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Marco Melisse and Sebastiano Sciliberto have become partners of Eversheds in Italy.

David Williams has become chief tax officer of Intuit, the US business and financial management solutions company for corporations and individuals. He will be responsible for the company’s tax strategy, including implementing programmes supporting the Affordable Care Act and tax system implications of pending immigration reform proposals.

Tom Cartwright has become a partner of Pinsent Masons in London.

When KPMG’s Jonathan Bridges finished a Treasury secondment to help design the patent box, he thought he would resume life as a corporate tax adviser at the Big 4 firm without much fanfare. He did not expect to be outed as the prime example of what some UK MPs believe is a rotten system that allows secondees to return to their firms and advise clients to get around legislation they created. But Bridges, singled out for criticism by Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), denies he sought out loopholes for clients to exploit.

Norbert Sieber became head of tax of Bilfinger, the engineering and services group, on May 1, succeeding Gilles Roux, who has stepped down after eight years to become chief operating officer of Bilfinger International Facility Management.

Brian Trauman has become national transfer pricing leader in KPMG’s economics and valuation services practice in the US and deputy leader of the global firm’s transfer pricing dispute resolution practice.

Unrealised capital gains transferred from a Spanish company to another EU member state will no longer be taxed after a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that taxation was contrary to EU law.

Deborah Toaze, of Blake, Cassels & Graydon, looks at what a Federal Court (Canada) (FC) ruling means for the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) ability to obtain foreign-based information from taxpayers.

Foreign investors were given helpful guidance on how to value assets for capital gains tax purposes by the Federal Court of Australia’s ruling in favour of Resource Capital Fund III (RCF) last week.