In a recent interview published in Private Equity International's special issue on operational excellence, A&M Managing Directors Markus Lahrkamp and Jeffrey Klein discuss how companies must position themselves now in order to take advantage of the next economic downturn.

Christopher Kulp to lead the Procurement and Sourcing practice within Alvarez & Marsal's Private Equity Services Group. His appointment highlights A&M’s commitment to creating value for clients through transforming sourcing, procurement and the broader supply chain.

Lorenzo Grillo appointed to support European expansion against backdrop of increasing prominence of cyber threats affecting companies of all sizes and industries.

Over the past decade, India’s corporate landscape has experienced rapid change, which has impacted the way companies have performed, as measured by their change in market capitalization.

When we think about what type of data would be important in a dispute, we are immediately drawn to the usual suspects: emails, user generated office documents and paper. They are all examples of unstructured data, which makes up between 40 percent and 80 percent of all data in an organisation and on average is growing up to 23 percent annually. Although dispute cases mainly focus on unstructured data, structured data can be of equal importance to help understand an organisation’s corporate environment. 

In today’s investing environment, activists are increasingly targeting some laggard stocks and making public calls for companies to sell off the poorly performing and non-core parts of their business.

Growth in Infrastructure investment continues to be a trend that has been unaffected by all manner of challenges, including the ever increasing global (and regional) political and economic instability. New capital continues to enter the market place at an incredible rate, meaning competition has never been more intense. Traditional infrastructure assets are being purchased for EBITDA multiples, which can only be described as eye watering.

President Trump's signature legislative achievement, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Act"), brought the most sweeping change to U.S. tax law since 1986. The Act includes many changes that may impact the way tax-exempt organizations operate. Specifically, the Act, modifies the way unrelated business income is calculated and imposes limitations on net operating losses (“NOLs”).

The second article in Alvarez & Marsal's (A&M's) three-part series on cost optimization, entitled “Not Every Dollar is a Good Dollar,” is written for investors and executives in private equity portfolio companies that have historically increased shareholder value through revenue growth, but are now facing challenges and lower levels of profitability.

Alvarez & Marsal’s Keith Williamson speaks about the the evolving role of forensic accountants in "Find the Truth” in A Plus Magazine. When he started out as a forensic accountant 20 years ago the job “was like finding a needle in a haystack – a ridiculously painstaking process.” Today, “If
you’re a young forensic accountant and you have skills in data analytics, you’re a hot commodity,” says Williamson, who heads A&M's Disputes and Investigations in Hong Kong and China.

Alvarez & Marsal Managing Director, Jean Chow-Callam provides insight in The Corporate Treasurer article, "Comply or Die: Why Asia Outbound Companies Need to Keep it Clean."

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) today released its latest UAE Banking Pulse for Q2 2019 which shows that the UAE banking sector remains resilient as banks continue to report a steady performance despite the economic slowdown.

Alvarez & Marsal Middle East Limited (A&M) is delighted to publish the Q2’19 edition of the UAE Banking Pulse (“The Pulse”). In this quarterly series, we share results from our research examining the top ten largest listed UAE banks by assets, and highlight key performance indicators of the UAE banking industry.

In a noteworthy change of events from recent years, this Summer saw the U.S. Senate approve and the President ratify four income tax treaty amendments (protocols): Luxembourg Japan, Spain, and Switzerland. These protocols were negotiated several years back but have been held up in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky for taxpayer privacy concerns since 2011.