Innovation in data-driven services, covering growing trends such as employee monitoring, behavioural analysis and monetisation of consumer activities, continue to challenge legislators and regulators.

Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) continues to expand its Financial Restructuring capabilities in Europe with the hiring of two new Managing Directors in the Nordics

Seismic shifts in remote working are inevitably impacting culture, leadership and the way different parts of companies interact, potentially affecting the way employees conduct themselves and exhibit self-control. As leaders begin to look beyond the crisis itself, and toward recovery, the stakes remain extremely high.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), has strengthened its Disputes & Investigations practice in Europe with three senior hires in its London office.

In a recent video interview “Using Machine Learning to Fight Money Laundering,” by Information Security Media Group (ISMG), Alvarez & Marsal Managing Director and data risk and compliance expert Andy G. Gandhi discusses the significant role machine learning technologies can play in mitigating financial crimes and fraud risk.

Suresh Dalai, Senior Director in Alvarez & Marsal’s Retail & Consumer Practice, Asia practice recently moderated a panel discussion at the AVCJ Southeast Asia Virtual Forum.

On Saturday, President Trump issued four executive orders, one of which directs the Treasury Department to defer to use their authority to provide a grace period with respect to the withholding, deposit, and payment of the employee portion of Social Security taxes on wages paid for the period beginning September 1, 2020 and ending on December 31, 2020.

The social and economic impact of COVID-19 has negatively impacted company performance across many sectors. Businesses are faced with addressing an unprecedented ‘triple whammy’ of simultaneous liquidity, operational and strategic shifts.

Accelerated demographic shifts and dwindling populations are some of the triggers leading to detrimental enrollment loss in private schools across the U.S. In wealthier neighborhoods, private schools face increasing competition from their host public school districts, some of which spend over $20,000 per year to educate a single child. 

The Software & Technology (S&T) sector has been somewhat insulated from the negative financial and operational impact of COVID-19, however, the virus has brought about certain risks and altered the way we perform due diligence for most S&T deals.

With lock-down orders and social distancing rules in effect, many companies have transitioned their workforce out of the office and into working from home or other remote locations. While initially thought to be a temporary phenomenon, many companies are starting to consider more liberal remote work location policies as workers have proved that a more geographically dispersed workforce is not necessarily the hindrance to business operations that it was once thought to be.

This webinar explored the current developments and best practices related to the R&D Credit’s Process of Experimentation Test.