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Deals of the week - January 30 2012

Type of Deal

Value

Acquirer

Target

Adviser to acquirer (tax)

Adviser to target (tax)

Acquisition

$3.94 billion

TonenGeneral

ExxonMobil

Nishimura & Asahi

Acquisition

$3.9 billion

ABB

Thomas & Betts

Kirkland & Ellis

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Acquisition

$1.5 billion

Pan American Silver

Minefinders

Borden Ladner Gervais / Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Stikeman Elliot - Dean Kraus, Jonathan Willson, John O’Connor

Acquisition

$1.16 billion

Amgen

Micromet

Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer

Cooley

Acquisition

$1.15 billion

Bosch

SPX

Dorsey & Whitney

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

Acquisition

$350 million

Celgene

Avila Therapeutics

Dechert

Type of Deal

Value

Issuer/Borrower

Lead managers/arrangers

Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)

Adviser to lead managers (tax)

Establishment of debt issuance platform

$3.7 billion

Associated British Ports

Barclays / Bank of America Merrill Lynch / Lloyds / RBS

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Clifford Chance

Senior unsecured bridge loan facility

$3.5 billion

Eastman Chemical Company

Citigroup / Barclays

Jones Day

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Tier 1 Offering

$1 billion

Banco do Brasil

BB Securities / BNP Paribas Securities / Citigroup / HSBC Securities / Standard Chartered

Clifford Chance / Campos Mello Advogados / Ogier

Davis Polk & Wardwell - Po Sit, Michael Bretholz

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The US technology company is defending its past Irish tax arrangements at the CJEU in a final showdown that could have major political repercussions.
ITR’s Indirect Tax Forum heard that Italy’s VAT investigation into Meta has the potential to set new and expensive tax principles that would likely be adopted around the world
Police are now investigating the leak of confidential tax information by a former PwC partner at the request of the Australian government.
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Mariana Morais Teixeira of Morais Leitão overviews Portugal’s new tax incentive regime designed to boost the country’s capital-depleted private sector.
Septian Fachrizal, TP analyst at the Directorate General of Taxes, outlines how Indonesia is relying heavily on the successful implementation of pillar one.