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

PwC US has hired an adviser with 10 years experience at the IRS and the Treasury Department as a principal in its international tax services practice.

The UK tax system has come under attack from taxpayers, protest groups and the general public alike. But the easy headlines of companies not contributing enough do not always depict an accurate representation of how things really are.

Linklaters strengthened its US tax practice with the addition of two new partners today.

The Chilean government has proposed a number of tax reform measures, including a corporate tax hike.

SAB Miller told ministers at the UK’s International Development Committee (IDC) that capacity building is essential if developing countries are to collect the right amount of tax but the “transparency drive to achieve a right outcome is, we believe, doomed”.

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.

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

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

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