Some of you may have heard that on July 31, 2015, President Obama signed a bill into law that allowed for a short-term extension of mass transit and highway funding: the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015, also known as the Highway Act.

On September 14, 2015, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service released proposed regulations under Section 367 that would dramatically change the treatment of goodwill and going concern value transferred by a U.S. person to a foreign corporation in what would otherwise be a tax-free transaction in a purely domestic context.

This past summer, you probably noticed a significant number of both business and tax publications discussing “patent boxes.” Your initial reactions were likely, “what is a patent box?” and “how would it impact my company?”

In this article, we discuss the worsening primary care physician shortages (by state), accelerating Medicare payment reform and the challenges associated with hospital investment in primary care. Without sufficient and compensated PCPs, value-based payment reform will not reach its potential.

Market demands, financial conditions and local cultures around the world bring distinct challenges to distressed companies, but certain turnaround strategies are universal. In this article, Action Matters sits down with leaders from the firm’s Turnaround and Restructuring practice to discuss lessons learned from the trenches, and the principles they consider binding when it comes to rescuing struggling companies.

Although their efforts have been highly politicized and trumpeted in the press as of late, U.S. multinationals have for years sought and implemented various planning techniques to lower their overall corporate effective tax rate. For technology and life sciences companies (and any other company with valuable intangible assets), migration of intangible property (IP) to low-tax jurisdictions has become standard fare.

With the growing prevalence of online and mobile shopping, traditional retailers face significant hurdles to effectively compete in the global marketplace. Adding big data analysis to their toolbox presents an opportunity for retailers to enhance their decision-making process, improve supply chain management and reduce insolvency levels.

Bob Rajan, Managing Director and the Co-Head of Restructuring with Alvarez & Marsal in Munich, and Maximilian Baer, an Associate with A&M, were recently featured in INSOL World about the role of big data in retail restructuring. Mr. Rajan and Mr. Baer spoke with Global Marketing about the current challenges in the retail industry and the role that big data will take in the near future.

The Federal Reserve’s prolonged historical low interest rate policy combined with its recent decision to maintain current rates due to the global economic uncertainty – primarily in China – continues to adversely impact financial services firms, including insurers. But low interest rates are not the sole factor driving a stalled insurance market. The combined forces of a benign catastrophe loss cycle, excess capital and influx of alternative capital have caused many insurers to lower premium prices in an attempt to maintain market share.

On July 23, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations under Section 707(a)(2)(A) that could have broad implications for how a partnership can structure a valid “profits interest.”

As tightened regulatory controls continue to squeeze the banking industry, institutions must juggle providing continued service while identifying potentially high-risk customers.

Many companies maintain “top hat” plans to provide supplemental pension benefits to their top-paid employees. A recent brief filed by the Secretary of Labor in pending litigation suggests that sponsors of such plans may want to rethink the population that is allowed to participate in such plans.

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).