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Sixth VAT Directive – Supply of services relating to insurance transactions – Insurance brokers and insurance agents.

Complex accounting rules are taking up more and more time. Andreas Staubli and Fabio Dell'Anna of PricewaterhouseCoopers say that more efficient tax strategies would help Swiss companies

Changes in tax legislation strengthen Switzerland's competitiveness, say Andrin Waldburger and Marcel Widrig of PricewaterhouseCoopers

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition $6 billion International Paper Weyerhaeuser Debevoise & Plimpton, Peter Furci Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Andrew Needham Acquisition $4 billion Reed Elsevier ChoicePoint Sullivan & Cromwell Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Joshua Holmes Acquisition $3.7 billion First Reserve Corporation CHC Helicopter Corporation Slaughter and May, Gareth Miles & Tim Woodthorpe, Blake, Cassels & Graydon, Jeffrey Trossman, Paul Stepak DLA Piper, David Buss Merger $3.1 billion Google DoubleClick Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Steve Todrys Acquisition ?1.8 billion ($2.7 billion) Scottish and Southern Energy Airtricity Holdings A& L Goodbody, Andrew Quinn, KPMG UK, Russell Hills Arthur Cox, Fintan Clancy, KPMG Ireland, Mike Hayes Acquisition $2.4 billion Hellman & Friedman Getty Images Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Katharine Moir, Steve Todrys & Ben Applestein Weil Gotshal & Manges, Helyn Goldstein Merger $2.3 billion WebMD Health HLTH Cahill Gordon & Reindel, L. Howard Adams & Sam Lichtman O'Melveny & Myers, Robert Blashek & Robert Fisher Acquisition £545 million ($1.1 billion) Autogrill BAA's World Duty Free duty-free retail outlets Lovells, Kevin Ashman Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Acquisition $850 million AOL Bebo Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Helyn Goldstein, Sharon Shachar & Jane Scobie Acquisition $745 million Barclays Bank Expobank Clifford Chance, Alexander Anichkin Acquisition ?320 million ($481 million) Jerónimo Martins Plus Uría Menéndez, Filipe Romão & Miguel Agrellos, Hengeler Mueller, Martin Klein, Soltysinski Kawecki & Szlezak, Piotr Andrzejak Acquisition $420 million Galderma Pharma CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals Debevoise & Plimpton, Peter Furci Milbank Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Russell Kestenbaum Acquisition $293 million JPMorgan Bear Stearns Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Jodi Schwartz & Joshua Holmes Acquisition $268 million UGI Utilities PPL Corporation Simpson Thacher, Robert Holo & Peter Rosen Merger $219 million Visant Phoenix Color Simpson Thacher, Robert Holo & Peter Rosen Acquisition $195 million Pfizer Encysive Pharmaceuticals Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Andrew Gaines Covington & Burling, Rob Heller & Guy Dingley Acquisition $150 million NBC Universal NDTV White & Case, Peita Menon, James Meakin, Luthra & Luthra, Vikas Srivastava, Sundeep Dudeja & S.R. Pattnaik, KPMG Acquisition £42 million ($82.6 million) Sanlam Principal Investment Holdings Taylor Wessing, Peter Jackson & Omleen Ajimal Acquisition ?46 million ($72 million) Affiliated Computer Services sds business services Ashurst, Matthias Kuhn P+P Pöllath + Partner Acquisition $71.3 million PT Carrefour Indonesia PT Alfa Retailindo Milbank Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Acquisition ?16.2 million ($24.5 million) Imperial Tobacco Group Altadis Uría Menéndez, Rafael Garcia Llaneza Acquisition $17 million Yellow Pages Group TBayTel Ogilvy Renault, Joel Boucher Acquisition £2.1 million ($4.2 million) British American Tobacco Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni Herbert Smith, Isaac Zailer PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kromann Reumert Acquisition Undisclosed Bridgepoint Capital Pret A Manger Travers Smith, Kathleen Russ KPMG, Michelle Quest, Adrian Crouch, Simon Page, Edwin Huang, Garry O'Neill, Daniel Grant Acquisition Undisclosed Elekta CMSI Holdings Shearman & Sterling, Michael Sunwoo Acquisition Undisclosed Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund Sony Berlin's Sony Centre Hengeler Mueller, Martin Klein Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Christian Ruoff & Martin Mues Acquisition Undisclosed Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Fyfe Group Pinsent Masons, Liz Morgan Acquisition Undisclosed Suez and Gaz de France Goldman Sachs and Cargill (sale of Teesside Power) Chadbourne & Parke Ashurst, Richard Palmer & Nicholas Gardner Acquisition Undisclosed Rewe Group Tengelmann Group Shearman & Sterling, Johannes Frey & Hendrik Jürging Acquisition Undisclosed Vivartia Nonni's Food Company Shearman & Sterling, Don Lonczak & Patrick Valenti Acquisition Undisclosed IBM Encentuate Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Andrew Needham, J. Leonard Teti & Joanne Lee Type of Deal Value Issuer/borrower Lead managers/arrangers Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) IPO $46.3 million ATA Merrill Lynch Davis Polk & Wardwell, William Weigel & Joshua Ruland Simpson Thacher, Rob Holo, Benjamin Applestein & Wei Cui

Thailand's government has launched a broad-based programme to attract foreign investment. A key element in the package is a proposal to cut corporate taxes by five percentage points to 25% over the next three years.

Stacy Choong, a director in the tax group of Drew & Napier in Singapore, is leaving the firm in June to join Rajah & Tann in the same city.

Caplin & Drysdale has recruited John Breen. He was head of branch six of the Chief Counsel's Office at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Joanna Faith uncovers some alarming trends for businesses seeking to recruit able tax people

Kevin Valenzia, Mirko Rapa and Nadia Cassar of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Malta report on the business environment in the Mediterranean state

Japan made substantial changes to taxation of M&A transactions in the 2008 tax reform. However, Tobias Lintvelt, Koichi Sekiya and Hiroyuki Nishida of Shin Nihon Ernst & Young believe the tax authorities need to go further to increase Japan's appeal to investors