Aug 10, 2020 | Claims and Disputes, COVID-19 Recovery Funds, Financial Services, Regulatory Compliance
Servicing of consumer finance loans has been an “in-person” activity historically, with the ability to physically wave a hand or raise a flag and have a supervisor walk over to assist with a particularly nettlesome customer issue. Moreover, handoffs between different...
Jun 22, 2020 | Claims and Disputes
Concerns about anticompetitive market manipulation, such as price fixing and price gouging, during periods of economic downturn are common. Firms facing extreme shifts in demand or higher costs may face greater incentives to collude with competitors to raise,...
Jun 18, 2020 | Corporate Finance and Restructuring, Retail
Barbershops, salons, gyms and entire downtowns face questions as a result of the coronavirus. As states start reopening across the country, high-touch operations like barbershops, gyms and salons must grapple with particularly acute health and business risks. The...
Jun 16, 2020 | Claims and Disputes, Retail
The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) has estimated that UK households’ disposable income will decrease by 17 percent in the second quarter of 2020; unemployment will double, with the biggest increase among low income workers; and the benefits plan...
May 14, 2020 | Corporate Finance and Restructuring, Retail
The decline of brick-and-mortar retail was underway well before the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with businesses shuttered around the country—and world—we asked Keith Jelinek, a managing director of BRG’s Retail Performance Improvement team, what retailers and consumer...
