In this issue of Raising the Bar, we present the final installment in a four-part series related to the Caesar’s Entertainment case.

Incumbents in industries as diverse as banking, retail and auto manufacturing are being left behind by disrupters whose innovative products and services are making life better for customers.

In this vein, “Corporate Germany’s” deep international inclusion, its industry structure and specific characteristics related to corporate governance makes a compelling case for an extensive investigation of German corporate leadership in disruptive times.

From removing names on buildings to “refreshing” the board of trustees, public institutions are experiencing the risky side of accepting donations and appointing trustees.

In this first installment in our series about PFI, we will carefully define a number of terms that appear in the accounting and valuation literature.

Companies with known underpaid taxes can accrue a significant amount of delinquent interest and penalties if the unpaid tax amount is substantial and has been increasing over a long period of time.

Global competition and a changing landscape has prompted retail companies around the world to execute a Direct Sourcing strategy. 

A&M Managing Director Phil Beckett has recently been named “Investigations Digital Forensic Expert of the Year” by Who’s Who Legal for the second year running.

Following our publication of the Dividend Recapitalization Trends Report in late 2017, we are now providing an update on trends in the leveraged loan market.

In a recent interview with Financial Services Advisor (a publication of The Dialogue), A&M Managing Director Larry Iwanski and Director Michael Carter discussed why some of Chile’s largest banks have closed the corporate accounts of cryptocurrency platforms in recent weeks, and what can be done to curb the trend.

This edition of the A&M Activist Alert highlights the continued evolution of shareholder activism across Europe as investors target larger companies and pursue increasingly ambitious campaigns. A&M's analysis identifies more than 150 European companies at heightened risk of activist attention and introduces a new dimension to the AAA model: divisional performance.

Over the last few years, there has been significant media coverage of the rising high school graduation rates in states throughout the country. However, in the last year, whistleblowers have cast doubt over the reality of those gains.

A critical first component of any transformation should be an independent, fact-based assessment of a company's performance.