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TYPE OF DEAL VALUE ACQUIRER TARGET ADVISER TO ACQUIRER (TAX) ADVISER TO TARGET (TAX) Acquisition $3.6 billion Outokumpu Inoxum Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Hengeler Mueller - Stefanie Beinert, Martin Klein Acquisition $3.9 billion ABB Thomas & Betts Kirkland & Ellis Davis Polk & Wardwell Acquisition $1.5 billion Permira Genesys Clifford Chance / Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Acquisition $1.16 billion Amgen Micromet Sullivan & Cromwell - Ronald Creamer Cooley Acquisition $427 million Hudson's Bay Lord & Taylor Holdings Stikeman Elliott - Dean Kraus, Jonathan Willson Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison Acquisition $108 million Dundee 5001 Yonge Street Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt Stikeman Elliott TYPE OF DEAL VALUE ISSUER / BORROWER LEAD MANAGERS / ARRANGERS ADVISER TO ISSUER / BORROWER (TAX) ADVISER TO LEAD MANAGERS (TAX) Loan Agreement $10.5 billion Schaeffler AG BNP Paribas / Commerzbank / Deutsche Bank / HSBC / JP Morgan / LBBW / RBS / UniCredit Hengeler Mueller Notes Offering $800 million CEVA Credit Suisse / Deutsche Bank / Goldman Sachs / JP Morgan / Morgan Stanley / UBS / Apollo Global Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan, Changsheng Song / Linklaters Debut Global Offering $600 million Grupo Aval Goldman Sachs / JP Morgan Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan, Juelle Gomes Simpson Thacher & Bartlett / Gómez-Pinzón Zuleta Subordinated Notes Offering $500 million AEGON Merrill Lynch / Citigroup / Morgan Stanley / Wells Fargo Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton, Adam Perry Incremental Revolving Credit Facility $131.5 million CEVA Credit Suisse Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Davis Polk & Wardwell

Dwight Mersereau has become a partner of McDermott Will & Emery’s US and international tax practice group, based in Washington, DC. He was previously with Miller & Chevalier.

Janusz Fiszer has joined PwC in Poland, becoming a partner in the integrated tax and legal practice.

When it comes to the Canadian general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR), it could be said that the difference between acceptable and unacceptable tax planning is in the eyes of the beholder.

TYPE OF AGREEMENT COUNTRY COUNTRY DATE SIGNED Tax Information Exchange Agreement San Marino South Africa Entered into force January 28 2012 Tax Information Exchange Agreement Gibraltar South Africa February 2 2012

Romanian law firm Musat & Asociatii has made Ionut Bohâlteanu a partner.

Companies importing or exporting to Mexico must use an electronic reporting system to file Customs information from March 1 2012.

Taxpayers are angry over Germany’s unfair enforcement of interest on old VAT errors even when there has never been any loss to the exchequer. International Tax Review investigates.

The imposition of harsh penalties against General Electric (GE) provides a stark warning to companies using tax shelters in the US.

The Portuguese tax authority has turned its transfer pricing focus to residual pricing methods, meaning companies should stop using them if they want to save money.