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Christopher Roman Nick Thornton Christopher Roman and Nick Thornton have become new tax partners of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Roman specialises in the tax aspects of alternative investment funds, fund-related M&A and real estate, as well as representing investors in secondary sales of interests in private funds and investors in debt and equity transactions.

KPMG in Australia has hired three tax lawyers, partner Angela Wood and senior lawyers Ross Hocking and Angelina Lagana, from the severely depleted Maddocks tax controversy team.

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition $60 billion Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Allergan Sullivan & Cromwell; Osler, Haskin & Harcourt; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: David Rievman Kirkland & Ellis; Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg Acquisition $12.2 billion Becton, Dickinson and Company CareFusion Corporation Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: Eric Sensenbrenner Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Acquisition $4.9 billion Amaya Gaming Group PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker from Oldford Group Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt; Greenberg Traurig; Stikeman Elliot: Katy Pitch Herzog Fox & Neeman; Appleby Acquisition $4.7 billion Group led by Macquarie and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation Cleco Corporation Kirkland & Ellis (for Macquarie); Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (for BCIMC) Locke Lord Acquisition $3.8 billion Whiting Petroleum Kodiak Oil & Gas Foley & Lardner; Stikeman Elliot: Luc Bernier and Éric Lévesque Dorsey & Whitney; Miller Thomson Merger $2.6 billion NetScout Systems Danaher Corporation Cooley: Lesse Castleberry, Mike Faber, Mark Windfeld-Hansen, Stephen Gardner Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: David Rievman, Gavin White Acquisition $1.9 billion Anbang Insurance Waldorf Astoria Hotel from Hilton Worldwide Holdings Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: Victor Hollender Simpson Thacher & Bartlett: John Hart Acquisition (50% convertible preferred interest) $1.425 billion Veresen Ruby Pipeline System (Global Infrastructure Partners) Bennett Jones; Baker Botts Latham & Watkins; Stikeman Elliott Acquisition $250 million Newly-formed co owned by Fortistar-led consortium Primary Energy Recylcing Corporation Stikeman Elliott: John Lorito, John O'Connor; Shearman & Sterling Torys Mortgate refinancing & buyout $144 million RXR Realty Royal Bank of Scotland Davis Polk & Wardwell – Kathleen Ferrell, Po Sit, Adam Bedzow; Haynes and Boone Kaye Scholer Acquisition $114 million Global Indemnity American Reliable Insurance Company from Assurant Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: Paul Oosterhuis, Jessica Hough

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Richard Asquith Richard Asquith will be responsible for the company's efforts to help businesses manage compliance obligations as they enter new markets. He has joined Avalara as its VP global tax after spending nine years as global head of VAT and IPT (insurance premium tax) at TMF Group – a practice he founded at the company.

Richard Baxter has joined FTI Consulting as its new head of indirect tax, moving from the same role at Alvarez & Marsal Taxand UK.

The accuracy of the Italian government’s revenue target for voluntary disclosures is being called into question Italy is extending a voluntary disclosure programme to companies (before the end of October) in a drive to recover €1.5 billion ($1.9 billion) of undisclosed assets. The programme could save taxpayers money and exempt them from criminal proceedings, but advisers are wary due to the aggression of the tax authorities during and after the country's 2009 tax amnesty.

Jean-Paul Ouaksel Ryan has recruited Jean-Paul Ouaksel as principal of the US firm's newly-opened Paris office. Ouaksel is an indirect tax specialist. He was indirect tax director for global healthcare leader Sanofi and national head of indirect tax at a major national accounting firm. He is also the president of the VAT commission of the Mouvement des Enterprises de France (MEDEF), the most influential employers' organisation in France, and is one of three French members of the European Commission's VAT expert group in Brussels.

Cristiano Garbarini

Emilie Fister