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Creating Relevant Content in Today’s Competitive Marketplace

October 27, 2020
On October 20, 2020, A&M Chief Marketing Officer Linda Orton, along with Chief Marketing Officer of Passle, Connor Kinnear, presented to the Legal Marketing Association (LMA) 2020 Virtual Conference on How to Turn Busy Lawyers into Recognized Thought Leaders.
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Quality: From Cost Centre to Value Driver

October 27, 2020
With unprecedented pressure on regulators and pharmaceutical organisations to bring COVID-19 treatments to market as soon as possible, we should expect quality functions within pharma companies to come under a brighter spotlight.
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New VAT Deferral Scheme

October 26, 2020
To support businesses through Covid-19 the Government announced that VAT payments could be deferred for three months. The deferral applied to VAT payments due between 20 March 2020 to 30 June 2020.   Businesses were not required to notify or apply to HMRC if they wished to defer their VAT payments and were given until 31 March 2021 to settle the VAT liability.
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Schrems II and Switzerland: A New Context for Data and Privacy

October 26, 2020
In July, the European Court of Justice (EJ) ruled in ‘Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland and Max Schrems’ – or ‘Schrems II’ – that US data collection policies are not compatible with EU citizens’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield that had governed data transfers between the EU and US.
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2020/2021 Oil and Gas Exploration & Production (E&P) Compensation Report

October 22, 2020
Alvarez & Marsal's (A&M’s) Compensation and Benefits Practice is pleased to share the results of its 2020 Oil and Gas Exploration & Production (E&P) Compensation Report. This year, we partnered with Equilar, who added commentary on their research and observations regarding compensation trends across numerous industries.
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Pragmatic Zero-Based Budgeting in Health & Life Sciences: a Private Equity Perspective

October 22, 2020
Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) is a management framework that can be employed to both release resources for redeployment in other areas of an organisation to create value as well as reducing costs. Ideally, it is set into the context of a review of the existing operating model and the definition of a fit-for-purpose target operating model. Our view is that for companies weighing up the potential benefits of a change programme, a targeted ‘Pragmatic- ZBB’ review can deliver tangible.
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ERP systems: the linchpin of a carve-out transformation

October 21, 2020
A successful carve-out and the success of the subsequent transformation journey requires a coordinated and forward-looking ERP plan that responds to the needs of the whole business and positions ERP to add real value to the new entity.
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The State of U.S. Retail – October 2020

October 19, 2020
This article explores the current retail landscape, how the industry will likely emerge from the pandemic, and six core areas that retailers must focus on now to yield positive business growth.