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Analysis of Home Concrete’s US Supreme Court victory, why the European Parliament is backing an amended CCCTB and what the French presidential race means for corporate taxes were just three of the headlines that dominated ITR Premium last week.

TYPE OF DEAL VALUE ACQUIRER TARGET ADVISER TO ACQUIRER (TAX) ADVISER TO TARGET (TAX) Acquisition $11.85 billion Nestlé Pfizer (Infant Nutrition) Mayer Brown / King & Wood Mallesons Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom / Clifford Chance / DLA Piper Acquisition $4.1 billion Fresenius Rhön-Klinikum Hengeler Mueller - Mathias Link Acquisition $1.8 billion Suburban Propane Inergy Evercore Greenhill Acquisition $1.25 billion Veritas Capital Thomson Reuters (Healthcare) Sullivan & Cromwell - David Spitzer Covington & Burling Acquisition $617 million IAMGOLD Trelawney Mining Fasken Martineau DuMoulin Stikeman Elliott - Dean Kraus, John O'Connor Acquisition $307 million Chalco Winsway Davis Polk & Wardwell Acquisition $199 million Korea Panama Mining Minera Panama (Inmet Mining) Stikeman Elliott Torys Share Repurchase $150 million Primerica Warburg Pincus Greenhill Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz TYPE OF DEAL VALUE ISSUER / BORROWER LEAD MANAGERS / ARRANGERS ADVISER TO ISSUER / BORROWER ADVISER TO LEAD MANAGERS Convertible Senior Notes Offering $600 million TIBCO Software Morgan Stanley / J.P. Morgan Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg Secondary Share Offering $410 million Qualicorp Credit Suisse / Merrill Lynch / Bradesco / Goldman Sachs Latham & Watkins / Mattos Filho Davis Polk & Wardwell - Neil Barr, Arie Rubenstein Initial Public Offering $264 million Splunk Morgan Stanley / Credit Suisse / J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Juelle Gomes, Una Au Senior Notes Offering $150 million Wabash National Morgan Stanley / Wells Fargo Hogan Lovells Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Yuliya Epifantseva

International law firm Watson, Farley & Williams has promoted one of its London tax lawyers, Richard Stephens, to partner.

America's leading female lawyers descended on New York's Essex House last night to celebrate Euromoney Legal Media Group's inaugural Americas Women in Business Law Awards.

In an exclusive interview, Gert Müller-Gatermann, former Director General for International Taxation at the German Ministry of Finance gives ITR Premium the inside line on his time as an official and what the future holds for German and European tax policy.

The shortlist for the second annual Euromoney Legal Media Group Europe Women in Business Law Awards has now been published.

A higher tax expense contributed to a fall in Ford Motor Company’s net income in the first quarter of the year.

Type of Agreement Country Country Date Signed Tax Information Exchange Agreement Bermuda Italy April 23 2012 Tax Information Exchange Agreement Bermuda Malaysia April 23 2012 Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement Hong Kong Malaysia April 25 2012

TYPE OF DEAL VALUE ACQUIRER TARGET ADVISER TO ACQUIRER (TAX) ADVISER TO TARGET (TAX) Acquisition $11.85 billion Nestlé Pfizer (Infant Nutrition) Mayer Brown / King & Wood Mallesons Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom / Clifford Chance / DLA Piper Acquisition $4.1 billion Fresenius Rhön-Klinikum Hengeler Mueller - Mathias Link Acquisition $1.8 billion Suburban Propane Inergy Evercore Greenhill Acquisition $1.25 billion Veritas Capital Thomson Reuters (Healthcare) Sullivan & Cromwell - David Spitzer Covington & Burling Acquisition $617 million IAMGOLD Trelawney Mining Fasken Martineau DuMoulin Stikeman Elliott - Dean Kraus, John O'Connor Acquisition $307 million Chalco Winsway Davis Polk & Wardwell Acquisition $199 million Korea Panama Mining Minera Panama (Inmet Mining) Stikeman Elliott Torys Share Repurchase $150 million Primerica Warburg Pincus Greenhill Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz TYPE OF DEAL VALUE ISSUER / BORROWER LEAD MANAGERS / ARRANGERS ADVISER TO ISSUER / BORROWER ADVISER TO LEAD MANAGERS Convertible Senior Notes Offering $600 million TIBCO Software Morgan Stanley / J.P. Morgan Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg Secondary Share Offering $410 million Qualicorp Credit Suisse / Merrill Lynch / Bradesco / Goldman Sachs Latham & Watkins / Mattos Filho Davis Polk & Wardwell - Neil Barr, Arie Rubenstein Initial Public Offering $264 million Splunk Morgan Stanley / Credit Suisse / J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Juelle Gomes, Una Au Senior Notes Offering $150 million Wabash National Morgan Stanley / Wells Fargo Hogan Lovells Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Yuliya Epifantseva

UK companies can expect refunds of stamp duty reserve tax (SDRT) paid on the transfer of shares outside the EU for capital raising purposes, after HMRC announced it will not seek permission to appeal the First-tier Tax Tribunal’s decision in the HSBC case.