Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal, has appointed David Moss as a Managing Director, based in London. Mr. Moss re-joins A&M’s Corporate Transformation Services, bringing more than 30 years’ experience in operational turnaround and restructuring, both as a business leader and as an advisor.

Mark McMahon, Global Practice Leader of Alvarez & Marsal’s Valuation Services and Head of Alternative Investments, was featured in Private Funds CFO’s Annual Valuation Roundtable.

In this issue of Raising the Bar, A&M Managing Director Lorenzo Grillo explains to top management and boards of directors the value of cyber investments and how corporate leaders can understand, evaluate and effectively manage cyber risks.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal has chosen Glasgow as the fifth key location in its ongoing regional office expansion in the U.K.. The new team will be part of Alvarez & Marsal Taxand, LLP (A&M Taxand), an affiliate of A&M, and will significantly bolster the firm’s tax advisory capabilities across the U.K.

Reimagining organisations’ footprints requires ‘hard’ operational and ‘soft’ leadership expertise. A&M’s practitioners help executives make good decisions at each stage of these complex projects.

On December 16, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) released proposed regulations (REG-122180-18) under Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) section 162(m), which is the tax provision that generally imposes a $1 million annual limit on deductions by a publicly held corporation for compensation paid to covered employees. In 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) amended section 162(m) by expanding the definition of publicly held corporation and covered employees, and by eliminating the highly utilized performance-based compensation exception. Following the TCJA amendments to section 162(m), the IRS issued Notice 2018-68 (the “Notice”), which provided further insight to the TCJA amendments.

The idea that employees performing substantially equal work should be paid equally is not new. In fact, efforts to address pay discrepancies in the workplace, and specifically the gender pay gap, have been ongoing since before the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While significant progress has been made, research shows that gender-based pay disparities continue to be a problem which cannot and should not be ignored by employers.

Alvarez & Marsal's Benjamin Dunlap explains the how the banks in the Middle East fare as it relates to Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) and why they need to rethink current compliance practices and become more proactive.

A&M India advised on the historic Essar Steel Ltd deal. Managing Directors Nandini Chopra, Vivek Kamra, and Nikhil Shah supported the insolvency proceedings of India’s biggest Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) recoveries.

Few sectors are in greater need of transformation than oil and natural gas producers in North America. With the relatively stable oil price of the last four years, too many small producers lack the scale to cover their production costs and as a result, have built up substantial debts: S&P figures show around $137 billion in borrowings will be due by 2022.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has strengthened its presence in Germany by opening its fourth regional office in Düsseldorf to help businesses maximise value, especially those located in Nord Rhine-Westphalia.

Paul Aversano, Alvarez & Marsal managing director and global practice leader of its Transaction Advisory Group, speaks to Global Finance about the state of the industry, investor concerns and deal-making.

In moving beyond the political and cultural debates surrounding Brexit, the United Kingdom is now presented with one of those rare opportunities to more fully hit the “reset” button on many of its economic policies, including taxation.

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed a year-end spending package that included the long-awaited Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (the “SECURE Act”), ushering in the most sweeping reform to retirement saving in the U.S. since the Pension Protection Act of 2006.

Businesses operating in China face multiple questions across all functions. How bad is it or will there be any real impact? What’s the immediate strategy and actions to “stay alive”? How to support the government requirement while ensure business continuity?