Americas Awards winners revealed

Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom has won the award for North America tax firm of the year at International Tax Review's fourth annual Americas Tax Awards. Taxand, a global network of leading independent tax firms, won the award for Latin America tax firm of the year.

The Editor's Choice Award, for the person or organisation that has made a particular impact on tax, went to Congressman Charles Rangel, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the US House of Representatives. He was the only individual winner of the night.

Ernst & Young won six awards, the most by any firm, including the award for North America transfer pricing firm of the year and North America indirect tax firm of the year.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, which was named Latin America transfer pricing firm of the year, and Baker & McKenzie came next with five awards. .

Apart from indirect tax, other new awards this year went to Goodmans for North America capital markets tax transaction of the year; Cravath Swaine & Moore for M&A tax team of the year in North America; Machado Associados, which won the equivalent award in Latin America, Alvarez & Marsal Taxand, the winner of the North America restructuring tax firm of the year and Baker & McKenzie, which was the top firm for restructuring tax advice in Latin America.

Fifty six awards were presented to firms that demonstrated excellence, including innovation and an ability to deal with complexity, and strength in depth in each category, in 14 jurisdictions or US metropolitan areas:

Argentina, Brazil Canada Chile Colombia, Mexico, Peru, US: Chicago, US: Houston & Dallas, US: Los Angeles, US: New York, US: San Francisco Area, US: Washington, DC and Venezuela.

The winners are announced here:

TRANSFER PRICING FIRM OF THE YEAR AWARDS	TAX LITIGATION FIRM OF THE YEAR AWARDS	TAX FIRM OF THE YEAR AWARDS	REGIONAL AND TRANSACTIONAL AWARDS
Argentina Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year	Argentina Tax Litigation Firm of the Year	Argentina Tax Firm of the year	North America Capital Markets Tax Transaction of the Year
PricewaterhouseCoopers	Bruchou, Fernandez Madero & Lombardi - Taxand	Negri & Teijeiro Abogados	Goodmans - Restructuring of Canadian Third-Party Structured Asset-Backed Commercial Paper
Brazil Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year	Brazil Tax Litigation Firm of the Year	Brazil Tax Firm of the Year	North America M&A Tax Transaction of the Year
Deloitte	Advocacia Krakowiak	Lefosse Advogados in cooperation with Linklaters	Cravath Swaine & Moore - M&A advice to Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2008/2009
Chile Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year	Chile Tax Litigation Firm of the Year	Chile Tax Firm of the Year	North America Tax Restructuring Firm of the Year
KPMG	Baraona Marré – Abogados	Carey y Cía	Alvarez & Marsal Taxand
Colombia Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year	Colombia Tax Litigation Firm of the Year	Colombia Tax Firm of the Year	North America Indirect Tax Firm of the Year
Baker & McKenzie	Godoy & Hoyos	KPMG	Ernst & Young
Peru Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year	Peru Tax Litigation Firm of the Year	Peru Tax Firm of the Year	Latin America M&A Tax Team of the Year
PricewaterhouseCoopers	Rodrigo, Elias & Medrano	Hernàndez & Cia	Machado Associados Advogados e Consultores
Venezuela Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year	Venezuela Tax Litigation Firm of the Year	Venezuela Tax Firm of the Year	Latin America Tax Restructuring Team of the Year
Ernst & Young	Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque	Baker & McKenzie	Baker & McKenzie
Canada Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year	Canada Tax Litigation Firm of the Year	Canada: Tax Firm of the Year	Latin America Indirect Tax Firm of the Year
Ernst & Young	Fraser Milner Casgrain	Blake Cassels & Graydon	Deloitte
Mexico Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year	Mexico Tax Litigation Firm of the Year	Mexico Tax Firm of the Year	Best Newcomer US
Baker & McKenzie	PricewaterhouseCoopers	Chevez, Ruiz, Zamarripa y Cia	Ceteris
US: Chicago Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year	North America Tax Litigation Firm of the Year	US: Chicago Tax Firm of the Year	Best Newcomer Latin America
PricewaterhouseCoopers	Mayer Brown	Kirkland & Ellis	Munoz Manzo y Ocampo
US: Houston & Dallas Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year	Latin America Tax Litigation Firm of the Year	US: Houston & Dallas Tax Firm of the Year	Best Use of Internet
Ernst & Young	Bruchou, Fernandez Madero & Lombardi - Taxand	Baker Botts	KPMG
US: Los Angeles Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year	Tax Court of Canada Firm of the Year	US: Los Angeles Tax Firm of the Year	North American Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte	McCarthy Tetrault	Latham & Watkins	Ernst & Young
US: New York Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year	US Tax Court Award Firm of the Year	US: New York Tax Firm of the Year	Latin American Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker & McKenzie	Mayer Brown	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton	PricewaterhouseCoopers
US: San Francisco Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year	Editor'sChoiceAward	US: San Francisco Area Tax Firm of Year	North American Tax Firm of the Year
Ernst & Young	Congressman Charles Rangel	Fenwick & West	Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
US: Washington DC Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year		US: Washington, DC Tax Firm of the Year	Latin America Tax Firm of the Year
Deloitte		Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom	Taxand

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