Joey Baruch Shares Smart Best Practices For Reviewing Code

The Democrats are planning to move full speed ahead to enact their signature Build Back Better Act, but the proposal that the House just passed could face significant hurdles crossing the finish line as it enters the Senate budget reconciliation process.

The Investment Association (“the IA”) has today written to FTSE All Share Remuneration Committee Chairs to summarise the outcome of its annual review of its Principles of Remuneration.

In this issue, A&M examines the benefits of a flexible cost structure for automotive companies as the selected topic for the November Industry Focus.

Alvarez & Marsal's (A&M’s) Compensation and Benefits Practice is pleased to share the results of its 2021/2022 Executive Change in Control Report.

How can automotive suppliers remain profitable in a highly volatile environment? The automotive industry is undergoing a transformation of unparalleled dimension in its history. Powertrain electrification, connectivity, shared mobility, and autonomous driving are challenging existing business models and the entire automotive value chain. 

It’s still advantageous for UK subsidiaries of US companies to make UK research and development (R&D) credit claims.

Many Med Tech companies are still experiencing challenges as we move into a post-pandemic world. The cost of distribution has increased substantially, working capital has exploded, service levels have deteriorated, and profitability has suffered. A&M’s Healthcare & Life Sciences team set out approaches to adapt to the new environment, while achieving up to 3-5 percentage points improvement of EBITDA.

In this workshop session, industry experts examined remuneration and governance best practices and discussed how to find the right balance across all stakeholders.

In a new thought piece, A&M leaders How Jit Lim and Calvin Ling explore opportunities and resources needed in countries of Southeast Asia for multinational manufacturers navigating on the ground capabilities that can add to an organization’s value chain.

In August and September 2021, Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) conducted a survey of a representative sample of 1,500 U.S. consumers to understand their sense of optimism, their desire to shop, what they were looking to buy and how they planned to use different shopping channels, especially as their behavior had been so radically altered by Covid and lockdowns.

The client is a manufacturer of high-quality steel products for customers in the construction, transport, engineering, energy and other industries. It has customers across 30 countries worldwide, revenues of c.$2bn and 34,000 employees. A&M was engaged to make scrap purchasing more transparent and available for analysis, to recommend optimal time and price for purchasing scrap metal and to align the incentives of scrap metal buyers with their business objectives.

Our client is a European leading international, multi-channel retailer. Its main trading territories are in the UK where it has stores and a significant online business. Our client offers customers around the world a mix of own brands, international brands and concessions. A&M was engaged to diagnose issues with their ecommerce business.