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A focus on Hong Kong's network of double taxation agreements (DTAs) and why it wants an Islamic bond market.

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition $3.9 billion Sberbank DenizBank Linklaters White & Case Acquisition $2.6 billion CGI Logica Sullivan & Cromwell Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Acquisition $1.72 billion Leonard Green / TPG Capital Savers Sullivan & Cromwell - Andrew Mason, David Passey Acquisition $442 million Genivar WSP Linklaters Nabarro Acquisition $395 million Air Liquide LVL Médical Bredin Prat - Pierre-Henri Durand De Pardieu Brocas Maffei Acquisition $130 million Morgan Stanley SandRidge Energy Covington & Burling - Robert Heller Acquisition Undisclosed UCB Meizler Biopharma Covington & Burling Type of Deal Value Issuer/Borrower Lead managers/arrangers Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) Credit Facility $6.25 billion Comcast JP Morgan Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Notes Offering $2.4 billion Eastman Chemical Company Barclays / Citigroup / J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch / Morgan Stanley / RBS / Wells Fargo Jones Day Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell Notes Offering $500 million BRF - Brasil Foods BB Securities / HSBC / Itau BBA / Santander Simpson Thacher & Bartlett / Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon

Analysis of the ECJ EDF state aid tax benefit ruling, the OECD’s efforts to improve VAT policy in Africa, and Sweden’s decision to cut its corporate tax rate were just three articles that dominated ITR Premium last week.

As China’s market increases with more multinational enterprises (MNE) establishing operations in the country, the tax authorities are becoming more aggressive and taxpayers are seeing a rise in the use of the profit split method.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) inserted the new Rule 10AB to the income tax rules, 1962 notifying of the “other method” - apart from the five methods prescribed in the Indian transfer pricing regulations.

Alvarez & Marsal’s practice in San Francisco is getting bigger with the hire of Blake Davis as managing director.

The Indian government is confident that the indirect tax collection target of $90 billion in 2012-13 will be met, says finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.

Canadian taxpayers will face a number of indirect tax changes in 2013 which will require an overhaul of their systems and processes, but planning ahead will smooth the transition and could help them make tax savings.

Jeffrey Owens, the former OECD tax chief, has joined Ernst & Young as senior tax policy adviser to Dave Holtze, the firm’s global vice-chair of tax.

EXCLUSIVE: When Rudolf Elmer gave WikiLeaks the names of 2,000 tax evading clients of his former employer Julius Bär, he was arrested for breaching Swiss banking secrecy laws. But evidence to be presented at his trial may make things even worse for Julius Bär.