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  • Wells Fargo turns to Sullivan & Cromwell
    Norwest, the Minneapolis-based bank, has made an agreed bid to buy San Francisco-based Wells Fargo, in a $31 billion stock swap.
    June 30 1998
  • Monsanto consults Arnold & Porter
    US pharmaceutical groups Monsanto and American Home Products has announced a merger worth $34 billion. American Home Products will have a 65% stake in the new company. Annual sales will be about $3 billion a year.
    June 30 1998
  • SPAIN FURTHER EXTENDS THE SCOPE OF EU PARENT-SUBSIDIARY DIRECTIVE
    Since the early 1990s, non-resident corporate income taxpayers in Spain have benefitted from important domestic law exemptions pertaining to different types of income from Spanish sources.
    June 30 1998
  • Davis Polk works on $1.6 billion IPO
    Van Kampen American Capital Senior Income Trust, has made a $1.6 billion initial public offering, the second-largest closed-end offering in history.
    June 30 1998
  • Stone Container consults Sidley & Austin
    Jefferson Smurfit Corporation of St. Louis, US is to merge with Stone Container of Chicago. The merger is worth approximately $2 billion and will create one of the world's largest paperboard and paper packaging companies. It will be known as Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation and will be worth approximately $11 billion.
    June 30 1998
  • PPG chooses Macfarlanes
    US paint maker PPG Industries has agreed to purchase two coatings businesses from UK chemicals company Courtaulds. The deal is worth approximately £200 million ($320 million). PPG had been bidding against Dutch group Akzo Nobel for control of the whole of Courtaulds. Akzo Nobel is now expected to take control of the remaining areas of Courtauld's businesses (see International Tax Review June 1998, page 6).
    June 30 1998
  • Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett advises Seagram
    Canadian drinks and entertainment group Seagram has agreed to acquire Polygram, the Dutch music and film company for $10.6 billion. Seagram will buy 75% of PolyGram from Philips, the Dutch electronics company, and the remaining 25% that is in public issue. The acquisition will be partly financed by the sale of Tropicana, Seagram's fruit juice subsidiary.
    June 30 1998
  • MAJOR LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL CHANGES
    During the last few months there have been a number of changes to the Russian tax law, arising from changes to the legislation and from judicial decisions. The major changes are outlined below.
    June 30 1998
  • FOREIGN ASSET REPORTING
    Several new international reporting initiatives have been enacted following Canada's 1995 federal budget. These include expanded reporting rules for foreign affiliates, and new reporting requirements in respect of contributions to or distributions from non-resident trusts.
    June 30 1998
  • Exploring the taxation of oil and gas (part four)
    The final part of ITR’s survey brings together traditional and emerging oil and gas locations. By Mark Campbell, Mike Kubena and Varinder Matharu of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Baku and Moscow, and Michael Thompson of Freshfields, London
    June 30 1998
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