In the midst of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, healthcare leaders have been – and will continue to be – inundated with grand proclamations: things will never be the same; you must prepare for “the new normal”; adapt or perish.

A new report by global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), in partnership with Retail Economics, estimates that 17.2 million British consumers plan to make permanent changes to the way they shop, as perceived risks of contracting COVID-19 at physical stores redirects spending into online channels.

Governments and institutions need support to address the financial, business and operational impacts of the unprecedented Covid-19 crisis to continue delivering on mission objectives.

Welcome to A&M’s Research Credits and Incentives Calendar of Events. A comprehensive schedule of live and on-demand events.

Managing Director Vincent Walden recently published an article for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)'s Fraud Magazine titled “Forensically preserving electronic evidence during a lockdown” where he discusses collecting custodian information and remote data preservation during COVID-19 lockdown. 

In this edition of Raising the Bar, A&M leaders discuss the positive correlation between a company’s corporate governance structure and its market valuation.

In April, the Treasury released proposed regulations under section 512(a)(6), enacted as part of the TCJA, which require tax-exempt organizations to calculate their unrelated business taxable income separately for each unrelated trade or business.

Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal continues to expand its European business by strengthening its restructuring presence in Switzerland. A&M’s new Managing Director Alessandro Farsaci has joined the firm to build and lead the Swiss Restructuring practice.

COVID-19 has introduced extreme uncertainty into the future of public education institutions across the United States. With the economy in a steep decline, the majority of states have closed physical access to schools for the last few months of the ’19-’20 school year.

As businesses Pivot to RecoveryTM, a new set of liquidity risks will come into play as operations re-start. As lockdown measures are relaxed across geographies, attention will shift to recovery. It is essential that boards and management teams maintain visibility of liquidity as they develop recovery plans.

Alvarez & Marsal’s new Scotland office hosts the inaugural Scotland Asset Manager Breakfast Briefing.

A&M has strengthened its global e-Discovery capabilities in Hong Kong and Brazil with the cloud-based RelativityOne offering. The firm also launched e-Discovery services in Switzerland.

The role of a life sciences company is to develop drugs and treatments. Some treatments will prove successful and improve the lives of potentially millions of people, while others will never make it to market. This is a business model filled with uncertainty.

Last Friday, the IRS updated its Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) with respect to the Employee Retention Credit (ERC).