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Managing the Reps & Warranties Claims Process

May 25, 2021
In a recent interview with Financier Worldwide, Managing Director Marc Sherman and Director Meghan Cardell discussed the role representations and warranties insurance plays in M&A transactions and best practices for developing effective claims processes.
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Tax Risk Insurance: Taking It Captive

May 24, 2021
According to A&M’s Albert Liguori and Ken Brewer, the use of tax risk insurance has been most prevalent in the mergers and acquisitions context.
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Remote Data Collections: Benefits & Limitations

May 19, 2021
With the events of the past year, many businesses moved to a working from home culture. As we slowly move out of lockdown restrictions across the world, the likelihood is that a hybrid approach to working in an office and from home will be coined as the ‘new normal’. With this shift in location of employees, the physical location of potentially relevant information is no longer centralised within the four walls of a company’s office. In this article, we discuss the approaches that can be taken to remotely capture, in a forensic and defensible manner, all relevant devices and information that is required in support of legal matters.
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Disclosure Pilot Scheme: The Inside View

May 13, 2021
The Disclosure Pilot Scheme (DPS) was designed to mitigate some of the “excessive costs, scale and complexity” experienced by parties under the previous set of standards for disclosure. With only months to go on the DPS, A&M surveyed 250 senior lawyers to gauge their views on the process and what improvements can be made.
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Unlocking engineering excellence to achieve more with less

May 12, 2021
Every industrial goods company understands the importance of engineers. But many manufacturers are currently experiencing margin erosion driven by a combination of different factors that relate to engineering. These include the complexity and high costs of running engineering functions; inefficient utilisation of engineers leading to lower productivity; and skills shortages in key markets, to name just a few challenges.
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Infrastructure Pulse Survey - Q2 2021 Report

May 11, 2021
The Quarterly Infrastructure Pulse, compiled by Alvarez & Marsal in collaboration with the GIIA, is a survey designed to provide a regular temperature check of sentiment in the sector and emerging trends. Learn about the key findings from the Q2 2021 report in the Americas and Europe.
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Virtual Asset Manager Roundtable - May

May 11, 2021
A&M hosted the third Virtual Asset Manager Roundtable, providing an overview of tax and commercial issues that Asset Managers may be facing in the current climate.
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First 50 AGMs - 2021

May 10, 2021
The Executive Compensation Services team reviewed the findings from their analysis of the first 50 AGMs held in 2021.

Covid Crisis: Are efforts up to the mark? Optimisation vs turnaround of the French Retail Banking Industry

May 7, 2021
Over the last three years, A&M has done a comprehensive study of the profitability analysis of retail banks in France, which confirms that the economic model is under pressure, accentuated by the effects of the Covid crisis. This study is based on the 2020 results of French retail banks (Crédit Agricole, Caisse d’Epargne, Banques Populaires, Crédit Mutuel, Société Générale, BNP Paribas, LCL).