The opening of A&M’s Frankfurt office complements the strength of its Benelux and UK Transaction Advisory Group teams and enhances the firm’s ability to serve the pan-European market’s complex transaction advisory, performance improvement and turnaround needs. The recent appointment of Messrs. Schmitz, Morris and Grein augments the Transaction Advisory Group’s capability to create client-centric solutions that address key challenges and concerns.

2015-Issue 29—Starting this fall, nine states are instituting tax amnesty programs for reporting unpaid taxes.

In a pair of rulings issued recently, the IRS announced some significant changes impacting qualified retirement plans.

In the years since the economic downturn, many U.S.-based multinational companies have been utilizing their large net operating losses to fully offset taxable income. However, as these companies utilize their NOLs and return to their status as “U.S. taxpayers,” many tax directors are being forced to reignite their relationship with a long-forgotten friend: foreign tax credits (FTCs).

Changing economic models in law firm partner retirement packages have brought significant change to the profession. As law firms shift financial obligations to partners, post-retirement benefits once seen as a way to attract and retain professionals to the industry grow more precarious. In this edition of Action Matters, Bud Schiff, Managing Director and CEO of A&M’s Executive Compensation and Benefits practice, discusses the growing financial planning concerns of both firms and retirees.

2015-Issue 25—State legislatures are working hard to make changes to their tax systems in an attempt to stay competitive with their neighboring states and broaden their tax base.

A recent decision by the Delaware Court of Chancery should cause many employers to at least consider amending incentive plans that cover their directors and to review their peer groups.

A recent decision by the Delaware Court of Chancery should cause many employers to at least consider amending incentive plans that cover their directors and to review their peer groups

Whose refund is it? What happens if the parent of a consolidated group receives a refund that came about from the use of a subsidiary’s loss — must it be paid to the subsidiary? When the group is one big happy family, perhaps this seems a rather odd question to ask. But what if things unravel, the family is no longer happy, and the members are pit against each other?

Alaa Oumansour brings more than 15 years of operational and turnaround advisory experience. His primary areas of expertise are in performance improvement, strategy formulation, and cost optimization, particularly in the areas of sales & marketing, operations, technology and finance. He specializes in the Telecoms, IT, Media and FMCG sectors, where he has advised large multinational clients ranging in turnover from US$100m to over US$100 billion.

This edition of the Tax Advisor Weekly describes a new process for mitigating certain tax liabilities due in the pre-closing period, and surveys the newly proposed rules that clarify the period in which certain transaction costs may be deducted.

A common structure for U.S.-based multinationals entails the use of holding companies in certain jurisdictions such as Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland or Luxembourg.

A&M announces four new hires based in its Paris office. The addition of Olivier Chatin as Managing Director, Etienne Leduc as Senior Director; Paul Lefaivre as Director and Pierre-Arthur Chatard as Senior Associate bolsters A&M’s suite of services and ability to create value for companies, investors and stakeholders in France and across Europe.

In the years since Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code was first implemented, most practitioners have become comfortable with the idea that a document failure may be remedied outside the formal IRS correction programs without resulting in Section 409A tax penalties if the correction is made before the deferred compensation amount vests.