Mark Young

Managing Director

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Significant experience dealing with income tax matters of middle market and inbound multinational companies, including tax planning, compliance and financial reporting

Experience in a number of industries including energy, manufacturing and financial services

Extensive experience serving private equity portfolio companies on a broad range of income tax matters

Mark Young is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal's Taxand Practice in Houston.

Mr. Young specializes in income tax matters and his primary areas of concentration include tax planning, compliance and financial reporting. He has served clients in a variety of industries including energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, banking, insurance, professional services and private equity.

Mr. Young has advised both public and privately held multinational companies on a variety of income tax matters including complex business transactions, tax compliance and financial reporting matters. In addition to experience in ASC 740 (accounting for income taxes), he has experience in assisting companies with tax department performance improvement, operations and best practices.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Young was with PricewaterhouseCoopers' Industry Service Group and federal tax practice in Houston. Previously, he worked in both Ernst & Young's Dallas office and the firm's National Tax Department in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Young earned his bachelor's degree in business, with a concentration in finance, from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. He also earned a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law. Mr. Young is a member of the State Bar of Texas and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the state of Texas. Mr. Young regularly speaks at Tax Executives Institute (TEI) and to other industry and tax organizations.

NOTE: Alvarez & Marsal employs CPAs but is not a licensed CPA firm.

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The New Tax Bill — Acquisition Considerations

January 18, 2018

With the new tax bill now official, companies making acquisitions that are asset purchases (or treated as asset acquisitions for tax purposes) will want to pay close attention to the agreed-upon purchase price allocation.

IPO Readiness: Preparation Makes Going Public Less Taxing

October 10, 2017

With a return of normalized IPO market conditions, more private companies will likely seek public status as we move into 2018.

IPO Readiness: Preparation Makes Going Public Less Taxing

September 12, 2017

I’ve lived through both the highest highs and lowest lows of the IPO market since I first began working in Silicon Valley in the late 1990s. I’ve experienced both the manic days of the dot-com boom’s seemingly daily S-1 filings (remember Pets.com and Webvan?) and the darkest days of the Great Recession (and everything in between).

Cost Segregation – Current Developments and Considerations Related to Tax Reform

August 1, 2017

While there are many uncertainties in the House Republicans’ current tax reform blueprint, perhaps the item garnering the most attention is the potential decrease in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15 or 20 percent.

Customer Contract Accounting — Bottom of the 9th Inning

July 18, 2017

I vividly recall the moment in the summer of 2014 while attending a CPE event at the Miami Marlins Park. Sitting in a room of primarily controllers and chief financial officers, those on the front lines of what was about to come, it became clear that we were in for a heavy dose of CPE on a newly issued U.S. GAAP standard on revenue recognition for customer contracts.

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The Growing Importance of Sales and Use Tax During Acquisition Due Diligence (M&A)

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which reduced the U.S. corporate federal income tax rate to 21 percent and created an incentive for companies to repatriate foreign earnings, also helped boost interest in domestic investment. The U.S. became a more attractive option for inbound M&A activity as 2018 saw more deals, including several “mega deals” across many industries.

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