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The OECD believes the reform of property taxes, rather than any changes to corporate taxation, would help the New Zealand economy.

Taxpayers will get an opportunity to have their say on the interpretation of the term beneficial owner in the OECD Model Tax Convention.

Law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel has announced that, effective April 1, David Klass has been made into a local partner. He is based in Gide’s London tax practice.

Sophie Jouniaux, one of Baker & McKenzie's tax partners in Paris, moved to the firm's Abu Dhabi office this month for two years. She will have a Gulf-wide remit to advise clients on transactional tax and other tax matters .

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition $6.8 billion Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd Cephalon Inc Kirkland & Ellis Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Acquisition $645 million Silver Lake Partners and Silver Lake Sumeru SMART Modular Technologies Inc Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Ryan LaRosa Acquisition $600 million Aetna Inc Prodigy Health Group Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan, William Curran Merger Undisclosed Exelon Constellation Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom - Louis Freeman Kirkland & Ellis Acquisition Undiclosed EOS Group Credirec Bredin Prat - Yves Rutschmann, Magali Buchert Paul Hastings Type of Deal Value Issuer/Borrower Lead managers/arrangers Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) SEC-registered US Shelf facility $5 billion Abbey National Treasury Services plc Santander UK plc Slaughter & May - Sara Luder, James Wood Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Senior notes offering $2.5 billion Abbey National Treasury Services plc Credit Suisse; JP Morgan; Santander; UBS Slaughter & May - Sara Luder, James Wood Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Senior secured credit facility $1.855 billion C-BASS (Credit-Based Asset Servicing and Securitisation) JP Morgan Chase Bank Hunton & Williams Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell, Craig Phillips, Sarah Joy Senior notes offering $945 million CMA CGM BNP Paribas; Citi; Deutsche Bank; Natixis; Société Générale Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Bredin Prat - Julien Gayral, Timur Celik Initial public offering $872 million Air Lease Corporation JP Morgan Securities; Credit Suisse Securities Munger, Tolles & Olson Davis Polk & Wardwell - Mary Conway, William Weigel, Kerry Price SEC-registered block trade $450 million Citadel Equity Fund (E*TRADE Financial Corporation) Morgan Stanley & Co Inc Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Ryan LaRosa Simpson Thacher & Bartlett SEC-registered offering $400 million ORIX Corporation Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith; Morgan Stanley; UBS; Nomura; Citigroup Davis Polk & Wardwell - John Paton, Sarah Joy Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Initial public offering $384 million ING Emerging Markets High Dividend Equity Fund Morgan Stanley; Citigroup; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith; UBS; Wells Fargo; Ameriprise Dechert Davis Polk & Wardwell - Mary Conway, Kay Ng Initial public offering $106 million Sagent Pharmaceuticals Inc Morgan Stanley; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith; Jefferies & Company Kirkland & Ellis Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Farber, Joshua Ruland

Kan has confirmed that reconsideration is possible

Vispi Patel and Rajesh Athavale of Vispi T Patel & Associates run through the highlights of this year’s Indian budget and explain that the government is intent in making significant changes despite introducing a complete new tax law in less than 12 months time.

Ian Farmer The Australian federal government's proposed introduction from July 1 2012 of a profits-based, resource rent tax on Australian iron ore and coal mining projects, in combination with an extension of the existing petroleum resource rent tax to all Australian oil and gas projects, has now gathered further momentum.

Sead Dado Salkovic Slobodan Mihajlovic In an attempt to attract more foreign investment and to increase the capacity of its overall economy, the parliament of the Brcko district adopted on December 15 2010 a new corporate tax law. The law entered into legal force on January 1 2011.

Matthew Houchens will become a principal in KPMG's international corporate services practice in Chicago. Houchens was formerly a partner at Mayer Brown.