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  • Telewest Communications, the UK's second-largest cable company, has agreed a £649 million ($1 billion) bid for General Cable, the UK's sixth-largest cable company.
  • Imperial Tobacco has acquired the Douwe Egberts Van Nelle tobacco business from the Sara Lee group for £652 million ($1billion).
  • Senior partners from Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand met in New York in April this year, to discuss strategy proposals for a merged firm. One proposal involves hiring 1,000 new members of staff every week for the next five years.
  • ICI is to sell Crosfield, its worldwide silicas and catalysts business, to WR Grace and Company for $455 million.
  • US banks Banc One and First Chicago NBD have agreed to a merger valued at $72 billion.
  • British Gas has completed the sale of its Pipeline Integrity International business to companies formed by Mercury Asset Management Private Equity for £90 million ($147 million). Pipeline Integrity International provides high resolution inspection and maintenance services for oil, gas and chemical pipelines. It works in more than 30 companies.
  • Citicorp and Travelers Group are to merge in a transaction worth $166 billion, which will create the world's largest financial services company. The new company will be called Citigroup Inc. The deal calls for Citicorp shareholders to exchange each of their shares for 2.5 shares of Citigroup in a tax-free exchange. Travelers shareholders will retain their existing shares. The shareholders of each company will own 50% of the combined enterprise.
  • Bowater, the US paper products group, has offered $3.5 billion to buy Avenor, the Canadian forest products manufacturer.
  • Since Norway was last covered in International Tax Review (see International Tax Review March 1998, pg 48), an interesting amendment has been made to the statutory legislation in the field of international taxation.
  • Spanish tax legislation provides for various territorially-based special tax regimes, which in practice produce variations in the Spanish general tax regime. These special tax regimes, whose origins lie in historical considerations recognized and protected by the Spanish Constitution, specifically apply in the Basque Country's Ancient Territories (ie Alava, Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya) and in the Navarre Autonomous Community.