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Lisa Levy, tax partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, has received a 2013 Cornerstone Award from the Lawyers Alliance for New York.

Deacons has chosen Travis Benjamin to be its new head of tax in Hong Kong and China. Benjamin was previously with Baker & McKenzie's tax practice in Hong Kong for seven and half years, and with KPMG's tax departments in Hong Kong and Melbourne for four years. He advises clients including corporations, banks, investment funds, private client/family groups and not-for-profit organisations on topics such as fund formation, public and private company M&A and restructuring, capital markets transactions, financing and services arrangements, intellectual property exploitation and employee remuneration planning in Hong Kong and across Asia.

Sonu Bhatnagar has joined ELP as a partner in the tax litigation team. She will be based in Delhi.

Recent elections in Australia and Germany may be set to shape the course of global tax policy to come, particularly with regard to two relatively new forms of tax designed to combat harmful business practices: carbon taxes and the financial transaction tax (FTT).

Morrison & Foerster is launching an office in Berlin, taking nine partners from Hogan Lovells in the city.

Hogan Lovells has recruited Spanish tax partner Javier Gazulla Ascoz into its Madrid tax team.

Chris Davies has been chosen to replace David Harkness as Clifford Chance's new global tax, pensions and employment (TPE) head from January 1 2014.

Crowe Clark Whitehill has hired Robert Gunn as a partner in its Midlands office.

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Baker & McKenzie has strengthened its London corporate tax practice with the hire of Mark Bevington as principal tax adviser. Bevington specialises in international tax planning and joins from Big 4 firm EY, where he was a partner. Specifically, he focuses on domestic UK tax issues including the Patent Box, intangible assets planning and pension restructuring.