Alvarez & Marsal Taxand, LLP (A&M Taxand), an affiliate of leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), has strengthened its tax advisory practice appointing Nick Walton, Jack Hollyman and John Bettley-Smith as Senior Directors within its Infrastructure Investors service team.

Change in control (“CIC”) arrangements have become an effective way to attract qualified candidates and to reward top performers for their success. CIC arrangements are commonly put in place to ensure that executives evaluate every opportunity (including a merger or acquisition) with an eye toward maximizing shareholder value, without worrying about how such an event will affect their personal circumstances. 

In a recent interview with Financier Worldwide, Managing Director Marc Sherman and Director Meghan Cardell discussed the role representations and warranties insurance plays in M&A transactions and best practices for developing effective claims processes.

According to A&M’s Albert Liguori and Ken Brewer, the use of tax risk insurance has been most prevalent in the mergers and acquisitions context.

Alvarez & Marsal's Renee Klimczak and Kyle Seipert on energy transition.

In March this year, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) opened a consultation on the U.K.’s transfer pricing documentation requirements. The consultation seeks input for updating the U.K.’s transfer pricing documentation requirements and requests possible options and design ideas that could benefit U.K. business and HMRC.

Watch this webinar on the role of quantum experts for DELOS dispute resolution.

The benefits of eDiscovery technology are clear to see in the litigation arena and the technology is now widely accepted and even encouraged by U.K. courts through the Disclosure Pilot Scheme.

With the events of the past year, many businesses moved to a working from home culture. As we slowly move out of lockdown restrictions across the world, the likelihood is that a hybrid approach to working in an office and from home will be coined as the ‘new normal’. With this shift in location of employees, the physical location of potentially relevant information is no longer centralised within the four walls of a company’s office. In this article, we discuss the approaches that can be taken to remotely capture, in a forensic and defensible manner, all relevant devices and information that is required in support of legal matters.

In an article published by Tax Notes, A&M’s Lew Greenwald and Gianluca Mazzoni review the more recently proposed U.S. cloud regulations and compare the entity-by-entity approach with the lookthrough or unified approach.

Wendy Hallmark, Senior Director of A&M’s Private Equity Performance Improvement group, is featured in CFO Magazine about post-pandemic workplace plans.

Alvarez & Marsal’s First Edition of the UAE Health Sector Pulse Highlights How COVID-19 Has Accelerated the Disruption of Traditional Care Models

Download A&M’s Financial Services team’s latest report for advice for asset and wealth managers to stay ahead in the increasingly changing environment.