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Alan Granwell, who can count a stint as international tax counsel at the US Department of Treasury during his career, has left DLA Piper to become of counsel to Sharp Partners, also in Washington, DC. He advises multinational corporations on cross-border planning related to transactions such as acquisitions, dispositions and business restructurings; IP migrations, services arrangements, repatriation planning, international insurance, international transportation, cross-border leasing, transfer pricing and the use of bilateral tax treaties. He also advises high-net-worth individuals on cross-border tax planning and structuring, to include foreign persons becoming US persons and US persons moving offshore or expatriating.

Richard Basuk and Stephen Giordano have become partners of Hogan Lovells's tax group in the US.

Arthur Sinodinos, Australia's Assistant Treasurer, has announced the appointment of Andrew Mills as a full-time second commissioner to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).

Michelle Jewett has become a tax partner of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco.

Scott Sontag has joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison as a tax partner based in New York. He advises clients on a wide range of domestic and international transactions.

Taxpayers are aware that demonstrating substance in a given transaction is of paramount importance. Here, Sanjay Sanghvi and Aditi Mukundan of Khaitan & Co explain why this is even more relevant in India by exploring the evolution of the substance requirement in Indian tax law.

Fewer private letter rulings given by the US tax authorities and a desire for liquidity are two of the reasons why insurance is becoming a popular protection against tax risks, explain James Gray and Alexios Hadji of Squire Sanders.

Jim Fuller

Flurin Poltera

Keith O’Donnell