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Ryan Katz and Dan Paulos have become tax partners of Akin Gump in the firm's New York office.

Linda Carlisle has joined Miller & Chevalier Chartered as a member in the tax department. She was formerly with White & Case, where she advised clients on the taxation of corporations and flow-through entities in a broad range of industries, including energy and financial services. Her experience covers international tax, partnerships, transfer pricing, corporate tax and financial products. She has also advised clients successfully in difficult administrative proceedings and has a significant legislative and regulatory practice.

Ajit Tolani has left Economic Laws Practice in Mumbai to set up his own tax, transfer pricing and international tax litigation practice called Ajit R Tolani. As well as appearing as tax and transfer pricing counsel in litigation throughout India, he will advise clients on all direct tax issues, domestic and international transfer pricing, and draft appeals for various tax forums. He has 13 years experience in tax and transfer pricing advisory and litigation matters, comprising 10 years at KPMG and three at ELP.

Patrick Connolly is an experienced senior in-house tax adviser who has spent the past 10 years in in-house regional tax roles covering Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia/Pacific regions as well as head office tax responsibilities. He shares his views on getting the most value from the client/adviser relationship. Paul Dunne, national managing tax partner for KPMG New Zealand and the tax lead on a number of multinational clients, provides his response and comments.

The basic job of a tax authority is to collect tax. In many countries, where multinational corporations are concerned, they are failing at that job. Salman Shaheen finds out why.

See who has done the tax work on this month’s biggest deals

Richard Milnes has joined Grant Thornton in the UK as a financial services tax partner.

Nina Olson: Questions remain about whether an international financial data regime is advisable

Tax transparency is lauded as an unequivocal good. But is it really this clear-cut? Matthew Gilleard explores the negatives as he ventures into the dark side of transparency.

Philippe Jeffrey