It’s clear that 2020 has been one of the most challenging years that the retail industry has ever faced. After years of declining store traffic, competitive pressure from Amazon, dramatic changes to consumer behavior, and an influx of digitally native brands, COVID-19 has exasperated retail industry stressors.

A new report by global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), in partnership with Retail Economics, estimates that more than £4.2 billion of products will be on-shored to the U.K. by retailers in the next 12 months. This would represent a significant fillip to U.K. manufacturing, being equivalent to the country’s entire current clothing manufacturing output².

Market updates, reporting risks, IR35, an overview of the market and financial Impact of COVID-19; and COVID-19 Liquidity Regulatory Risk.

Tony Lynch brings to A&M his skills in helping companies strengthen financials and restructuring processes

The chemicals industry has faced extraordinary challenges this year. COVID-19 has only added to a substantial to-do list for management teams already grappling with a climate and sustainability ‘mega-trend’ and the global drive to adopt Industry 4.0 technologies and methodologies.

Managing Director Vincent Walden and Senior Director Varun Mowar discuss procurement fraud risk and how the use of data analytics in compliance programs can help detect and prevent fraud in a new article for the @Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Magazine.

Michael Niarchos will counsel health plans, pharmacy benefit managers and provider-owner pharmacy organizations

Best practice for executive directors in U.K. listed companies is that they are now required to retain a substantial holding in their former employer’s stock when they leave.

Monday 25 May marked the second anniversary of the application of Europe's strengthened data protection rules, the General Data Protection Regulation, widely known as the GDPR. But how far have we come since implementation and is the regulation really working as it should?

As part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Managing Director Rocco Grillo and Global Deputy CIO of Zoom Technology, Gary Sorrentino, discuss the challenges around securing the work environment in the post-COVID era, including how to confront the expanded threat cyber landscape and how to empower people to be more cyber aware at home and in the office.

One way debtors and responsible persons can prepare for inevitable uncertainty is through careful pre-petition planning and the strategic use of First Day Tax Motions.

On November 3, California voters passed Proposition 22, the Protect App-Based Drivers and Services Act,

In a lasting patch of Texas beach, residents seek to keep oil out

Alvarez & Marsal’s Scotland office hosted their second Scotland Asset Manager Breakfast briefing on Wednesday 04 November 2020.