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Footwear Sector M&A Market Update: October 2026  

Cyber Matters: Edition 3

Reporting window: October 12 – October 26 (trailing 14 days) Cyber Matters is Withum’s bi-weekly brief on the cyber threats and incidents that deserve leadership attention. Each edition filters two weeks of government alerts, vendor research and incident reporting down to the developments that change risk, and pairs each with practical steps. This edition covers…

Case Study: Public Health School Retires Its Legacy SharePoint Farm and Moves Mission-Critical Applications to Modern Platforms

Executive Summary Every organization running on legacy platforms eventually faces the same question: how do you move the systems people depend on every day when institutional knowledge is thin and internal teams are already at capacity? Across six parallel workstreams and a 40-week delivery calendar, Withum moved the school’s intranet, team sites and business-critical custom…

Digital Forensics and Incident Response: Your Team After the Breach

It is Cybersecurity Awareness Month again. Along with the ubiquitous ads hawking pumpkin spice this and pumpkin spice that, it is also the time of the year where you become inundated with why you should employ cybersecurity and what could, and will, happen if you don’t. Given the volume of data your organization protects and…

Preparing for What’s Next: Treasury and IRS Guidance Priorities for Not-For-Profit Organizations

The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released their 2026-2027 Priority Guidance Plan on September 29, 2026. The plan’s 121 projects include reporting and private foundation grantmaking. The plan now follows the federal fiscal year, covering October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2027. Inclusion on the Priority Guidance Plan…

Managing AI-Triggered Fund Valuation Risks through Dynamic Portfolio Monitoring

Overview The private credit redemption wave of early 2026 highlighted a limitation many alternative asset managers had already recognized: quarterly marks and GAAP financials alone may not give limited partners (LPs) sufficient confidence in reported values. Fund managers that build forward-looking portfolio monitoring infrastructure before the next stress cycle may be better positioned to navigate…