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TYPE OF DEAL VALUE ACQUIRER TARGET ADVISER TO ACQUIRER (TAX) ADVISER TO TARGET (TAX) Acquisition $1.8 billion Priceline.com Kayak Software Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer Bingham McCutchen Acquisition $1.29 billion Diageo United Spirits (United Breweries) Slaughter and May / Platinum Partners Amarchand & Mangaldas - Nanda Shah / Herbert Smith Freehills Merger $575 million Stifel Financial KBW Bryan Cave Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer Acquisition $350 million Allied Security Trust MIPS Technologies (patent portfolio) Fenwick & West - Michael Solomon / Morrison & Foerster Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Merger $231 million PacWest Bancorp First California Financial Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Acquisition $215 million Northern Tool + Equipment Redcats USA (Sportsman's Guide/Golf Warehouse) Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Acquisition $167.5 million ARM Holdings MIPS Technologies (patent portfolio) Davis Polk & Wardwell Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Acquisition Undisclosed Baidu iQiyi.com Davis Polk & Wardwell TYPE OF DEAL VALUE ISSUER / BORROWER LEAD MANAGERS / ARRANGERS ADVISER TO ISSUER / BORROWER ADVISER TO LEAD MANAGERS Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Facilities $4.2 billion PPL Corporation Wells Fargo / Merrill Lynch / RBS / Barclays / Bank of Nova Scotia / Mitsubishi UFJ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg Notes Offering $2.4 billion General Dynamics J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch / RBS / Wells Fargo Jenner & Block Davis Polk & Wardwell - Alon Gurfinkel Senior Notes Offering $2 billion Aetna Goldman Sachs / UBS / J.P. Morgan / Morgan Stanley / RBS Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan Senior Notes Offering $1.31 billion E*TRADE Merrill Lynch / Goldman Sachs / Morgan Stanley Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg Cahill Gordon & Reindel Block Trade $1.1 billion LyondellBasell Deutsche Bank Baker Botts Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Farber Senior Unsecured Notes Offering $1 billion Alimentation Couche-Tard National Bank Financial / Scotia Capital / HSBC / UBS / Desjardins Securities / Barclays Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg Senior Notes Offering $800 million Stanley Black & Decker Citigroup / Credit Suisse / Goldman Sachs / J.P. Morgan Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Davis Polk & Wardwell - Po Sit Notes Offering $700 million Praxair Citigroup / Deutsche Bank / RBS Cahill Gordon & Reindell Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon Revolving Financing Program $675 million Ingram Micro The Bank of Nova Scotia / BNP Paribas Davis Polk & Wardwell Mayer Brown Loan Credit Facility $650 million McJunkin Red Man Corporation Goldman Sachs / Bank of America Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Michael Farber Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Notes Offering $500 million PepsiCo Deutsche Bank / HSBC / UBS Davis Polk & Wardwell - Avishai Shachar, Lucy Farr Jones Day Subordinated Notes Issue $500 million United Overseas Bank WongPartnership / Linklaters Linklaters Singapore Notes Offering $400 million Kennametal J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch / RBS Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan Medium Term Note Issue $312.5 million DBP Group Westpac / CBA King & Wood Mallesons Allens Linklaters Guaranteed Senior Notes Offer $300 million Ausdrill King & Wood Mallesons / Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Shearman & Sterling / Allens Linklaters

Type of treaty Country Country Date signed Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement India Spain October 26 2012 Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (amendment) Cyprus Ukraine November 8 2012

Doubts are arising over the method that should be applied by the Brazilian tax authorities in the context of Law no. 9430/96.

The new UK controlled foreign company (CFC) rules are due to come into effect for accounting periods starting on or after January 1 2013. Lorna Smith and Liz Hughes of Grant Thornton UK emphasise the importance of assessing significant people functions (SPF).

The UK Public Accounts Committee broached the subject of transfer pricing this week in its investigation about why HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is failing to collect enough money from foreign multinationals.

Corporate investment funds with Belgian holdings could be entitled to withholding tax refunds after a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling.

Following the Canadian federal tax authority’s failure to quash JP Morgan’s application for judicial review, the Canadian Federal Court will finally have to decide whether the tax authority unfairly exercised its right to reassess JP Morgan’s withholding tax liability.

International Tax Review’s Global Tax Top 50 has been as controversial as ever.

Prudential concluded its arguments for the extension of legal professional privilege (LPP) to communications between taxpayers and accountants before the UK Supreme Court yesterday, in a case with huge consequences for practitioners and taxpayers.