Consumer products businesses face the largest growth opportunity in their history.

They also face some of their biggest challenges, for which their history does not prepare them well. Those that find recipes for success in both high growth and developed markets will be the winners.

While most American consumers welcome the declines in gasoline prices that have accompanied falling crude oil prices, the impacts are not uniformly beneficial. Part one of this two-part series focuses on the impacts of falling prices on individual companies and on the real estate markets of energy-dependent areas.

The U.S. healthcare system is not yet prepared for the influx of aging Baby Boomers and their medical, behavioral, functional and social needs. Embedded inefficiencies exist. Facility-centric care predominates. However, a glimmer of change driven by patient-centric payment reform has begun to emerge. Read our report for perspective on the rapidly aging U.S. population, the evolution of payment reform and the implications of all the changes to the post-acute care sector.

The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has focused its attention on closing the tax gap and one way it hopes to do so is by collecting under-withheld employment taxes.

In this article, Tax Senior Advisor Ken Brewer and Tax Managing Director Albert Liguori discuss whether Treasury acted within the bounds of its congressionally delegated authority in releasing the proposed regulations under section 385.

News reports in recent months have highlighted the rapid growth in non-performing assets and restructured loans in the Indian banking system. The Reserve Bank of India has underlined the rising incidence of stressed assets as a serious issue and has taken policy measures to address it.

The need for a Chief Restructuring Officer (“CRO”), not a Chief Risk Officer as the acronym might suggest, is critical in our opinion to the success of any restructuring.

Benefit brokers have long competed for employer-based group health insurance business in part by touting their ability to “get the best deal” for their clients. Brokers often point to their size (large or small), geographic location or an influential relationship with an insurance company to support their claim of being able to secure a better rate than a competitor.

Gone are the days when placing employer-based health insurance coverage involved a relatively simple transaction between an employer and its benefit broker. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) significantly complicated the landscape for employer-based health insurance, including imposing stringent new compliance mandates on employers. In an effort to manage this risk, employers and human resource (HR) departments are demanding more services from their brokers.

Private healthcare payers have faced significant cost pressures for years and are now confronted with the recent changes to the healthcare system. With challenges such as the rise of complex payment systems, transformation from the B2B to B2C market and the addition of millions of beneficiaries who are likely to choose plans that reimburse at the lowest rates, the need for cost containment is more urgent today than ever.

As competition across the private equity market continues to heat up and funds look for their next actionable win, procurement optimization remains one of the most tangible value drivers to quickly boost operational performance within portfolio companies.

Working capital adjustments are often some of the most highly negotiated provisions in a private company M&A transaction agreement.

In this, the era of “Re-Globalization”, geopolitical and macroeconomic risks are becoming increasingly influential on investment, both within and between countries.

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