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International Tax Review presents its Global Tax Top 50 for 2012. The list comprises the top 50 influences in international tax, with a top 10 ranking.

TYPE OF DEAL VALUE ACQUIRER TARGET ADVISER TO ACQUIRER (TAX) ADVISER TO TARGET (TAX) Acquisition $4.05 billion Walt Disney Lucasfilm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom Latham & Watkins Merger $3.83 billion Penguin Group Random House Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Slaughter & May - Tony Beare / Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan Merger $2.9 billion PVH The Warnaco Group Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Jodi Schwartz Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Acquisition $1.2 billion Bayer HealthCare Schiff Nutrition International Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer Latham & Watkins Acquisition $697 million Cominar REIT GE Capital Real Estate Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg McCarthy Tetrault Equity Investment $451.6 million Canada Pension Plan Investment Board AMP Capital Retail Trust King & Wood Mallesons Acquisition $125 million MSCI IPD Group Allen & Overy / Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus, Jonathan Cooklin Linklaters / Addis Law Acquisition Undisclosed Lightyear Capital Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford Sullivan & Cromwell Acquisition Undisclosed Solera Holdings License Monitor Fenwick & West - Idan Netser Acquisition Undisclosed Solera Holdings Title Technologies Fenwick & West - Adam Halpern TYPE OF DEAL VALUE ISSUER / BORROWER LEAD MANAGERS / ARRANGERS ADVISER TO ISSUER / BORROWER ADVISER TO LEAD MANAGERS Notes Offering $1 billion Royal Bank of Canada Goldman Sachs / nabSecurities Sullivan & Cromwell / Norton Rose Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon Senior Secured Facility $500 million Riverbed Technology Morgan Stanley / Goldman Sachs Weil, Gotshal & Manges Davis Polk & Wardwell

Type of Agreement Country Country Date Signed Tax Information Exchange Agreement Bermuda Singapore October 29 2012 Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (Protocol) India UK November 2 2012 Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (Revised) Poland Singapore November 4 2012

International Tax Review presents its Global Tax Top 50 for 2012. The list comprises the top 50 influences in international tax, with a top 10 ranking.

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