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. 

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.