How consumer behavior shifted during the pandemic and what we predict won’t shift back.

As quarantine measures continue and even tighter travel restrictions are put in place, U.K. airports must re-examine their business models given the near-permanent impact on the sector. We assess the numbers and explore what steps should be considered.

Understanding the impact from COVID-19 and maximizing transaction value with data.

Malls that wish to survive must strategically transform by providing relevant, safe community centers, while embracing changing consumer trends and retail realities.

As the pandemic raged in early 2020, the unprecedented surge in demand initially buoyed the performance of most food companies. Nine months later, as the economic crisis continues to impact families, there have been significant “sticky” shifts in consumer spending, preferences and eating behaviors.

A&M’s Commercial Operations team have been working with our clients to prepare them for the re-emergence from lockdown. With our Customer Demand Scenarios approach, we have helped clients map their likely customer demand, understand their competitive landscape, and focus on the reset of levers that place them in a more advantaged position as markets re-emerge.

In hopes of turning the corner on Covid in 2021, private equity investors are keen to understand the lingering, and potentially permanent, effects on their portfolio companies.

A&M’s Kevin M. Jacobs says, taxpayers need to assess the advantages of carrying back losses to a 35 percent tax year along with the implications for tax credits, and compare that with carrying the loss forward to a year in which tax rates may be increasing but the losses can only be used to offset 80 percent of taxable income.

A&M’s Financial Services team’s latest report analysis how asset and wealth managers have accelerated a drive towards scale, making the year 2020 the beginning of a significant consolidation cycle.

A look at digital transformation in the Indian retail industry.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) continues its growth in Europe with the launch of its first office in Helsinki, Finland. The Helsinki office opening marks the continuation A&M’s expanding presence in the Nordics building upon the firm’s Oslo office opening last year, demonstrating its commitment to the region.

The reently finalized business interest deduction regulations unexpectedly reserved on a favorable rule for U.S. shareholders of controlled foreign corporations, presenting a quandary for taxpayers looking to apply the rules.

Industrials companies are at the centre of a web of different cyber risks: basic malware protection and email security software barely scratches the surface. As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes more and more prevalent in industrial settings, the number of devices that can potentially be hacked is growing all the time.