Mar 31, 2021 Sixth Annual Private Equity (PE) Leadership Survey | 2021 By Ted Bililies Clark Perry Pippa Ross Josh Tecchio Connor Lott +2 more... Show less What's most important for PE investment success in times of extreme disruption? Smart management of human capital. With the pandemic,...
Mar 29, 2021 Market Recovery Monitor – April’s outdoor reopenings will be just the start of the road to recovery in hospitality By Craig Rachel Graeme Smith It has been an incredibly tough 12 months in hospitality, with nearly 7,600 net closures of licensed premises witnessed across Britain...
Mar 29, 2021 Generating value from performance improvement opportunities pre-sale By Nick Wood In our recent 'Uncomplicating Carve Outs' webinar we discussed key challenges from both sell-side and buy-side perspectives. One area...
Mar 25, 2021 Why now is the time to shift from survival mode to a view of long-term value creation By AlixPartners This article originally featured on London First's blog.The New Year ushered in a further wave of COVID-related restrictions, putting the...
Mar 25, 2021 AlixPartners Changing Consumer Priorities Study By Matt Clark Dan Coen Clare Kennedy Brian Kalms Andy Searle +2 more... Show less As the world prepares to emerge from the pandemic’s profound disruption to normal life, our collective experience over the past year has...
Mar 25, 2021 Has Amazon’s latest foray into grocery cracked the store of the future? By Jimena Mardjetko Grocery is a sector in which Amazon has traditionally struggled. With the UK’s leading grocers having established strong offerings...
Mar 24, 2021 The people factor in business sunsetting By Sophie Welschlau Patrik Jacob Bernd Brunke Based upon our recently introduced “sunsetting” approach, here we focus on proactive management of a workforce throughout a carve-out and...
Mar 24, 2021 Value Creation Plan development in a carve-out – getting to Day 2 and beyond. By Mo Habbas In our recent ‘Uncomplicating Carve Outs’ webinar we outlined the key steps and approaches needed to get to Day 1 and beyond with proper...
Mar 22, 2021 Data centric organization and operating model By Amir Hosseini For a long time, companies were challenged to shift from a “functional” organization to a “process centric” operating model. This was...
Mar 19, 2021 Up or out: How to succeed – or fail – as a CFO (Part 3 of 5) By Peter Neubacher Stephan Riedmaier Benedikt Friedrich Establishing a CFO playbook of value creation and changeThe majority of finance specialists we speak to are of the opinion that CFOs’...
Mar 19, 2021 WEBCAST: Uncomplicating carve-outs: simplifying the route to success in business separation By Mo Habbas Catherine Sherwin Nick Wood The M&A outlook for 2021 looks buoyant, as countries emerge from lockdown restrictions and vaccine rollouts reinvigorate consumer...
Mar 18, 2021 THINKIN PODCAST: Is tech the answer to disruption as much as a cause? By Rob Hornby Narry Singh In partnership with Tortoise Media we recently hosted our first Disruption Thinkin. We were joined by Lilian Edwards, Professor of Law,...
Mar 15, 2021 Decarbonization and stranded assets By Sonja Stuchtey There is no value in denial. The decarbonization taking place across all industries will result in massive asset write-offs and...
Mar 11, 2021 AlixPartners Mid-Market Debt Report H2 2020 | AlixPartners By Tom Paterson COVID-19 continued to have a dramatic impact on European mid-market debt in H2. Lenders reassigned focus towards a much narrower set of...
Mar 08, 2021 Up or out: How to succeed – or fail – as a CFO (Part 2 of 5) By Peter Neubacher Benedikt Friedrich Stephan Riedmaier Creating and implementing a culture of transparency and empathy A CFO’s role is often interpreted as the manager who creates true...
Mar 08, 2021 Why Amazon Go might be much more than an interesting experiment By Brian Kalms Much has already been written about the new Amazon Go / Just Walk Out store in London in the last week. Most of it focuses on whether the...