Four Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations professionals have been recognized in the 2018 edition of Who’s Who Legal’s Asset Recovery guide. The guide recognizes experts who are deemed to be leading in international asset recovery by their peers and clients.

High employment might be great for the U.S. economy, but not necessarily so for private equity investors. Alvarez & Marsal’s Private Equity Performance Improvement practice managing Director Tim Keneally, Senior Director James Guyette and Director Mark Schmidt investigate the issues.

In this tax alert, we look at key areas where guidance is provided in the proposed regulations in advance of additional commentary and insights from our experts.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has expanded its global footprint with the opening of a new office in the Cayman Islands and three senior on-the-ground professionals.

While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) has been marketed as “reform,” it is better described as an expansion of Federal tax law, with many legacy rules remaining intact but now overlaid with additional requirements. One example of this is how companies are required to recognize foreign exchange (FX) gain or loss on distributions from foreign subsidiaries.

Driven by a record-breaking M&A market and historically low credit spreads, the leveraged loan market was white-hot in the second quarter of 2018.

This edition of the Taxand Global Guide to M&A Tax has been designed as a desktop reference book covering 33 countries and to provide at-a-glance insight into the tax treatment of global mergers and acquisitions.

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) Managing Director Brian J. Fox and a team of industry-leading specialists are the recipients of the Large Transaction of the Year award from The Turnaround Management Association (TMA) ‏for their recent work with Performance Sports Group.

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) modified Section 162(m) in several significant respects. While the TCJA provided some transition relief for the amendments to Section 162(m), it also introduced a "grandfather rule" that has been the subject of much debate. Notice 2018-68 answers many questions surrounding this grandfather rule and brings some certainty to this area of the tax law. This article will address a few of these issues at length.

H1 2018 saw a record total value of European deals in the TMT sector for more than a decade. Transaction value almost tripled to €103 billion (473 deals) from €35 billion (618 deals) last year.

Building digital financial services in countries where many lack access to traditional banking is opening up economic opportunities for the millions of people known as the “unbanked.” It is also boosting efforts to transform companies’ and broader organizations’ ability to deliver services in emerging markets.

Every industry, at some point, will experience a downturn. Those companies that strategically plan for these events, foreseen or unforeseen, are more likely to survive and thrive in a difficult market. In some respects, all industries are cyclical, differentiated only in their severity and the duration of the cycles.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) announces the addition of Managing Director Ben Hope to its Corporate Performance Improvement practice in Los Angeles.

Practitioners and commentators hope Treasury will bypass expense allocation rules as they pertain to global intangible low-taxed income, but a Treasury official’s comments suggest that the department may take a different approach.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) today released its latest UAE Banking Pulse for Q2 2018. The report shows that UAE banks’ profitability continued to increase, with operating income and net interest margins significantly higher than in the previous quarter.