Scott Harrison brings extensive experience providing highly specialized regulatory, compliance, corporate governance and risk advisory services to insurance companies and their strategic partners. He counsels clients on business and public affairs strategies, business process and operational risk, issue advocacy, corporate governance, the development of regulatory and legislative policy, and market regulation/compliance.

The expansion of A&M’s offering in Asia, including the Transaction Advisory Group launch, is uniquely suited to the region’s current market environment. A&M’s end-to-end service offering helps clients, including private equity funds, corporates and state-owned enterprises, unlock the real potential of their businesses and fosters the creation of Asia’s next generation of game-changer companies.

How is it possible to generate cash savings from assets that have disposed of previously, in many cases years ago? The answer resides in recently released Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) regulations. If you have conducted renovations of your hotel and thus disposed of assets, yet are still depreciating the disposed assets for tax purposes, the new regulations allow for a deduction of the carrying value of the disposed assets. The effect is that by deducting the carrying value of the disposed assets immediately - rather than continuing to depreciate these assets over longer periods of time - there is a net present value savings generated by the deduction.

Alvarez & Marsal will present and exhibit at the world’s leading risk management conference, RiskMinds International, 8th December 2014. Fernando de la Mora and Paul Sharma examine the key takeaways and recommendations for banks’ future success.

Manos Kotronakis brings more than 20 years of experience in management and leadership roles in both fast-moving consumer goods and private equity. Prior to joining A&M, he was a partner and COO for Global Finance, a leading Greek private equity firm, serving on the Investment Committee and on the Human Resources and Compensation Committee.

Amazon is ramping up its innovative hardware product testing and beefing up marketing strategies to give its nearly quarter billion customers better ways to buy its wares using Internet-connected devices.

A&M’s Tim Waters spoke to The Grocer about his recent report on the future of home delivery fulfillment in the UK grocery market, tackling tough issues such as “can online be profitable for grocers? And if so, how?”

Global companies are changing their operating models to meet increasingly complex demands on their businesses. Too often companies struggle with how to effectively adapt their demand planning operations as these models evolve. If not done right, it can lead to unclear and inaccurate forecasting, ultimately putting the long-term viability of the business at risk.

For the second consecutive year, A&M received Global M&A Network’s highest honor, the Turnaround Atlas Award for Global Turnaround Consulting Firm of the Year. A&M also was awarded the following Turnaround Atlas Awards: Healthcare Services Turnaround of the Year for its work with Rural/Metro Corporation; Cross Border Restructuring of the Year for our work with Central European Distribution Corporation; and Pre-Packaged Restructuring of the Year – Middle Markets for its work with Education Holdings.

Alvarez & Marsal Asset Management Services, LLC is an independent affiliate of Alvarez & Marsal Holdings, a global professional services firm with a 30-year track record of maximizing asset value in connection with scores of business transformations. A&M's announcement follows decades of successful asset management assignments, including A&M’s oversight of the historic wind-down of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. – a precedent-setting case in which A&M successfully managed and maximized the value of commercial real estate, residential mortgages, private equity and principal investments, corporate loans, derivatives and other long-term distressed and illiquid assets.