Alvarez & Marsal boosts U.K. Valuations team with the addition of Managing Director, Martin Drummond.

Two powerful forces are pushing companies to assess whether they have a sustainable, profitable future.

On the 4th April 2019, HMRC published a special employer bulletin relating to key social security considerations in the event of no deal exit from the E.U.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) announced today the launch of LeaseSCRE (pronounced “lease score”), a web-based tool that uses machine learning to estimate an incremental borrowing rate (IBR) curve.

Over the last five years, most financial institutions have sufficiently strengthened their Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering (BSA/AML) compliance programs, making it more difficult to launder money the “old fashioned” way.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) announces the formal establishment of its Cost Optimization service offering within its Private Equity Performance Improvement group.

Senior Director Michael Carter recently co-authored a New York Law Journal article discussing how sports betting operators can maintain compliance and legal standards with increased regulation and scrutiny due to the legalization of gambling. 

A potential revamp of corporate formation disclosure rules is likely to turn on who controls sought-after ownership data.

As taxpayers near the end of income tax provision and tax return extension calculations, they may be thinking they have reached the end of the learning curve in terms of the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). While tax departments were busy developing new data sets and finding tools to assist with the calculations, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was releasing new draft and revised forms. Taxpayers will be required to familiarize themselves with these forms to report the TCJA effects in the coming months.

As discussed in this article, it is clear that gender bias in the courtroom is both discouraging and pervasive; however, a recent study by legal analytics firm Premonition provides a silver lining of data that has the power to upend this bias.

In 2009, the UAE took a significant step forward in adopting international best practices by introducing governance regulations for listed companies.

Private equity investors often find themselves in situations where portfolio companies need to realize meaningful and sustainable improvements in cost structure. Companies in these situations cannot simply cut their way to efficiency – they need to change how they operate.

The soaring number of campaigns by activist investors means management teams and board members have become increasingly familiar with the activist playbook

The increased overtime salary threshold is back. On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to raise the salary thresholds of the “white collar” overtime exemption rules. This is the second time in recent years that the DOL has attempted to increase these thresholds, and this latest effort is sure to be a hot topic in the coming months.

Senior Director Alan Cathcart spoke with FEI Daily what tax directors at companies affected by foreign-derived intangible income (FDII) need to know about the new regulations.