Is opportunity hiding underneath the economic rubble of COVID-19? Richard Chen, Managing Director; Dawn Duong, Senior Director; and Christina Cheang, Senior Manager; with Alvarez & Marsal’s Global Transaction Advisory Group, say yes

Industrial sectors like aerospace and automotive have some of the highest fixed operating costs in any industry anywhere. This environment creates the need for more substantive fixed cost reduction programmes.
A lower cost base is a competitive advantage in any sector and the COVID-19 pandemic has made management teams and private equity (PE) investors urgently reconsider the costs and benefits of different transformation programmes.

With retailers still working to respond to the global coronavirus crisis, partnerships and supply chains have never been more important – or under more pressure.

In a ‘normal’ year, annual and mid-year supplier negotiations can be the crucial difference that results in consistent margin performance and stable, predictable cost of goods sold (COGS) improvements. In this uniquely uncertain climate, the next round of negotiations will be the most significant in at least a decade, perhaps ever.

Late Friday, the IRS released its much-anticipated guidance (Notice 2020-65) on the implementation of the President’s August 8, 2020 Executive Order (EO) directing the Secretary of the Treasury to take steps to defer the withholding, deposit, and payment of the employee’s share of OASDI taxes and railroad retirement taxes.

This article explores what COVID-19 disruptions mean to infrastructure investing.

On July 28th, Treasury and the IRS released finalized regulations and a new set of proposed regulations under section 163(j), TCJA’s limitation on the deduction of interest.

Do you want to be better positioned to capture market share coming out of the crisis?

On Friday, August 21, the IRS and Treasury released a new package of final and proposed regulations, continuing the practice of providing taxpayers with weekend reading. This week’s package finalizes the temporary section 245A regulations that were issued in June of 2019 to address certain potential tax avoidance transactions.

In this article, we will discuss various M&E business models, challenges faced by the industry and strategies to maintain a competitive edge with a simplified business model.

Alvarez & Marsal’s white paper on ‘Deal-making during crisis – the Indian Experience’ reveals insights and trends that are developing in the M&A space amidst the pandemic, and are likely to stay. The paper analyzes and shares takeaways from three major crises over the last two decades, the burst of the Dot-Com bubble, the global financial crisis and demonetization.

A&M Disputes and Investigations professionals can help companies to investigate fraud, but can also help review governance and control structures to ensure they meet the needs of all stakeholders.

Today’s economy is riddled with the unpredictable – a pandemic, changing customer behavior, activist investors, and geopolitical volatility and trade wars create uncertainty as leaders rethink their businesses. Successfully navigating these markets and competitive factors often demands change at a pace and scale many companies struggle to achieve.