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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

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

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

Delegates at International Tax Review’s inaugural Tax and Transparency Forum heard how taking the initiative is the most important step to take when it comes to tax transparency and corporate social responsibility (CSR).

The rejection by an Advocate General of the ECJ of the UK's defence of its group tax relief rules does not augur well for Britain for when the court's judgment comes out later this year.

The South Korean Parliament has passed an emissions trading scheme (ETS) to be introduced in 2015, and Australian climate change campaigners say this strengthens the possibility of forming a regional trading coalition.

An ardent tax justice campaigner, an ex-cabinet minister and representatives from two of the largest companies in the extractive industry debated the merits of country-by-country reporting (CBCR) at International Tax Review’s Tax and Transparency Forum on Wednesday and, unsurprisingly, the concept provoked mixed reactions.

The executive director of the leading campaign organisation for tax justice believes the world must make more progress on making automatic exchange of information (EoI) between tax authorities the international standard in the fight against tax evasion.

The Indian Ministry of Finance has set up an advisory group for international taxation and transfer pricing to reduce litigation and bring certainty for taxpayers operating in India.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has recently revised the guidance in its manuals regarding revisions to claims for UK group loss relief following mutual agreement procedure (MAP) settlements.