When dealing with financial distress and the possibility of a restructuring or even insolvency, an added complication is often the need to consider significant, and likely complex, tax implications.

Alvarez & Marsal is in the unique position to offer a team of experienced restructuring tax professionals adept at working with companies, their lenders and other creditors, and all applicable stakeholders on the implications across all relevant taxes of restructurings, financing transactions, divestments and acquisitions.  

What Can A&M Restructuring Tax Services Offer?

As a dedicated, full-service partner, A&M Restructuring Tax Services can manage tax issues as they arise. To drive value, our professionals identify risks and efficiencies from transactions, cash repatriation and the preservation of tax attributes.

Our experienced restructuring and insolvency tax professionals work with debtors, creditors, creditor committees, potential purchasers, investors and vendors on behalf of distressed companies.

Throughout the restructuring or insolvency process, our professionals are accustomed to leading local and international teams, and liaising with other specialists and advisers, in order to deliver advice and transactions in a timely, pragmatic and value-added manner, working strategically to effectively resolve tax matters. Our team also works closely with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and has key representatives on the UK’s restructuring representative body’s tax committees.

• Debt Restructuring (Stressed and Distressed): Structuring; Reviewing availability of exemptions for debt releases; Reviewing legal documentation to ensure tax compliance and efficiencies.
• Corporate Restructuring: Legal entity rationalisation; Packaging non-core assets for carve-out/sale; Removing costs.
• Options Analysis/Contingency Planning: General advisory; Structuring; Analysing material tax attributes; Modelling outcomes; Cashflow management; Supply chain optimisation.
• Insolvency Transactions: General advisory; Structuring; Reviewing legal documentation.
• Insolvency Compliance: Ensuring tax attributes are supportable; Dealing with HMRC claims; Minimising risks; Seeking practical solutions with HMRC and clearances to allow closure; Completion of regulatory filings. 
• A full suite of Reward & Employment Tax Solutions 
• An experienced Indirect Tax team

What Are the Benefits of A&M’s Restructuring Tax Services?

With many years of experience helping companies navigate the restructuring process, our professionals can assist companies by delivering the following benefits:

• Straightforward communication: It’s our role to tackle the technicalities, and it’s management’s role to make critical business decisions. That is why our tax professionals are committed to translating complex tax analyses into direct, straight-forward advice to expedite management’s decision-making process.
• Execution: Deeply ingrained in the history of A&M as a restructuring firm is a bias towards action. Our team is prepared to execute from Day One.
• Preservation of tax value: Our team preserves the value of tax attributes during restructuring to be used to offset a company’s tax liability.
• Risk mitigation: In situations where directors face risk, our team works to both mitigate those risks and keep management abreast of the issues.

Why Use A&M’s Restructuring Tax Services?

Our experience proves that accurate planning for practical and executable transactions ensures that the legal transaction flows seamlessly into the accounting and tax reporting. Our experience and straightforward advice help companies navigate through the restructuring process.

A&M takes pride in presenting technical expertise commercially and with pragmatism, and applying our non-tax skills and deep experience to propel the transaction across the line.

A&M is one of the few consulting firms that has a dedicated tax practice for restructuring services. This unique expertise allows our team to leverage our tax knowledge to offer practical business advice and provide solutions for companies going through a restructuring process. 

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