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Transformations Team

Master change. Deliver lasting advantage.

The Transformations team is an integrated, multidisciplinary group of professionals spanning Tax, Legal, Finance, IT, Operations and HR and helping you manoeuvre complex transformations from design to delivery.

Change is constant — technological shifts, evolving customer expectations and shifting priorities across markets. For experienced leaders, the question isn’t whether change will come, but how to steer it.

Choose to move with change rather than react to it. Partner with people who understand its patterns, its friction and its potential — practitioners who translate disruption into strategy, governance, capability and tangible delivery. We help you reframe perspectives, unlock strategic opportunities and embed the capabilities that make change sustainable: clearer choices, faster decisions and outcomes that scale.

Together we’ll turn change into momentum — to develop, deploy and deliver what is required to thrive — aligning people, processes and technology so that renewed energy improves performance and enables growth. Not a one‑off, but a defined path with purpose and repeatable outcomes.

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How we can help you

Structure Transformations

We support clients by simplifying and realigning group structures through legal‑entity restructuring, enterprise‑model simplification and branchification.

What is Legal Entity Rationalisation (LER)?

Most companies have a legal‑entity set‑up that has grown more complex and costly over the years through acquisitions and divestments that are not aligned with their current strategic direction.

LER is the elimination of one or more entities from a group, creating an optimal structure to achieve business goals or remove dormant legacy companies.

According to Deloitte's 2024 Chief Legal Officer (CLO) Strategy report, legal-entity rationalisation has been identified as the highest-ranked¹ enterprise-wide transformation initiative overseen by the CLO.

¹For the US, Europe and Canada, it was highest-ranked; in Australia it ranked second.

We help our clients with legal‑entity transformations, ranging from simple housekeeping to highly complex restructurings — often starting with quick wins such as eliminating dormant companies in batches to achieve economies of scale, limit the impact on internal resources, upskill in‑house teams and embed a culture of simplification for subsequent waves.

Where appropriate, projects can instead begin with more material moves, such as collapsing tower structures or transferring subsidiaries to better align the group with strategic objectives and tax considerations.

Key drivers and benefits of LER

Finance Transformations

We support clients by redesigning finance and tax set-ups, restructuring treasury, increasing transparency and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Drivers of Finance Transformations

Evolving Regulatory Requirements: As tax regulations continue to change, companies need to adapt their tax functions to ensure compliance and mitigate risks associated with non-compliance.
Tax Digitalisation: The shift towards digital solutions in tax processes requires transformation of traditional tax functions to leverage technology for enhanced accuracy, efficiency and data accessibility.
Need for Data-Driven Tax: There is an increasing demand for tax functions to adopt a data-driven approach, utilizing analytics and insights to inform decision-making and improve overall tax strategy.
Future State Vision for the Tax Function: Establishing a clear vision for a future state Target Operating Model for the tax function drives the need for transformation across all dimensions, including governance, processes, technology, and performance measurement.
Performance Measurement: The growing emphasis on measuring the performance of tax functions encourages companies to implement frameworks that support continuous improvement and accountability.
Resource Optimisation: As organisations seek to maximise resources, there is a drive to ensure the tax function operates effectively, balancing compliance with strategic value creation.

How we can help

The Transformations team helps tax and finance directors and their teams to set up a practical, executable roadmap for achieving the desired future state of the tax and finance function as envisaged in the target operating model.
Our methodology is business‑value driven. We start by assessing importance and urgency and estimating the effort for each initiative, using input from key stakeholders in your organisation and challenging that with Deloitte expert opinion.
Our way of working is Agile‑based, with a phased approach according to priorities; the journey is driven by a Transformation Management Office (TMO) responsible for overall planning, communication and the management of synergies, dependencies and risks.
We can augment your team with any resources required both for process roles (in TMO), and for tax and finance specialist roles (e.g. Strategy, Processes, Technology, Sourcing).

People Transformations

We support with managing workforce transformations, covering works councils, regulatory compliance and pension and social security matters.

People Transformations is pivotal in guiding companies through significant changes, such as organisational restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, or spin-offs. Our approach ensures that employee transitions are managed effectively, ensuring continuity of operations and compliance.

Credentials

Our credentials

Find out how we helped our clients from concept to implementation.

Workforce Transformations Project

We supported the CHRO of a multinational consumer-goods company to lead the successful transfer of approximately 70 employees during a complex, time-bound business carve-out process. We provided integrated, specialist expertise across employment law, immigration, tax, pensions and payroll, translating technical complexity into clear options and recommendations. Our work included sponsor licence applications, withholding tax treatment and pension transfer mechanics. Throughout, we informed and equipped the CHRO and senior stakeholders to make timely decisions, and implemented the agreed solutions in close coordination with client HR, payroll and finance teams to maintain momentum and meet critical carve-out milestones.

Deloitte facilitated employee and stakeholder engagement through town halls and Q&A sessions, and liaised with the Dutch works council and regulators to secure guidance and necessary consents.

As a result of the collaborative approach, all employees transferred successfully with no interruption to payroll or pension accruals, and immigration continuity was maintained. By absorbing niche technical tasks, presenting practical choices and thinking ahead to create concrete actions, we enabled the client to retain control and oversight while ensuring the demerger proceeded as planned without labour-related delay.

Functions involved: Tax, Legal, Operations, HR, PMO

Structure Transformations Project

We supported the CEO, CFO and board to restructure a Dutch-headquartered house, garden and leisure retailer into separate functional pillars, aligning the organisation with a deconsolidated operating model and compliance standards while driving efficiencies and tax benefits. Over a five-month period, the client approved a detailed micro-steps plan that we produced, and retained control of priorities and sign-offs. We mobilised an international network of tax and legal specialists (including Deloitte teams from 15 jurisdictions and the client’s existing advisers) and translated complex technical issues into clear options so the executive team could decide with confidence. Our demand management approach scaled specialist resource as required and ensured consistent weekly Friday updates kept stakeholders aligned.

On execution the client instructed and authorised 45 share transfers across 16 countries, the incorporation of eight holding companies and the demerger of the principal Dutch entity. We prepared and coordinated the execution of more than 700 legal documents, coordinated filings and secured regulatory approvals in at least seven jurisdictions, and managed minority-shareholder mechanics. Throughout, we worked closely with client HR, tax, finance and legal leads to address niche issues — from transfer pricing and withholding tax treatment to operational considerations — and implemented the agreed changes in tight sequence to avoid disruption.

The result was a streamlined pillar structure, improved business control and demonstrable tax efficiency gains, delivered in five months compared with a typical 18‑month timetable. By absorbing technical complexity and presenting practical choices, Deloitte enabled the leadership team to retain control and deliver a high stakes transformation at pace.

Functions involved: Tax, Transfer Pricing, Finance, Legal, PMO

Find out how our team makes an impact

Transformations team members Joram de Haan and Arlette Verdonk work side by side with their clients. ‘We do not provide advice from the sideline but work closely together with the client to fully understand the intricacies of the organisation.’

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