South West Matters
A forum to highlight and discuss matters of interest to the South West business community.
ESG: A new necessity for the M&A agenda
By Martyn Gregory & Phil Lane
Martyn Gregory and Phil Lane, corporate finance advisory partners in Deloitte’s South & Wales M&A team, highlight the increasingly important role ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) is playing in the M&A agenda for corporates and private equity.
Change for good – embracing business transformation
By Martyn Gregory
Martyn Gregory, senior partner at Deloitte’s South West & Wales practice, looks back at the past 15 months, a period of change and transformation, as well as uncertainty for many businesses across the South West.
Building relationships to respond, recover and thrive
By Martyn Gregory and Phil Lane
Martyn Gregory and Phil Lane, who lead Deloitte's corporate finance advisory team in the South and Wales, consider how relationships are at the heart of businesses building back better and look back at some of their recent deal activity.
Why strategy drives success for owner managed businesses
By Phil Lane
Phil Lane, financial advisory and consumer partner at Deloitte, looks at owner managed businesses and why a clear strategy is essential to success.
#ChooseToChallenge the importance of role models
By Sarah Kruger
Sarah Kruger, director and TechWorks lead at Deloitte, talks about her experiences of working in a male dominated environment and how her thinking on role models has changed through the course of her career.
#ChooseToChallenge social mobility
By Tess Williams
Tess Williams, a partner in our South West & Wales tax practice, talks about her career path and explains why social mobility and opportunities for all are important to her.
#ChooseToChallenge gendered Zoom behaviour
By Natalie Hearn
This International Women’s Day, Natalie Hearn challenges what she considers to be gendered behaviours, especially those encountered on Zoom calls.
#ChooseToChallenge the idea that finance is male dominated
By Philippa Rowe
Philippa Rowe, a senior manager at Deloitte, challenges the notion that finance is a male dominated world.
Women are some of the most resilient creatures
By Rebecca Savvides
Rebecca Savvides from Deloitte’s TechWorks team gives a personal account of resilience.
#ChooseToChallenge traditional working arrangements
By Martyn Gregory
To mark International Women’s Day, Martyn Gregory, senior partner for South West & Wales region at Deloitte, challenges what people consider to be traditional working arrangements and discusses how these are evolving.