe. As cyber threats grow in volume and sophistication and technology becomes essential for meeting the needs of your customers, employees, suppliers and society, your cyber security must build resilience and trust.

KPMG helps you create a resilient and trusted digital world — even in the face of evolving threats. That’s because we bring a combination of technological expertise, deep business knowledge, and creative professionals who are passionate about protecting and building your business. Together, let’s create a trusted digital world, so you can push the limits of what’s possible.

How we can help you

KPMG member firms have expertise across the continuum — from the boardroom to the data center. In addition to assessing your cyber security and aligning it to your business priorities, we help you develop advanced solutions, implement them, monitor ongoing risks and help you respond effectively to cyber incidents. So no matter where you are on the cyber security journey, KPMG can help you reach the destination.

Strategy and governance
Turn risk to competitive advantage.
Security transformation
Accelerate your initiatives in an agile world.
Cyber defense
Confidently seize opportunities.
Cyber response
Operate with confidence in a digital world.

Innovative approach

As a leading provider and implementer of cyber security, KPMG knows how to apply leading security practices — and also build new ones that are fit for purpose. Our innovative approach to cyber security also includes the ways we deliver our services, so no matter how you engage with us, you can expect to work with extraordinary people who understand your business and your technology.

KPMG managed services

Free up your teams for strategic initiatives by accessing our dedicated resources and technology for day-to-day security operations.

KPMG Powered Enterprise | Cyber

Significantly accelerate the delivery of security transformation programs such as identity and access management and security operations, thanks to our preconfigured cloud technologies, processes and organizational designs, which we then tailor to your unique business.

KPMG digital products and service

Leverage our deep technical expertise through subscription-based services, thanks to our technology-based delivery capabilities.

Cloud security

Cloud security and resilience strategies to help you approach cloud transformation, transition between hybrid cloud models, and the management of cloud security providers.

Creating a trusted digital world together

Whether you’re entering a new market, launching products and services, or interacting with customers in a new way, KPMG can help you anticipate tomorrow, move faster and get an edge with technology that is secure and trusted. That’s because we can bring an uncommon combination of technological expertise, deep business knowledge, and creative professionals who are passionate about helping you protect and build your business.

Forensic

Threats to organizational integrity are increasing, whether from within the organization, third-parties or beyond. Fraud, corporate crime, commercial disputes, litigation, data security and regulatory requirements can all impact organizational finances, integrity and reputation. There is also the increasing sophistication of organized crime and terrorism, as well as new challenges from technology, cross-border disputes, emerging markets, complex supply chains and intellectual property theft. Organizations that proactively monitor and respond to these risks can effectively mitigate threats, helping ensure trust and enhance resilience.

How we can help

KPMG forensic professionals extend across a multitude of dimensions, from bolstering controls and helping ensure compliance to conducting meticulous investigations and developing integrated solutions. Anchored in these efforts is the cultivation of trust—an indispensable foundation for sustainable success.

KPMG firms’ professionals encompass a diverse range of skills, including forensic accountants, investigators, data scientists, compliance practitioners, and cyber response experts. From proactive prevention to meticulous detection and resolute response, we focus not just on mitigating risks, but also shielding you from reputational and financial impacts.

Dispute advisory, Economics and Regulatory

KPMG professionals can provide expert testimony and assist in resolving complex cross-border disputes, whether representing the claimant, respondent, or by serving as an impartial arbitrator. We also offer advisory services tailored to regulated sectors and employ data-driven analysis to help strengthen strategies in disputes, regulatory negotiations and government dialogues.

Ethics and Compliance

KPMG professionals can assess, design and enhance risk and compliance programs to mitigate vulnerabilities to fraud, corruption, misconduct and a myriad of third-party risks. We also assist in establishing and enhancing proactive analytics to prevent and detect such risks with the aim towards meeting governance and regulatory compliance. Our corporate intelligence team also provide a range of information gathering and intelligence analysis services to assist clients make better informed decisions on third-party risk.

Financial Crime

KPMG firms’ wide-ranging approach can help contextualize financial crime within clients' operations, leveraging KPMG's global risk expertise and employing a suite of advanced risk technology tools that incorporate AI, machine learning and data analytics. Our professionals can enhance enterprise-wide resilience, merging risk management with commercial advancement to help drive performance, efficiency and customer experience improvements while uncovering untapped opportunities.

Forensic Technology

KPMG firms strive to help organizations achieve among the highest levels of compliance and efficiency in managing records and information, developing repeatable business processes for responding to investigations, legal and regulatory requests and detecting fraud and misconduct through data analytics.

Investigations

KPMG professionals aid organizations affected by fraud, corruption, misconduct, cybercrime or financial crime in adeptly uncovering facts and managing the aftermath. Our support includes corporate intelligence, asset recovery, pursuing perpetrators and mitigating reputational and financial harm. Our skilled forensic experts, versed in cross-border and sector-specific knowledge, conduct precise investigations, analyzing intricate financial data to offer succinct reports for informed assessment and responsive action.

Cloud transformation

Cloud transformation is essential to meet today’s business needs, customer demands, ESG agendas, and other challenges. Cloud capabilities enable on-demand scalability, seamless connectivity, and the potential to leverage fast-evolving automation, analytics, and AI.

Whether you are a mature cloud user or early in your journey, you need the right strategy, skill sets, investment, and training to be successful. It can be challenging to know the best path toward change, and how to gain the most from your cloud investment. KPMG professionals are here to support your transformation at every step.

How we can help you

With a combination of cloud transformation and industry expertise, KPMG professionals can help build your cloud strategy and architecture, undertake app and data modernization, and increase security and resilience – all while helping you to gain return on your investment.

Cloud strategy

Build a cloud strategy aligned to your business needs to help deliver the benefits you expect. KPMG professionals help with cloud infrastructure assessment, application portfolio analysis, data architecture, risk and regulatory requirements, and more. They can also enable cost visibility and optimization for a sustainable approach.

Cloud platform architecture

Strive to ensure your cloud-based applications and services are scalable, cost-effective, and secure. KPMG professionals help with complexities such as legacy applications, data silos, and hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments.

Cloud app and data modernization

Modernize your data and your applications to help improve the user experience, enable more sophisticated analytics and AI, enhance security, and reduce costs. KPMG professionals help to leverage your cloud technologies and services for the best in application performance, data management, storage, processing, and analytics.

Cloud security and business resilience

Integrate industry leading capabilities for Cloud DevSecOps (Development, Security, and Operations) while strengthening cyber capabilities, data protection, and compliance. KPMG professionals help you establish cloud resilience and business continuity, and enhance cloud license management.

Our approach

As you transform to the cloud, KPMG professionals work with you to help build the right strategy, architecture, and capabilities. They strive to build in resilience, regulatory compliance, and security, while positioning you to leverage the latest in cloud capabilities, data and AI. Drawing on deep industry knowledge, KPMG professionals help ensure that your cloud strategy and processes are optimized to the specific needs of your sector. That way, your transformation has the greatest opportunity to generate outstanding results and value.

Digital Solutions By Capability

KPMG Powered Enterprise

Technology can transform the way business is done, from strategy through to delivery. Using new and emerging technologies you can maintain competitive advantage and succeed in your digital transformation journey. Conversely, outdated and disparate technology, processes, and service models, can hold you back and make it a struggle to achieve your strategic objectives.

You need the right approach, to transform your business and drive greater value.

Companies that do transform successfully ask the hard questions:

Are our business functions manual, slow and siloed?
Is our dysfunctional technology driving the wrong behavior?
Is our current technology a barrier?
Is outdated technology causing profit leaks?
Can we use data-driven insights to drive value?
Why have our previous transformation efforts failed?

Powered Enterprise helps answer such questions and consists of a set of solutions that help clients transform their business functions. Drawing on our deep functional expertise, we’ve built a wide-ranging set of solutions covering all aspects of function’s operating model. It’s designed to help businesses get to ‘best practice’ quickly and securely, so that they can drive sustainable change and avoid a lot of the pitfalls that can come with traditional approaches to digital transformation.

Build better outcomes

Powered Enterprise includes KPMG’s Target Operating Model, Powered Technology and Powered Evolution. Together they can make your business more responsive, resilient, and competitive—and bring the future within reach, today.

The Target Operating Model helps you establish the design for what your function should look like across processes, people, the service delivery model, technology, performance insights and data, and governance. Through Powered Technology, we work with the world’s leading SaaS companies, to implement pre-built tools and methods that reflect leading practice and incorporate AI and advanced automation to simplify functional transformation.

Powered Evolution is how we continue to support our clients after the initial transformation program is complete. An important characteristic of the cloud or subscription technology is that it’s constantly changing. When new features are delivered by the vendor, or there are changes to an organization, we help to make those changes so that their operating model is up to date.

KPMG Target Operating Model

Knowing how your business works can be critical to success

Our knowledge of leading practice is built-in to a comprehensive design framework, so you can shape your transformation across every layer of your business.

KPMG Powered Technology

Get the best out of technology

Achieve greater value, faster and reduce risk. We’ll help you implement pre-built tools and methods that reflect leading practice and incorporate AI and advanced automation to simplify your functional transformation.

KPMG Powered Evolution

We’re on your side all the way

We provide managed services to drive consistent improvement that’s based on the latest technological innovations, helping give you a clear market advantage.

Powered solutions to support functional transformation

By using the power of leading practice and pre-built digital assets, KPMG Powered Enterprise offers tailored solutions, for better outcomes, across every business function, key industries and major technology platforms.

KPMG Powered Execution Suite

Take a closer look at the KPMG Powered Execution Suite (PES). Using the Powered Execution Suite on a Powered Enterprise functional transformation project creates a different working experience for all stakeholders. For many organizations, project delivery can be a very complex challenge, exacerbated by barriers to collaboration including communication over e-mail, recording important project information on static files, version control issues, multiple systems to store project data, and the extra labor of associated maintenance.

PES seeks to significantly improve the project delivery experience through enhanced communication. Instead of working alone offline on static files, you can collaborate directly with team members on project content held in the cloud. Instead of tracking approvals over e-mail, you can experience the reliability of consistent processes supported by workflow and digital sign-off. And instead of the high overhead effort of manual reconciliation, you can enjoy the benefits of real-time updates and consolidated reporting.

In the past, your teams may have been burdened by barriers to collaboration and information sharing. With PES, your project can find new efficiencies and an enhanced collaborative working experience that reduces risk and leads to a more successful outcome.

What is the KPMG Powered Execution Suite?

Powered Execution Suite (PES) is an integrated, pre-configured set of methods supported by tools that KPMG engagement teams use to better manage the delivery of a Powered Enterprise business transformation alongside client team members.

The cloud-based, pre-configured, integrated suite of tools is designed to accelerate program setup and execution, foster transparency, and reduce risk in your Powered Enterprise business function transformation engagement.

What's included?

PES contains the overarching Powered method framework (an organized approach to delivering a Powered Enterprise solution) and a collection of pre-defined templates, delivery assets, and workflows that reflect what is needed for a particular function, cloud platform, and target operating model.

Conclusion

The Powered Execution Suite is focused on making your Powered Enterprise functional transformation a success. Managing change is one of the biggest challenges that organizations face on their way to becoming more agile and customer-focused. For most organizations, functional change is complex and choosing a new technology platform is only part of the effort. Leading teams through change is as important as the business processes and technical solution.

PES is designed to support our joint teams to better manage the implementation, taking into account the comprehensive target operating model and relevant technology platform.