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.

In this article, we highlight some of the more common issues facing financial institutions as these standards have now evolved into the Beneficial Ownership Rule.

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), announces the addition of Jay Helverson and Rick Gardner, formerly of WTS U.S. LLC, as Managing Directors. Gerry Beach, Dylan Jeannotte, and Lee Zimet are joining as Senior Directors, and the addition includes additional professional staff located in Morristown, New Jersey and Boston, Massachusetts.

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) announces the formal establishment of its A&M Global Transaction Analytics (GTA) service offering. Led globally by Steven Lee, an A&M Managing Director with the Global Transaction Advisory Group, GTA will focus on the development, application and implementation of data analytics to enhance clients’ buy-side and sell-side transactions and capital markets activity.

Marvin Rust has joined the firm as Managing Director and Head of A&M Taxand Europe, and Louise Jenkins and Andrew Ponting as Senior Directors.

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.

In the April 2018 issue of leading Dutch M&A publication MenA, Stefaan Vansteenkiste and Age Lindenbergh discuss how to make change happen at corporates and private equity portfolio companies that are looking to improve their operational performance.

In this report, we identify the opportunities to enhance employer management of healthcare costs, the need for disruptive strategic leadership and Amazon’s potential technology applications to healthcare.

In this edition of Tax Advisor Weekly, we explain the BEAT, why companies in the services industry are at a distinct disadvantage under the BEAT, and a method that may be used overcome that disadvantage.

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) announces that Jeffrey Huddleston has joined as a Managing Director in the firm’s Houston office.

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) announces a further addition in its Middle East team with the appointment of Pietro Castronovo as a Senior Director.

This article focuses on the general opportunities and complications associated with tax amnesty programs. As of the date of this article, Alabama, Connecticut, and Texas have amnesty programs scheduled for 2018. Given that the Texas Amnesty Program begins May 1, 2018, we will also provide some helpful information about the program later in this article.

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) appointed Managing Director Marc Liebman to the role of Co-Head of the Western Region for its North American Restructuring practice, effective at the beginning of this fiscal year.