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PwC Australia invests in specialist deals expertise with acquisition of Advancy Australia. Thursday, 1 October 2026 PwC Australia is continuing to invest in the experienced capabilities that clients need to navigate a rapidly changing business environment, announcing today the acquisition of Advancy Australia, the specialist value creation and commercial due diligence firm. Completed on September 30, the acquisition will see Advancy Australia founders Carl Brostrom and David Thevenon join the PwC Australia partnership, along with their team. The move strengthens PwC Australia's value creation and commercial due diligence capabilities, complementing its existing deals, tax and transaction advisory services. Responding to an increasingly complex and AI-enabled market, the acquisition reflects PwC's global focus on building differentiated expertise that helps clients identify growth opportunities, execute their transformation and then work with them on operations to create long-term value. For the deals business, this means bringing together specialist capabilities from across the firm to provide clients with greater value and more connected support throughout the deals and transformation lifecycle. "The nature of advisory is changing. Clients are looking for experienced professionals and deeper sector expertise, more integrated support and partners who can help them move from strategic decisions to outcomes. Advancy Australia strengthens our ability to support clients across the investment and deals lifecycle, combining specialist commercial due diligence and value creation expertise with PwC's broader deals, industry and transformation capabilities." Ro Antao,Advisory Leader, PwC Australia PwC Australia has one of the country's leading full-service deals advisory businesses, trusted by corporate and private equity clients to help shape, execute and realise value from their most important strategic decisions. In FY26, the business delivered high double-digit growth, underscoring the strength of the platform and the confidence clients place in PwC to help them navigate complexity, volatility and chang PwC Australia's Deals Leader, Kushal Chadha, said: "Clients are making more complex deal decisions and are looking for sharper commercial insight and more integrated support before, during and after transactions. They're also looking for more than just advice, they want a connected journey across the transaction lifecycle. We're pleased to welcome Carl, David and their team to PwC to help us enhance that support, and our focus is on a smooth transition for our clients and our people." Advancy Australia co-founder Carl Brostrom said: "Since 2013, we have established a strong reputation for advising leading private equity investors and corporate clients in Consumer, Healthcare and Industrials. PwC's scale, breadth of capabilities and deep industry expertise will enable us to offer our clients greater support across the full strategy and transaction lifecycle." Advancy Australia co-founder David Thevenon said: "We are thrilled to be joining PwC Australia. The combination brings together two highly complementary teams and creates an exciting opportunity for our clients and our people. It will enable our amazing team of people to build their career in the pre-eminent professional services firm." Advancy Australia is an independent partner of the Advancy network. The acquisition is part of PwC Australia's broader investment in the future of advisory, which aims to build the specialist expertise, industry capability and integrated delivery models that clients increasingly require as they navigate growth, transformation and reinvention. It also reflects a broader focus on bringing together complementary capabilities across the firm, enabling clients to access deeper expertise through a more connected advisory experience. As organisations respond to emerging technologies, evolving business models and increasing market complexity, PwC continues to invest in the capabilities that help clients move from strategy to execution and sustained value creation. Last month, the firm welcomed Sydney-based financial services transactions expert Dominic Leary as a new partner, bringing the Deals partnership to 59 as it continues to grow across the Asia-Pacific region. About PwC. We're a network of firms in 152 countries with almost 328,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services. Find out more and tell us what matters to you by visiting us at www.pwc.com. PwC refers to the PwC network and/or one or more of its member firms, each of which is a separate legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further details. Contact us. Lucy Hinton Director, Media Relations, PwC Australia Jesse McCarthy-Price Manager, Media Relations, PwC Australia

PwC and Auditchain Labs announce cooperation for regulatory disclosure automation. Auditchain Labs - September 29, 2026 The cooperation combines PwC's regulatory, legal and capital markets expertise with Pacioli.ai - Auditchain's agentic disclosure automation and external validation protocol - to deliver supervisory-grade compliance, beginning with MiCAR white paper disclosure in Europe. Frankfurt am Main / Zug, 29 September 2026 - PwC and Auditchain Labs AG ("Auditchain") today announced a cooperation to bring agentic regulatory disclosure automation and external validation to issuers of crypto-assets and capital market participants worldwide, combining PwC's regulatory, legal and advisory expertise with Pacioli.ai - Auditchain's agentic AI disclosure and validation protocol. PwC and Auditchain will offer integrated solutions helping organisations prepare, validate and file regulatory disclosures more efficiently and auditably. Pacioli.ai automates preparation of financial and non-financial disclosure models and exports them in structured formats - including the XBRL and iXBRL required by over 140 regulators in 65 jurisdictions - while the Pacioli.ai validator network provides independent, corroborated external validation. PwC brings independent legal and advisory expertise to ensure the solutions meet supervisory standards. "As capital markets migrate onchain, regulatory disclosure must enter a new era," said Dr. Hagen Weiss, Digital Assets Legal Leader at PwC. "Issuers must deliver disclosures that are compliant, computable, traceable and auditable. Whether under MiCAR in Europe or the emerging GENIUS and CLARITY Acts in the United States, the trajectory is clear - and this cooperation puts PwC and Auditchain at the forefront." START: MiCAR White Paper Disclosure Automation. The first deployment is START - Submission, Traceability, Automation, Reporting & Transparency - a coordinated offering addressing obligations under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). With the MiCAR Implementing Technical Standards now published, issuers of e-money tokens (EMTs), asset-referenced tokens (ARTs) and other crypto-assets face rigorous requirements for white paper preparation, validation and filing in iXBRL. Powered by Pacioli.ai, START gives each client a dedicated, secure environment for MiCAR compliance, enabling collaboration between internal teams and external advisers with full traceability, version control and role-based access: * Template-driven composition workflows aligned with MiCAR ITS for EMTs, ARTs and other crypto-assets * Internal and external validation against the full MiCAR ITS, flagging gaps and non-compliant content * Export to iXBRL for direct regulatory filing, plus .xls, .pdf and .html for internal review and publication * Granular user management and governance controls, including built-in End User Agreement workflows External validation. START includes PwC's role as external validator, providing independent regulatory review alongside the platform's automated checks. Every validation output, version change and stakeholder approval is logged and time-stamped, generating an evidence pack that cryptographically enforces who reviewed what, when and on what basis - an audit trail critical under supervisory scrutiny. "START is designed for defensibility by design," said Dr. Michael Huertas, Partner and Global & European Financial Services Legal Leader at PwC. "By embedding PwC's independent regulatory expertise alongside automated compliance validation, we give issuers a solution that compresses timelines while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy and traceability. As reporting requirements expand globally, the infrastructure scales across jurisdictions and schemes." Pacioli.ai. Pacioli.ai applies agentic AI to regulatory disclosure and records the results. Purpose-built agents read a filing against the rules that govern it, and no single model's output stands as the conclusion: independent agents constrained by standardized machine-readable taxonomies examine the same filing and must corroborate with one another before a validation is final. Each conclusion, the evidence behind it and the agents that reached it are written to a distributed ledger, producing a tamper-evident record that a supervisor, auditor or investor can verify for themselves. Validators stake collateral against their conclusions, so accuracy carries economic consequence rather than depending on manual oversight. "Onchain capital markets have attributes with no analogue in TradFi and require onchain disclosure frameworks, full stop," said Jason Meyers, Lead Architect at Auditchain Labs AG. "The governance features of Pacioli.ai allow delegation of legal, accounting and assurance functions at the protocol level to a network of experts. We are honored that PwC is joining our mission to institutionalize Pacioli.ai." Pacioli Explorer Pacioli.ai will also feature the Pacioli Explorer, a public application displaying the compliance status for issuers of crypto-assets and their service providers. Each project carries a color-coded badge - Green (compliant), Yellow (pending) or Red (deficient) - giving investors, exchanges and regulators at-a-glance transparency, and embeddable on websites and listing applications. The Explorer aims to become the global access point for regulatory disclosure. About PwC At PwC, its purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. Auditchain Labs AG is a network of firms in 149 countries with over 364,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory, tax and legal services. Find out more at http://pwc.com/. About Auditchain Labs AG Auditchain Labs AG is a provider of global standards based regulatory disclosure automation and validation infrastructure. Pacioli.ai enables disclosure infrastructure and instance development as well as internal and external validation. Pacioli.ai enables organisations to prepare financial and non-financial disclosure models and export them in any data format, including XBRL and iXBRL, as required under capital markets legislation. For more information, visit auditchain.com. Discord | X | Telegram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Reddit | YouTube Contacts PwC Dr. Michael Huertas Partner, Global & European Financial Services Legal Leader M: +49 1511 6155610 [email protected] Digital Assets Legal Leader M: +49 1511 5708446 Auditchain Labs AG. Lead Architect +1917 836 0608 Pacioli.ai is a product of Auditchain Labs AG, a company organised under the laws of Switzerland. Auditchain(R), Pacioli.ai(R) and all related logos and marks are the property of Auditchain Labs AG. The cooperation described in this release does not constitute a joint venture, partnership or agency relationship between the parties. PwC refers to the PwC network and/or one or more of its member firms, each of which is a separate legal entity. Platform outputs, including automated compliance validations, do not constitute assurance, legal advice, regulatory approval or a guarantee of acceptance by any competent authority.

BDO appoints new London tax partner. Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has further strengthened its partnership with the appointment of a new tax partner. Tommy Nguyen joins BDO in London as a tax partner where he will play a key role in expanding the wider private business tax offering to mid-market clients. Tommy has almost 20 years' experience in the profession, with expertise in advising hospitality and leisure sector businesses on capital allowance services. Tommy joins from PwC's Private Business Tax team and will be based in BDO's Baker Street headquarters. Louise Sayers, head of people, culture & purpose at BDO says: "Tommy's appointment will undoubtedly strengthen our partnership and the business tax services we are able to offer our clients. "His passion for developing high-performing teams, combined with his deep understanding of specialised tax support, makes him a valuable addition to the team and reinforces our continued investment in attracting top talent. It's a pleasure to welcome him to BDO."