Valuation professionals are constantly presented with challenging client needs, such as valuing new, often exotic securities with a variety of features that defy standard valuation techniques. Monte Carlo simulations can help bridge that gap.

Customer preferences are now a key driver of transformation and adoption of new business and operating models.

2017 was a year marked by political disruption, regulatory change and uncertainty among private and public companies, financial institutions and governments alike around the world.
To help put everything into perspective, we asked some of our leaders to discuss the challenges and value creation opportunities that will impact A&M’s global clients in 2018.

Untangling part of your business is never easy, especially on your people. Learn how to prepare and empower your people during your next carve-out.

A strong start can arm a new CFO with the information and insights he or she needs to drive value and improvement across the organization.

As tax reform in the United States barrels forward, tax leaders of U.S. Multinational companies are already drowning in new calculations and planning concerns. But as they say, when it rains, it pours.

While digitization helps businesses better address customer expectations, it has become just another management headache along with low interest rates, regulatory scrutiny, value chain fragmentation and consolidation pressures.

Just in time for the new year — and the new wave of reporting obligations under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 — the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued guidance that will give companies some flexibility as they prepare their annual and quarterly financial statements.

Both sellers and buyers have come to realize the benefits of sell-side due diligence, including accelerating time to close, minimizing surprises, identifying and validating adjustments to EBITDA and assisting management throughout the process.

Alvarez & Marsal Taxand, LLC (A&M Taxand), an affiliate of leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), announces the addition of Houston-based TRCG Advisors, a firm recognized for its tax credit and incentives transaction expertise.

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has strengthened its Financial Industry Advisory Services practice with the addition of recognized wealth management expert Mark Graham who joins as Senior Director and will be based in both New York and Philadelphia.

Many restructuring professionals may recall that there was a time when automotive distress — rather than retail and oil and gas bankruptcies — grabbed ABI headlines.

Kudos to the IRS and the SEC for giving us much needed guidance as we emerge from our holiday week. For many of us, the toll charge on deferred foreign income is now a first order of business.

In A&M’s view, the most prudent operating assumption would be that there will be a ‘hard Brexit’, with the UK becoming a third country for financial services, with consequences for both UK-based financial services firms operating in EU27 countries, as well as for EU27 financial services firms wishing to operate in the UK.