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Type of deal Valuer Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) M&A £699 million ($1.27 billion) Trinitybrook New Look Group Simmons & Simmons, London, Nick Cronkshaw, Darren Oswick Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, Jonathan Cooklin, Jill Gatehouse M&A £160 million ($291 million) UBS Laing & Cruickshank Investment Management Allen & Overy, London, Ian Carnochan Herbert Smith, London, Isaac Zailer, Michelle Williamson M&A $210 million Arch Chemicals Avecia agreed to sell its Biocides business Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, Michael Schler Dickson Minto, London, Gaynor McNair M&A $191 million Brunswick Corporation Genmar Industries agreed to sell Crestliner, Lowe Boats and Lund Boats Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, Lewis Steinberg, Humberto Reboredo Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York, Michael Kam, Larry Gelbfisch, Edward Kim M&A $360 million Ask Jeeves Interactive Search Holdings O'Melveny & Myers, Menlo Park, Robert Rizzi Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York, Helyn Goldstein M&A $1 billion Genzyme Corporation ILEX Oncology Ropes & Gray, Boston, Eric Elfman Fulbright & Jaworski, San Antonio, George Scofield M&A $660 million Credence Systems Corporation NPTest Holding Corporation Morrison & Foerster, Palo Alto, Ellen Robb Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, Michael Mollerus M&A $840 million The JM Smucker Company International Multifoods Corporation Jones Day, Atlanta, Rory Lyons; Chicago, Edward Purnell; Cleveland, Wade Wagatsuma, Nicole Stangler Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, John Steffen M&A £61 million ($110 million) Riverdance Acquisition, a subsidiary undertaking of Change Capital Partners Robert Dyas Weil Gotshal & Manges, London, Sarah Priestley Wragge & Co, Birmingham, Kevin Poole, Deborah Clarke, Neil Pearson M&A $1.35 billion White Mountains Insurance Group White Mountains Insurance Group agreed to buy the life and investments business of Safeco Corporation Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, Stephen Gordon, Sharon Mendelson Latham & Watkins, Chicago, Robert Goldman M&A $107 million Cerberus Capital Management Gilford Mills Schulte Roth & Zabel, New York, Kurt Rosell Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York, Stuart Goldring M&A $1.35 billion Teekay Shipping Corporation Naviera F. Tapias Uría & Menéndez, Madrid, Guillermo Canalejo Garrigues, Madrid, Ricardo Gómez, Ramón Tejada Type of deal Value Issuer Lead managers Adviser to Issuer Adviser to lead managers Share issue £400 million ($732 million) Nationwide Building Society Barclays Capital Clifford Chance, London, David Harkness, Kirsten O'Neill Linklaters, London, Charles Hellier, David Wilson Securitization refinancing £980 million ($1.8 billion) The Telereal Group Citigroup and Morgan Stanley Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, Michael Thompson, Peter Cosmetatos Allen & Overy, London, Mark Brailsford, Vicky Stone Securitization £869 million ($1.6 billion) Residential Mortgage Securities 17 Barclays Capital and WestLB AG, London Branch Linklaters, London, Martin Lynchehan Weil, Gotshal & Manges, London, James Norwood IPO ?831 million ($1.02 billion) eircom Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, Francis Sanderson, Jonathan Cooklin Slaughter and May, London, Graham Iversen, Celine Maassen Double notes issue ?475 million ($587 million) and $550 million Invensys Deutsche Bank Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, Rob Kent, Jill Gatehouse Linklaters, London, Michael Hardwick, Eloise Walker, Mathew Welsh

The Mexican government published the tax treaty with Australia and its protocol on February 13 2004. The treaty, signed on September 9 2002, became effective with respect to withholding taxes on dividends, interest and royalties for amounts paid or accredited on or after January 1 2004. The treaty's remaining provisions will be effective from July 1 2004.

International Tax Services

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has expanded its international tax practice with the hire on February 26 2004 of Mark Lange from McKenna, Long & Aldridge. Lange's practice focuses on transactional tax issues involving domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures, alliances, limited liability companies and other pass-through and venture capital entity transactions.

James Malone, formerly president and general counsel at New Power Holdings, has joined Winston & Strawn. Malone, formerly a senior partner at McDermott, Will & Emery and chairman of its tax controversy practice, began working as a tax partner at the firm's New York and Chicago offices on February 12 2004.

Ceteris, the transfer pricing boutique, has hired another transfer pricing economist from Ernst & Young in the US. David Reichow joined the firm as a vice president on March 22 2004. Reichow joins former Ernst & Young colleagues Sherif Assef and Michael Heimert. Heimert set up Ceteris in August 2003 to provide an alternative to the big four accounting firms' transfer pricing practices.

Philip Martin: wants to roll his sleeves up Philip Martin, deputy head of tax at UK retail group Marks & Spencer, left the company to join Dorsey & Whitney's growing litigation team in London in February 2004.