In the run-up to GDPR compliance (EU’s General Data Protection Act, enshrined in U.K. law as the Data Protection Act 2018), which may now seem a distant memory, as organisations looked inward into their data processing activities. A commonly posed question was ‘if we are not aware of a breach, we have no responsibility to report it?’

In the third of our short series of Reward and Employment Tax articles for the end of the 2020 year and heading towards the U.K. 21/22 tax year, it would be remiss not to mention “IR35”.

The Disputes and Investigations team at leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) today shared insights on the major 2021 trends it expects related to fraud, regulatory risks, cyber-crime and M&A disputes, while also providing a guide for mitigating risks and safeguarding business continuity as companies face the full effects of COVID-19.

Historically, HMRC has viewed compensation payments as being outside the scope of VAT rather than being consideration for any supply.

A&M has announced the promotion of 37 professionals from across the globe to the position of Managing Director.

Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) continues the expansion of its Financial Restructuring capabilities in Europe with the hiring of Christian Ebner as Managing Director, who will focus on the German and Italian markets.

Hiring Blitz Ushers in New Restructuring Era in Debt Laden Gulf

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has bolstered its regional forensic accounting and investigative capabilities with the appointment of Frankie Leung as Managing Director in China.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) India has announced the appointment of Sandeep Pangal as Senior Advisor in the Corporate Finance and Restructuring group in Mumbai.

With Biden’s inauguration around the corner and additional political appointments on the horizon, what can corporate compliance officers and in-house counsel expect with regard to corporate enforcement under the Biden administration? Alvarez & Marsal’s Steve Spiegelhalter and Paul Fitzsimmons discuss.

Today, the final carried interest regulations were published in the Federal Register. 

In a new article for ACAMS Today, Alvarez & Marsal Director Mariah Rodriguez discusses how using a risk-based approach to anti-money laundering compliance can help companies more readily assess risks to create and develop controls. 

Caution reigns ahead of oil industry's Q4 results

A few years ago, deep analytical capability through deal processes was seen as a ‘nice-to-have’. It is safe to say that this is no longer the case: transaction analytics is an essential component of buy-side and sell-side playbooks today.

Companies and commentators have spent the last year expending much effort in order to understand which of COVID-19’s many upheavals will be temporary and which will endure for the long term. Supply chains have been at the heart of many of these changes.