A new report by Alvarez & Marsal, in partnership with Retail Economics, has found that major U.K. retailers now occupy 20 percent more store space than they need and can financially justify, yet shops remain the bedrock of the customer journey amongst Gen Z and Millennials.

A&M Managing Director Floris Iking recently authored an article in Forbes Mexico, “The orchestra, passengers and the iceberg: the communication of companies in the face of a restructuring” about the importance and effectiveness of communication during a company’s restructuring. 

Quite often businesses are aware of a problem within their supply chain but don’t have the resources to fully diagnose the scale and impact and then construct a business case for change. This is where Alvarez & Marsal can help.

In Part I of the six-part series, “Driving Transformation Through the Office of the CFO,” A&M Private Equity Performance Improvement (PEPI) CFO Services Leader & Managing Director, Richard Jenkins, provides an overview of the three primary building blocks of a high performing CFO office that constitute the pillars that are critical to a successful business transformation.

Alvarez & Marsal’s (A&M’s) Disputes & Investigations practice specializes in assisting
public and private organizations – such as colleges and universities, government
entities, religious organizations, companies, etc. – in developing compliance programs
and conducting independent investigations that address Title IX issues such as abuse,
harassment, discrimination and/or misuse of authority or allegations of fraud.

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.

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. 

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."

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.