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Weil, Gotshal & Manges has lured Kimberly Blanchard away from Torys to join its New York office as a tax partner. Blanchard formerly spent 17 years in the Haythe & Curley New York tax practice, where she remained following its merger with Tory, Tory, Deslauriers and Binnington last year.

The UK-based law firm S J Berwin has furthered its European ambitions by luring a team of German lawyers from Baker & McKenzie. Two partners will join the firm to set up an office in Munich, and a third partner, Dr Frank Vogel, will join S J Berwin's Berlin office.

In tax terms, cyberspace is relatively unchartered territory for Latin America. Jorge A Gross, Nicasio del Castillo, Manuel Solano, Eduardo Pupo and German Jimenez of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Latin American Business Center take a look at regional developments

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Ashurst Morris Crisp acted for the Koninklijke Vopak group of companies in relation to its £310 million ($441 million) recommended offer for UK chemical distributors Ellis Everard plc.

Portugal is in the process of enacting changes aimed at equalizing its personal taxation regime, and making it a more attractive base for foreign investors. Fernando Brás, Ricardo Borges and Lisete Duarte, of Ernst and Young, Lisbon investigate

At KPMG, we understand the value of having a strong local presence in the countries where our clients do business. With offices in virtually every country in Latin America, KPMG's profess-ional roots are deep and our local tax knowledge is preeminent.

As reported in the June 2000 issue of International Tax Review, Germany's highest tax court recently rebutted attempts by the German tax authorities to overturn dividend stripping schemes. The decision addressed many issues of first impression in the dividend stripping area and received wide attention.

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The WTO has set up an arbitration panel to judge the EU''s claims for trade sanctions against the US, worth more than $4 billion, in their dispute over tax breaks for US exporters. The WTO said the arbitration will not begin until a WTO compliance panel has determined whether new US tax-relief provisions violate the international body''s subsidy rules. The US lost its appeal against a WTO dispute earlier this year, which ruled that tax breaks for exporters through offshore foreign sales corporations (FSCs) constituted an illegal export subsidy.