This report addresses the importance of CVD policies for MDMs and stakeholders across the medical device ecosystem, including the creation of publicly available online portals to solicit vulnerability information.

Alvarez & Marsal’s Compensation and Benefits Practice recently released its 2020 study on compensation practices in the oil and gas oilfield services (OFS) industry. Our study analyzed the total value of CEO, CFO, and board of director compensation packages, annual and long-term incentive pay practices, CEO pay ratios, and the prevalence and value of change in control benefits to which these executives are entitled.

There are several areas of financial risk to consider when evaluating the earnings quality of a healthcare services target. This article is the first in a series of quarterly articles that will illustrate the comprehensive way we analyze the most significant elements impacting a healthcare target’s earnings.

Alvarez & Marsal's (A&M’s) Compensation and Benefits Practice is pleased to share the results of its 2020 Oil and Gas Oilfield Services (OFS) Compensation Report.

Hot tubs are not usually associated with the provision of expert evidence in court or arbitration proceedings, but the practice of expert witnesses testifying at the same time (concurrently, or in the ‘hot tub’) has been in place in Australia for several decades, and has found some limited favor in U.S. federal courts. The practice is entrenched in court rules and practice notes in multiple Australian jurisdictions, including the Federal Court, and has been increasingly taken up in other jurisdictions such as Canada, the U.K., Singapore, and New Zealand, as well as in international arbitrations. So, what is it, how does it work, and is it compatible with fundamental principles of American litigation?

A new report by Alvarez & Marsal, in partnership with Retail Economics, has found that major U.K. retailers now occupy 20 percent more store space than they need and can financially justify, yet shops remain the bedrock of the customer journey amongst Gen Z and Millennials.

A&M Managing Director Floris Iking recently authored an article in Forbes Mexico, “The orchestra, passengers and the iceberg: the communication of companies in the face of a restructuring” about the importance and effectiveness of communication during a company’s restructuring. 

Quite often businesses are aware of a problem within their supply chain but don’t have the resources to fully diagnose the scale and impact and then construct a business case for change. This is where Alvarez & Marsal can help.

In Part I of the six-part series, “Driving Transformation Through the Office of the CFO,” A&M Private Equity Performance Improvement (PEPI) CFO Services Leader & Managing Director, Richard Jenkins, provides an overview of the three primary building blocks of a high performing CFO office that constitute the pillars that are critical to a successful business transformation.

Alvarez & Marsal’s (A&M’s) Disputes & Investigations practice specializes in assisting
public and private organizations – such as colleges and universities, government
entities, religious organizations, companies, etc. – in developing compliance programs
and conducting independent investigations that address Title IX issues such as abuse,
harassment, discrimination and/or misuse of authority or allegations of fraud.

In a recent interview published in Private Equity International's special issue on operational excellence, A&M Managing Directors Markus Lahrkamp and Jeffrey Klein discuss how companies must position themselves now in order to take advantage of the next economic downturn.

Over the past decade, India’s corporate landscape has experienced rapid change, which has impacted the way companies have performed, as measured by their change in market capitalization.

When we think about what type of data would be important in a dispute, we are immediately drawn to the usual suspects: emails, user generated office documents and paper. They are all examples of unstructured data, which makes up between 40 percent and 80 percent of all data in an organisation and on average is growing up to 23 percent annually. Although dispute cases mainly focus on unstructured data, structured data can be of equal importance to help understand an organisation’s corporate environment. 

The second article in Alvarez & Marsal's (A&M's) three-part series on cost optimization, entitled “Not Every Dollar is a Good Dollar,” is written for investors and executives in private equity portfolio companies that have historically increased shareholder value through revenue growth, but are now facing challenges and lower levels of profitability.