December 2000 / January 2001

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Identifying the common denominator

UK pre-budget report aims for popular appeal

Changes to Dutch participation exemption are postponedBy Anuschka Bakker

Digital distribution through the tax jungle

Double taxation relief – further change

Lynne Patmore

Ashurts in newspaper deal

Allen & Overy advises on £507 million ports bid

Jones Day acts on $4.4 billion Kellogg deal

BG and Lattice Group in £15 billion demerger

Clifford Chance advises on £250 million property sale

Davis Polk works on $3.4 billion IPO

General Electric and Honeywell in $45 billion merger

Ashursts acts for Koninklijke

Norton Rose works on £250 million property deal

Simmons & Simmons advises Perpetual on AMVESCAP bid

Herbert Smith crunches the numbers on biscuit sale

Slaughter and May gives TV advice

Davis Polk gives assurance on securities offering

Davis Polk oils the merger wheels for Texaco

Allen & Overy disposes of £190 million

S J Berwin acts on share offering

Philips turns to Sullivan & Cromwell

Kutak Rock advises American Freightways

Slaughter & May acts for Regus

Allen & Overy merges with Loeff Claeys, Belgium

Rittershaus and Keiper merge

PwC loses out to Clifford Chance in Hungary

Freehills lures Blake Dawson tax team

Weil Gotshal recruits tax partner from Torys

White & Case expands in Tokyo

Ernst & Young boosts real estate group

Lovells in Warsaw coup

Osborne expands UK offices

SJ Berwin poaches Baker & McKenzie team for Munich

A&L Goodbody gains a high-profile tax partner

Arnold & Porter lures Jones Day head of tax

Arthur Andersen

Chevez, Ruiz, Zamarripa Y Cia, SC

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Ernst & Young's Latin American Business Center (LABC)

KPMG

McDermott, Will & Emery

Ortiz, Sainz Y Tron, SC

Xavier, Bernardes, Braganca

PricewaterhouseCoopers

SEC lightens the load on big five

EU VAT invoicing proposals could save $billions

China repeals business tax on software payments

Malta budget set to balance the books

Singapore exempts software

EU requests US sanctions

Ireland-India tax treaty

Hong Kong-Scandinavia air services agreements

Case closed for UK Revenue's missing files

OECD data show rise in tax revenues

Own-account trading bill proposed

Latin America explores cyberspace

Russia drags its feet over profits tax

Germany protects tax base

Griffin versus Citibank Investments

Dubai makes a bid for e-business

EU forces change in French VAT

Court decision gives rise to claim hopes

Israel smiles on foreign investors

Portugal courts global business

Keeping the competitive edge

Government proposes new tax measures

Banking and amortization

Non-acquiescence in dividend stripping decision

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