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The number of completed mutual agreement procedures is increasing among OECD countries, new statistics have revealed.

Significant progress has been made in increasing international tax cooperation and transparency over the past five months, but more work is needed, the OECD has warned.

An Indian high court has ruled that the purchase of software acts as the purchase of royalties and not the purchase of goods.

BNP Paribas, a leading international bank, has announced that it is to close all its offices that operate in countries that have been identified as partially-compliant tax jurisdictions.

The IRS Office of Chief Counsel has issued a generic legal advice memorandum (GLAM) to staff in New York relating to certain loan origination activities.

The threat of taking a transfer pricing dispute to court is a good bargaining tool for taxpayers in developing countries, a panel of transfer pricing specialists has said

International Tax Review's weekly round-up of tax agreements from around the world.

The Confederation of British Industry has repeated its call for a cut to the UK's corporate tax rate.

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Joint Venture £2.13 billion ($3.5 billion) British Land/Blackstone Group SJ Berwin Heather Corben (British Land) Simpson Thacher Bartlett (Blackstone Group) Acquisition Undisclosed Solera Holdings AUTOonline Hengeler Mueller Share Acquisition Undisclosed JCDecaux Wall AG Hengeler Mueller Ernst-Thomas Kraft Real Estate Undisclosed MACSF Triangle de l'Arche Fidal & Gide Loyrette Nouel Linklaters Edouard Chapellier & Aurelie Clementz Acquisition Undisclosed SPIE EI.WHS Gide Loyrette Nouel Anthony Davis, David Klass & Gerard Bracken Share Acquisition Undisclosed BAE Systems VT Group's shares in BVT Surface Fleet Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Sarah Falk & May Smith Real Estate Undisclosed Corpus Sireo Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz Michaela Engel Type of Deal Value Issuer/Borrower Lead managers/arrangers Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) Underwriting Agreement Undisclosed Huntington Bancshares Goldman Sachs Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz T Eiko Stange If you would like to raise the profile of your firm, please send deal information to Jack Grocott (jgrocott@euromoneyplc.com).

Companies are changing their transfer pricing structures to deal with the global economic downturn, both to accommodate changes in the business situation and adapting to extra pressure from tax authorities.