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  • The British utility National Grid is to acquire Niagara Mohawk Holdings, the second-biggest energy company in New York State, for $3 billion cash and $5 billion in assumed debt.
  • Time Warner Telecom has executed a purchase agreement to acquire all the assets of GST Telecommunications Inc. The deal is worth $690 million, including the payment of up to $50 million of GST's transaction expenses.
  • Lovells in London is advising Baltimore Technologies Plc on the £702 million ($1.02 billion) acquisition of Content Technologies and a proposed placing of ordinary shares. Baltimore is a specialist provider of information security solutions for use in e-commerce transaction and computer networks. Content Technologies develops and sells software that provides policy-based security for emails and helps manage email content. The acquisition is conditional on shareholder approval.
  • Four UK building societies that converted to banks in the late 1990s claimed tax deductions for the costs of converting. The Inland Revenue disputed this, but the Special Commissioners of Tax found in the building societies’ favour. Hartley Foster of Clifford Chance reports
  • Cautious optimism for foreign investors in Russia follows radical efforts by the government to level the playing field for business. In the second of two articles, Robert Fort of Deloitte & Touche, Moscow reports on Russia’s most recent changes
  • For many years, importers have struggled to reconcile the divergent tax and Customs valuation rules concerning merchandise imported from related parties. Most importers use the transfer prices determined under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) section 482 to set Customs values without any in-depth consideration of the Customs valuation methodologies. This approach has left many importers exposed to Customs audits, investigations and penalties.
  • Australia introduced capital gains tax in 1985, but the question of how its provisions interact with those in tax treaties has never been put to the test. Ian Dinnison, KPMG Melbourne looks at a new draft ruling from the Australian Taxation Office
  • US technology firm, Hewlett-Packard, is in talks to buy the consultancy division of big five accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. The discussions value PwC's consultancy division at around $18 billion.
  • Linklaters has designed an extranet service to open up communication between the law firm and its clients. The service, called clients@linklaters, is unlike services provided by other firms, and differs from Linklaters' own Blue Flag project, which offers specific advice on particular products.
  • UK-based law firm Lovells has announced that it is to open two new offices in Italy. The practices will be based in Rome and Milan, with the Milan office focusing primarily on corporate and financial work, and Rome on administrative, regulatory and governmental matters.