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International law firm Reed Smith has appointed Thomas Gierath to its partnership.

Past and present tax officials from Asia and the US, speaking on the first day of International Tax Review's Asia Tax Forum in Singapore, painted a picture of compliance in their jurisdictions where in some areas efforts are being radically restructured, such as the reorganisation of the US mutual agreement procedure and advance pricing agreement (APA) programmes, and in others change is more gradual.

For many companies, the transition to filing corporate tax returns in inline extensible business reporting language (iXBRL) has been far from smooth.

Microsoft’s recent US transfer pricing victory should force states to rethink the practice of outsourcing transfer pricing assessments, say advisers.

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition $5.3 billion Energy Transfer Partners Sunoco Latham & Watkins - Timothy Fenn, Laurence Stein Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Eiko Stange / Michael Sabbah Acquisition $2.2 billion Starlight Investments TransGlobe Apartment REIT Cassels, Brock & Blackwell / Bloom Lanys / Stikeman Elliott Blake, Cassels & Graydon Acquisition $2 billion Wolverine Worldwide / Blum Capital / Golden Gate Collective Brands Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer Acquisition $1.3 billion Terra Firma Four Seasons Health Care Slaughter & May Macfarlanes Acquisition $1.02 billion Glory Talaris Topco Hengeler Mueller / Slaughter & May / Bredin Prat / Mori Hamada & Matsumoto Clifford Chance Acquisition $300 million Microsoft Barnes & Noble Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Cravath, Swaine & Moore Acquisition $137 million Pramerica 215 Adelaide Street King & Wood Mallesons Allens Arthur Robinson Joint Venture Undisclosed Keppel iseek Communications King & Wood Mallesons Mike Madden Type of Deal Value Issuer/Borrower Lead managers/arrangers Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) Leveraged Acquisition Financing $3.8 billion Hologic Goldman Sachs Brown Rudnick Davis Polk & Wardwell Global Bond Offering $1.5 billion Province of British Columbia CIBC / HSBC / RBC / Scotia Davis Polk & Wardwell Senior Notes Offering $750 million Aetna Barclays / Citigroup / Credit Suisse / Merrill Lynch Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan, William Curran Secured Revolving Credit Facility $652 million NXP Morgan Stanley / Barclays Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Mollerus, Changsheng Song Construction Financing $300 million Stockbridge Real Estate JP Morgan Davis Polk & Wardwell Cahill Gordon & Reindel

Coverage of International Tax Review’s Tax & Transparency Forum, GE’s Chris Needham on split-payments, and why the UK’s obsession with tax is under attack were just three of the topics that dominated ITR Premium last week.

Type of treaty Country Country Date signed Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement Canada Serbia April 27 2012 Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement Bahrain South Korea May 2 2012

In recent years, the focus of taxpayer services from the Chinese tax authorities has gradually shifted.

The just-enacted Finance Act 2012 introduces some welcome measures for the Irish investment funds industry.

The OECD’s tax chief says the organisation is the standard setter when it comes to promoting tax information exchange and tackling tax avoidance, but it’s a bold claim to make when the standard it is advocating relies on a flawed model.