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Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition $7.2 billion DBS Group Danamon WongPartnership Allen & Gledhill Acquisition $750 million Marathon Oil Paloma Partners Jefferies & Co / Baker & McKenzie Baker Botts - Matthew Larsen Acquisition $320 million VINCI Energies EVT Bolze Merger $318 million Hilltop Holdings PlainsCapital Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Joshua Holmes Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer Acquisition $120 million CaixaBank BPI Uría Menéndez Type of Deal Value Issuer/Borrower Lead managers/arrangers Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) Notes Offering $2.5 billion Diageo Citigroup / Credit Suisse / Deutsche Bank / HSBC / Morgan Stanley / Nomura / RBS Sullivan & Cromwell / Slaughter & May / Morton Fraser Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton, Sarah Joy Notes Offering $2.5 billion Devon Energy Goldman Sachs / Morgan Stanley Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Juelle Gomes Credit Facilities $980 million MSCI Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus Senior Notes Offering $500 million Bank of Ceylon Citigroup / Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation / Merrill Lynch Allen & Overy / Nithya Partners Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton, Alon Gurfinkel, Sarah Joy / Julius & Creasy Subordinated Notes Offer $500 million NAB NAB King & Wood Mallesons - David Wood Perpetual Capital Securities Issue $239 million Ascendas DBS / Citigroup / Credit Suisse WongPartnership Allen & Gledhill Initial Public Offering $194 million Bumitama Agri DBS / HSBC Stamford WongPartnership

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal last week released the ruling in its first-ever international tax case.

If you enter into a tax dispute in the US, you are probably going to lose. A study has found that the odds are stacked against taxpayers whose battles with the Internal Revenue Service go all the way to the Supreme Court.

Jane McCormick has become head of tax for KPMG in the UK, succeeding Alastair McLeish, who has been in the position since July 2010.

Type of Agreement Country Country Date Signed Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement Isle of Man Qatar May 6 2012 Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement India Malaysia May 9 2012

In an opinion released on Wednesday, an Advocate General of the ECJ said discretionary investment management services should be subject to VAT, raising some serious concerns for investment managers.

The First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) has accepted a taxpayer’s application to bring a lead case against HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to recover VAT. If successful, businesses could be entitled to reclaim more than £220 million ($354 million) of input tax on Royal Mail's postal services.

Serge Gloutnay has joined Gowlings – Taxand Canada in Montreal as a partner in its Montréal office.

Another two Dewey & LeBoeuf tax partners have left the firm.

The ECJ has today stated that French legislation that imposes withholding tax on French-source dividends distributed to foreign undertakings for collective investments in transferable securities (UCITS) is contrary to EU law.