Change in control (“CIC”) arrangements have become an effective way to attract qualified candidates and to reward top performers for their success. CIC arrangements are commonly put in place to ensure that executives evaluate every opportunity (including a merger or acquisition) with an eye toward maximizing shareholder value, without worrying about how such an event will affect their personal circumstances. 

In a recent interview with Financier Worldwide, Managing Director Marc Sherman and Director Meghan Cardell discussed the role representations and warranties insurance plays in M&A transactions and best practices for developing effective claims processes.

According to A&M’s Albert Liguori and Ken Brewer, the use of tax risk insurance has been most prevalent in the mergers and acquisitions context.

Alvarez & Marsal's Renee Klimczak and Kyle Seipert on energy transition.

In March this year, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) opened a consultation on the U.K.’s transfer pricing documentation requirements. The consultation seeks input for updating the U.K.’s transfer pricing documentation requirements and requests possible options and design ideas that could benefit U.K. business and HMRC.

Watch this webinar on the role of quantum experts for DELOS dispute resolution.

With the events of the past year, many businesses moved to a working from home culture. As we slowly move out of lockdown restrictions across the world, the likelihood is that a hybrid approach to working in an office and from home will be coined as the ‘new normal’. With this shift in location of employees, the physical location of potentially relevant information is no longer centralised within the four walls of a company’s office. In this article, we discuss the approaches that can be taken to remotely capture, in a forensic and defensible manner, all relevant devices and information that is required in support of legal matters.

In an article published by Tax Notes, A&M’s Lew Greenwald and Gianluca Mazzoni review the more recently proposed U.S. cloud regulations and compare the entity-by-entity approach with the lookthrough or unified approach.

The Disclosure Pilot Scheme (DPS) was designed to mitigate some of the “excessive costs, scale and complexity” experienced by parties under the previous set of standards for disclosure. With only months to go on the DPS, A&M surveyed 250 senior lawyers to gauge their views on the process and what improvements can be made.

Every industrial goods company understands the importance of engineers. But many manufacturers are currently experiencing margin erosion driven by a combination of different factors that relate to engineering. These include the complexity and high costs of running engineering functions; inefficient utilisation of engineers leading to lower productivity; and skills shortages in key markets, to name just a few challenges.

The Quarterly Infrastructure Pulse, compiled by Alvarez & Marsal in collaboration with the GIIA, is a survey designed to provide a regular temperature check of sentiment in the sector and emerging trends. Learn about the key findings from the Q2 2021 report in the Americas and Europe.

A&M hosted the third Virtual Asset Manager Roundtable, providing an overview of tax and commercial issues that Asset Managers may be facing in the current climate.