For China’s Small Businesses, Life Is Still Far From Normal

Every industrial goods company understands the importance of engineers. But many manufacturers are currently experiencing margin erosion driven by a combination of different factors that relate to engineering. These include the complexity and high costs of running engineering functions; inefficient utilisation of engineers leading to lower productivity; and skills shortages in key markets, to name just a few challenges.

Demonstrating Compliance – the Challenge of Measuring Culture

The Quarterly Infrastructure Pulse, compiled by Alvarez & Marsal in collaboration with the GIIA, is a survey designed to provide a regular temperature check of sentiment in the sector and emerging trends. Learn about the key findings from the Q2 2021 report in the Americas and Europe.

A&M hosted the third Virtual Asset Manager Roundtable, providing an overview of tax and commercial issues that Asset Managers may be facing in the current climate.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has bolstered its Restructuring & Turnaround practice in Asia with the appointment of Tod Macri as Senior Advisor, based in Hong Kong.

The Executive Compensation Services team reviewed the findings from their analysis of the first 50 AGMs held in 2021.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), has expanded its reach across the U.K. with the appointment of Wayne Brown as Senior Director in its Financial Industry Advisory Service’s team. Mr. Brown will be based in the Leeds office and support clients across the North of England. The move marks A&M’s commitment to providing coverage for clients nationwide, and follows a series of new senior hires for the practice, with Bert Schouws, Amo Chahal and Gwen Van Tunen recently joining the team.

This edition of the Taxand Global Guide to M&A Tax has been designed as a desktop reference book covering 30 countries and to provide at-a-glance insight into the tax treatment of global mergers and acquisitions.

Unplanned cash burn and EBITDA erosion are common in carve-out transactions. In most of the deals we engage with, there are multiple points where buyers and sellers allow value to leak over the course of the transaction.

As ESG moves up the agenda, there are expectations that executive pay should be linked to it, presenting an additional challenge for Board Remuneration Committees. In considering which ESG targets should be incorporated into executive incentives, organisations should assess how these metrics connect to their overall business strategy. Remuneration Committees should consider what is most relevant to the business, whether it can be measured effectively, and how to ensure that targets are stretching but also realistic and achievable.

To decide if the services you supply and/or receive fall within the scope of the DRC, you will firstly need to consider if these are construction services or whether they are specifically excepted, and secondly, if they are supplied in their own right or as part of a wider supply of construction services.