Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) announced the appointment of Alessandro Gazzini as a Managing Director and Country Head, Indonesia within its Southeast Asia Australia (SEAA) business unit. Mr. Gazzini’s hiring aligns with A&M’s (SEAA) growth strategy, advances the firm’s regional capabilities and bolsters its ability to help local and international clients drive change.

At Alvarez & Marsal (“A&M”) Tax we work with international mobile individuals and families to ensure their business and personal objectives are met.

In the second installment of the ‘Women in Real Estate, Infrastructure and Private Equity’ video series from our Financial Investors Group, A&M Assistant Director Ruhi Agarwal interviewed Assia Belkahia.

In response to the heightened need from the pandemic, many states have recently relied on Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds to pay for school-based supports (SBS) dedicated to addressing students’ mental health and wellbeing. ESSER funds are set to expire in the fall of 2024, and therefore are not a long term solution. To implement robust, innovative and sustainable school-based support models, school districts must strategically assess and leverage available resources. A&M Managing Director Erin Covington, Director Mathew Smith and Manager Abigail Snyder discuss how districts can expand social and emotional supports for students.

A&M’s Insurance team revisits the predictions made early this year, providing an update on how the outlook for UK and Europe insurance industry has progressed so far.

In the first part of the series, we will focus on the value created from digital investment, redefining “why”, “what”, “how”, and “when” to invest, spanning the use cases and exciting solutions tech has to offer, new organizational muscles including new delivery models, and effective technology partnership models with a clear case and payback.

This article is the second piece in our series on Value in IT investment. In our previous article “The Right IT Investments to Speed Up Merger Integration and Unlock Value for Private Equity” we introduced the Alvarez & Marsal EBITDA approach to the valuation of IT investments. Here, having tackled and quantified the Why of investing, we dive deeper into how Alvarez & Marsal approaches the How in this article.

On September 8th, Treasury and the IRS released Notice 2023-63 (the Notice), which showcased the rules they intend to propose regarding the mandatory requirement to capitalize and amortize specified research or experimental (SRE) costs under section 174, which became effective beginning in 2022.

Last year saw pharma M&A settle down into a slower pace as a result of macroeconomic uncertainty.

The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the UAW, and Detroit's Big Three — General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis NV — have opened labor contract negotiations for the first time since 2019.

On August 25, 2023, Treasury and the IRS released an initial set of proposed broker reporting regulations that would apply broadly to cryptocurrency transactions.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has expanded its Construction Disputes offering with the appointment of Disputes and Investigations (DI) practice Managing Directors Mike Hostettler, based in Los Angeles, and Augusto Patmore, based in Toronto. Mike Hostettler’s and Augusto Patmore’s six decades of combined construction dispute experience will help clients drive growth and maximize value.

Over the last 24 months, we have seen a significant increase in the number of co-investment transactions in the private equity (PE) and infrastructure sectors globally.

A&M's Ops & Supply Chain team have shared their insights on trends in the maintenance industry and how manufacturers can achieve maintenance excellence in times of constrained resources.

In the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry, activities around the security of content have mainly focused on anti-piracy measures. These actions have included a variety of technologies such as digital rights management (DRM), fingerprinting, watermarking and take-down notice issuances, but, by and large, content piracy continues to result in multi-billion dollar losses. A&M Managing Director Edward Hanapole and Director Thomas Ohanian take a deep dive into the security risks in the M&E industry and how to implement best practices and protocols to establish a robust chain of custody.