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Type of deal Valuer Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition attempt €35 billion ($47.8 billlion) Porsche (Germany) Volkswagen (Germany) Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Wilfried Schaefer, Germany) Acquisition €2.4 billion ($3.3 billion) Charterhouse Capital Partners (UK) ista International (Germany) KPMG (Anneli Collins, UK; Christian Jänisch, Lars Behrendt, Germany) Freshfields Bruckhause Deringer (Stephan Eilers, Germany) Ernst & Young (Klaus Krämer-Erkrath, Michael Vogel, Germany) Acquisition £242.5 million ($486 million) Lupus Capital (UK) The Laird Group (Security Systems division) (UK) Slaughter and May (William Watson, Paul Fahy, UK) Ashurst (John Watson, Nicholas Gardner, Fellicity Alcindor, UK) Acquisition €11 billion ($14.5 billion) Schering Plough (US) Akzo Nobel (Organon BioSciences division)(The Netherlands) Allen & Overy (Olaf van der Donk, the Netherlands) De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (Michiel Sundeman, the Netherlands) Acquisition €1.3 billion ($1.8 billion) Cinven (UK) Phadia Holding (France) KPMG (Mathew Macauley, Gill Slater, Arnout Haeser, Neil O'Brien, Ed Murphy, UK; Per Snellman, Carina Terinus, Sweden; Birgit Hoefer, Claudia Belser, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Melanie Malsbury, UK) Acquisition £950 million ($1.9 billion) Cinven (UK) Gondola Holdings (UK) Mathew Macauley, Arnout Haeser, Neil O'Brien, Ed Murphy, Jo Quelch, Amanda Allan, UK; Birgit Hoefer, Claudia Belser, Luxembourg) PricewaterhouseCoopers Acquisition £615 million ($1.2 billion) EQT (Sweden) Scandic (Sweden) KPMG (Jan Kallqvist, Carina Terenius, Jonas Henriksson, Per Degerman, Bjorn Johansson, Maria Nielsen, Sweden) Acquisition C$804 million ($1.6 billion) Caxton-Iseman Capital (UK) KCP (Canada) Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison (US), Blake Cassels & Graydon (Canada) Goodmans (Carrie Smit, Stacey Long, Canada) Acquisition £96 million ($192 million) Tragus Group (UK) La Tasca (UK) Ashurst (Patricia Allen, UK) Dickson Minto (UK) Acquisition €180 million ($2464 million) Private Equity Partners (Italy), Mid Equity Partners Ferdinando Giordano (Italy) Ashurst (Paola Flora, Italy) Studio Tosettto, Weigmann e Associati (Andrea Bernardini, Federico Restano, Italy) Acquisition undisclosed JS&P Towry Law (UK) Baker Tilly Financial Services (International) Slaughter and May (Graham Iversen, Timothy Woodthorpe, UK) Acquisition $315 million Global Aero Logistics (UK) World Air Holdings (US) Cravath, Swaine & Moore (Michael Schler, Leonard Teti, US) Powell Goldstein (US) Acquisition £740 million ($1. 5 billion) Management buy-out Jupiter (UK) Norton Rose (UK) Clifford Chance (David Harkness, Helen Corner, UK) Acquisition £588m ($1.2 billion) Consortium led by ABN Amro (the Netherlands) Corey Environmental (UK) PricewaterhouseCoopers KPMG (Iain Clarke, David Kilshaw, Jo Quelch, UK)Acquisition €2 billion ($2.73 billion) Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank (Germany) UniCredit Banca Mobiliare (Italy) Norton Rose (Antonello Lupo, Fabio Chiarenza, Francesco Nardacchione, UK) In-house counsel Type of deal Value Issuer/Borrower Lead managers/ lenders Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) Securitisation financing $182.5 million Puma Capital (Germany) Dresdner Kleinwort (Germany) Maples and Calder (Cayman Islands) Norton Rose (Matt Hodkin, UK), Lovells IPO £700 million ($1.4 billion) 3i Infrastructure (UK) Citigroup Global Capital Markets (US) Slaughter and May (Steve Edge, Abigail McGregor) Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Formation of investment fund €2.25 billion (S3.1 billion) n/a Intermediate Capital Group n/a Ashurst (Ian Johnson, Alastair Ladkin, UK)

S Madhavan and Sachin Menon of PricewaterhouseCoopers outline India's efforts to simplify and clarify its convoluted indirect tax system

As international business in India grows, legislators and courts are struggling to keep pace. Ganesh Raj of Ernst & Young highlights recent tax controversies that reflect the muddled state of international tax in India

Jens-Uwe Hinder has joined the Berlin office of Hogan & Hartson as a partner. Hinder was head of Hammonds' tax practice in Germany since 2002. His practice covers real estate, M&A, funds and transfer pricing.

Peter Elias has joined the US law firm from Foley & Lardner. Elias specialises in the tax aspects of joint ventures, M&A, and cross-border tax issues.

The Scottish National Party has said that it would introduce a 20% tax rate if Scotland, now part of the UK, became independent. Businesses in Scotland are now taxed at the UK rate of 30%, which will fall to 28% in April 2007.

Randy Robason will become managing partner of the accounting firm's Dallas office. Robason was previously the tax practice leader for the south-east region of the US.

Hailed as one of the most important developments in tax investigations for many years, a new offshore disclosure facility is expected to bring in billions of pounds in revenue to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

International Tax Review's 2007 survey of the European, Middle Eastern, and African tax markets will go online next week.

The input of senior officials from the US, UK and German governments, the European Commission and a former US assistant secretary for tax policy ensured that the government panel at the annual ABA/IBA tax planning strategies meeting in Frankfurt on April 19 and 20 would be a lively one.