Alvarez & Marsal Taxand, LLC has completed the addition of San Jose-based Clifton Douglas LLP, whose team of tax professionals will join A&M Taxand, effective November 1, 2016.

Board members are still waiting for the impact of Brexit to hit but now is the time to act, according to new analysis from leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M).

A&M supports the Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) with assessing the economic worthiness of proposed investments in shore real estate and infrastructure assets.

As part of a wider cost-savings engagement with the government of the State of Kansas, A&M developed a series of recommendations for the Kansas Department of Administration (KDOA) to better manage its real estate portfolio.

As a result of A&M’s efforts, Fairfax County, Virginia was able to transform the former Lorton prison into Laurel Hill, a vibrant mixed-use community that retains and celebrates its historic structures.

With A&M’s assistance, Travis County, Texas was able to prepare for a complex public-private partnership at a downtown Austin site and quickly shift gears following a political mandate to create significant value for the County and its taxpayers.

With A&M in its corner, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) has been able to identify and execute the most valuable and feasible public-private partnership projects (P3) to enhance its campus.

A&M helped the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of Facilities, Energy, and Privatization (OSD) develop and implement the program management platform for guiding and monitoring the performance of the Federal government’s largest public-private partnership (P3) program – the Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI) and the privatized lodging program.

A&M helped Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland (Pax River) meet critical space requirements by accessing up to 600,000 square feet of newly developed office space under a public-private partnership (P3) with Hines.

A&M is helping Howard University transform its aging facilities and remain competitive with high-caliber universities nationally, through a consolidation of academic and residential activity at Howard’s core campus and an aggressive monetization and redevelopment of edge and non-core real estate assets located outside the campus edge.

A&M assisted the District of Columbia’s Office of Public Private Partnerships in comparing the costs and benefits of leasing privately developed and operated transitional housing facilities versus an alternative scenario in which the government would fund construction and operations of the same program.

A&M continues to expand its Disputes and Investigations practice with the addition of Larry Iwanski and Robert Lang, who join as Managing Directors.

The latest UK corporate governance code obliges listed companies to publish viability statements. Tom Teixeira, Managing Director of risk advisory services at Alvarez & Marsal, explains the key implications for boards.

The private healthcare growth story in India has largely been an urban phenomenon. This has led to a healthy supply scenario or even an oversupply scenario. This dwindling demand-supply gap in urban clusters and increasing private competition is likely to impact the operational and financial performance of private players. Managing optimal performance in such a complex and dynamic competitive environment calls for a structured approach towards hospital performance management.

This issue of A&M Readings in Quantitative Risk Management examines the Excess Capital Hypothesis (ECH), an explanation of the cyclical pattern of loan losses experienced by U.S. commercial banks and the related credit expansion and contraction. The paper tests five predictions of the ECH against the dynamics of Spanish loan markets in the 2000s.