This announcement by HMRC on 16 May 2022 has caused a stir in the R&D tax market, and quite rightly so.

In a recent NACD BoardTalk blog post, Managing Director David Brown discusses four new trends that are impacting corporate boards. 

The volume of production shutdowns is slowing globally as of late, but the latest trend does not signify the end of further delays. Automotive inventory dropped in April after building in the prior month, but sales performance was better than projected.
In this issue, A&M analyzes issues critical to consumer adoption of electric vehicles (EV) as the selected topic for the May Industry Focus.

Article originally published on Global Banking & Finance Review, May 2022.

According to a UK government report, two in five businesses in Britain suffered cybersecurity attacks in the 12 months to March 2021, with an attached cost of £13,400 on average per data breach for medium and large companies.

The report suggests that the Q1’22 results for most of the banks in the UAE highlighted an increase in profitability, despite lower non-interest income.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) appointed Dr. Chan Yoo as a Managing Director in its Seoul, South Korea, office. Dr. Yoo’s hire links his extensive transformation experience with Asian manufacturing corporations across multiple industries to A&M’s strategic growth plans in support of the market’s needs.

Global Transaction Advisory Group Managing Director and Global Practice  Leader, Paul Aversano, was quoted in a recent article in Axios, “Deconstructing the Dissidents.”

Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (“A&M”) today announces the findings of its latest analysis and predictor of shareholder activism in Europe in 2022, the “A&M Activist Alert”, or “AAA”.

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), has appointed Alfonso A-Pallete to lead A&M Taxand’s Miami-based Latin America Complex Transactions group.

Whilst the world runs from one crisis to another crisis, the M&A market is still keeping a high pace, however, first signs of a slowdown are on the horizon – higher volatility with respect to deals coming and going (the number of deals that A&M is engaged with is a record high, but so is the amount of deals that never start) plus the number of aborted transactions is significantly increasing.

Post-acquisition disputes sometimes arise due to different accounting standards applied. Engaging advisors prior to executing a purchase agreement is helpful to mitigate the risk of such disputes. In this edition of Raising the Bar, we discuss the situations when conflicting standards may arise and examples of disputes that might occur.

Kathleen King shares more about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) capability and the most common questions she receives from clients.