The number of activist short seller attacks on companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange or China based companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and other global exchanges have been on the rise in recent years.

Among the headline-grabbing elements of the CARES Act is the ability of corporations to carry back net operating losses that were generated in taxable years beginning during 2018, 2019 and 2020 to the five preceding taxable years.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has promoted Managing Director Seth Bullock to Co-Head of the Southern Region for its North American Restructuring & Turnaround division alongside Managing Directors, Brian Cejka and Jonathan Hickman.

Alvarez & Marsal Managing Directors Christopher Howe, Jeffrey Schwarcz, Albert Liguori and Kristina Dautrich Reynolds joined this year’s Tax Litigation Americas event hosted by Informa Connect on Wednesday, November 4, 2020.

Alvarez & Marsal’s London office hosted their second Virtual Asset Manager Roundtable on Wednesday 18 November 2020 with provided an overview of tax and commercial issues that Asset Managers may be facing in the current climate.

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.

On 13 October 2020, HMRC published its long-awaited updated guidance on the application of the Disguised Investment Management Fees (“DIMF”) and Carried Interest rules. We have reviewed the updates made since October 2016 and considered the potential impact for clients.

A&M Managing Director and cybersecurity expert Rocco Grillo recently participated on a webinar hosted by the law firm Faegre Drinker where he discussed recent changes in the cyber threat landscape and what companies need to consider in 2020 and moving into 2021.

The pandemic has significantly impacted M&A activity. In stark contrast
to the historic highs seen globally over the past five years, the economic
uncertainty created by it essentially paused transactions in the
market in early spring of 2020.

Hire bolsters A&M Transaction Advisory Group’s bench of strategic senior advisors

Company mergers are complex and costly exercises, with parties required to deal with many competing demands for their attention and time. One aspect easily overlooked, or considered of lower priority, is the compliance with UK merger controls, governed primarily by the Enterprise Act 2002 (the Act), and enforced by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

This article explores the OIG's seven elements and how the implementation of a common framework based on the OIG's seven elements can unlock key programmatic interdependencies that strengthen compliance and quality programs individually and creates new synergies to strengthen healthcare organizations as a whole.