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Ben G. Anderson

The UK tax consultancy has hired Bernard Sweet as director of corporate tax from Deloitte & Touche. Sweet was director of the financial services tax practice at Deloitte & Touche for three years. His work advisory includes life and general insurance companies, unit trusts, asset management and brokers.

Mark Middleditch has joined Allen & Overy's London tax practice as a senior associate. Having been in the Norton Rose tax department for six years, he focuses on asset finance tax work including shipping, aviation, securitization and corporate finance.

Gesina van de Wetering will join Norton Rose in Amsterdam in January 2003 from De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek specializing in EU tax law as well as corporate income tax in relation to structured finance, capital markets, private equity, funds and M&A. Her clients include banks and Italian utility company Enel and she expects that several of them will follow her to Norton Rose.

Bruno Solle: Leaving BFL for Jeanet Associes French law firm Bureau Francis Léfèbvre (BFL) has lost two teams of lawyers (including four partners) to rival French firms. A team of six tax lawyers led by Renaud Streichenberger joined Bredin Prat in November and a four-lawyer team of M&A and tax lawyers is joining Jeantet Associes in January 2003. A tax associate has also left BFL for Clifford Chance. Traditionally BFL has a reputation for retaining its lawyers and the departure of so many lawyers within such a short time frame is surprising.

Type of deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) merger undisclosed Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, West Indies Holdings Barclays Caribbean Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, Jonathan Cooklin, Sebastian Lawson-Foia Clifford Chance, London, Douglas French disposal $1.5 billion State Street parts of Deutsche Bank's global securities services business Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, New York, Eiko Stange, Joshua Holmes; Linklaters, London, Liz Conway, Conor Brindley; Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson Shearman & Sterling, New York, Peter Lyons; London, Michael McGowan, Iain Scoon, John Peterson, Esther Jeapes; Munich, Gottfried Breuninger, Arnd Weissgerber acquisition $1.16 billion LW Investments (Barclay Brothers) Littlewoods Lovells, London, Daniel Friel, Mathew Oliver, Philip Harle Herbert Smith, London, Howard Murray, Rob Young acquisition $14 billion HSBC Holdings Household International Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, New York, Yaron Reich, David Arroyo; Norton Rose, London, Chris Norfolk Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, New York, Jared Rusman, Joshua Holmes acquisition $1.25 billion NBC Bravo owned by Cablevision Systems. In return for NBC's ownership of Cablevision and Rainbow Media. MGM also sold its 20% interest in Bravo to NBC. Shearman & Sterling, New York, Washington, Laurence Bambino, Edward Park Sullivan & Cromwell, New York, William Indoe, Andrew Mason, John Sweet; Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson advised MGM, New York, Joel Scharfstein acquisition £900 million ($1.43 billion) Argos Homebase Group, owned by Permira Funds Linklaters, London, Guy Brannan, Stephen Pevsner Clifford Chance, London, James Plummer merger £1.25 billion ($1.99 billion) Logica CMG Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, Francis Sandison, Charlotte Jones Linklaters, London, Victoria Garton, Mark Kingstone disposal undisclosed Bain Capital SigmaKalon (paints group of TotalFinaElf) Ashurst Morris Crisp, Paris, Thomas Forschbach, Landwell & Associes Freshfields, Paris, Antoine Colonna D'Istria; London, Francis Sandison leveraged buy-out/disposal $1.7 billion Bain Capital Partners; Thomas H Lee Partners Houghton Mifflin owned by Vivendi Universal Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York, Gary Mandel; London, Meredith Jones Weil Gotshal & Manges, New York, Kimberly Blanchard acquisition £1.4 billion ($2.24 billion) Powergen TXU Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, Colin Hargreaves, Caspar Fox Herbert Smith, London, Neil Warriner, Derek Hill, Nikol Davies, Maxim Sokov

Under the direction of Manuel Solano, Ernst & Young's International Tax Services Latin America Network dominates the industry. Our experience in advising clients, combined with our extensive knowledge of Latin American tax systems, is unparalleled. We understand the diversity of countries in the region and the cultural singularities of each jurisdiction.

The UK's pre-Budget report introduces some key changes in the way the Inland Revenue determines permanent establishments and how it calculates stamp duty. Gary Richards of Weil Gotshal & Manges works out what it all means for business

Changes to the employee benefit trust scheme announced in the UK pre-budget report could cost London’s financial community hundreds of millions of dollars