Corporate Structure Simplification Consulting

The challenge of organizational disruption is not new, but it is changing. As financial complexity and innovation are accelerating, corporate simplification is one way organizations might respond.

What EY-Parthenon Corporate Structure Simplification services can do for you

Group structures can become increasingly complex through M&As, JVs and organic growth. This can lead to increased costs, as well as difficulties managing risk, simplifying operations, improving transparency and complying with changing regulations.

We can help you achieve the following benefits of group and corporate structure simplification:

Financial

  • Reduced compliance costs
  • Capital and cash efficiencies
  • Optimization of distribution streams and removal of dividend blocks
  • Rationalization of intercompany balances
  • A simpler group structure that maximizes the efficiency of your operating model
  • A structure that minimizes tax leakage on the repatriation of cash

Nonfinancial

  • Improved transparency and corporate governance
  • Greater control and risk management
  • Enhanced board and investor perception
  • Approaches to address the lack of “corporate memory” around unknown contingent and legacy liabilities
  • Reduced management time spent on nonoperating entities

Broad experience

We have experience supporting the complete spectrum of organizations, whether large multinational companies seeking to reduce their global entity footprint or a small domestic organization looking to remove a single entity from its structure for a specific purpose. Our corporate simplification team integrates restructuring, tax and financial consulting knowledge to help your organization assess, rationalize and simplify its legal entity structure across the key phases of corporate simplification:

Restructuring and turnaround strategy

When time is important, our experienced problem-solvers provide restructuring advice to move quickly from ideas to implementation. 


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