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  • UK moves to close M&A tax loophole
    The UK Inland Revenue has acted to close what it sees as a loophole in tax law that allows companies involved in international mergers and acquisitions to avoid a 1.5% tax. A number of recent transactions, including the BP/Amoco merger, the Astra/Zeneca merger and the Vodafone/Airtouch deal, were structured to benefit from an exemption which allowed the companies to avoid the 1.5% stamp duty reserve tax.
    March 01 1999
  • Clinton stuns with tough budget
    Bill Clinton’s latest budget includes numerous international tax proposals and tax shelter provisions. Hal Hicks, David Benson, Margie Rollinson, and Peg O’Connor of Ernst & Young in Washington DC analyze the budget, and explain court and treaty developments
    March 01 1999
  • Ernst & Young scoops leading Canadian lawyer
    They’ve done it again. Less than two years after recruiting Robert Couzin from Stikeman, Elliott, the Canadian office of Ernst & Young has swiped another leading tax partner from a law firm. This time the partner in question is Ron Sirkis who until this month was head of tax at Bennett Jones Verchere.
    March 01 1999
  • Germany tightens ratio structure
    Despite initial hopes that the German reforms would leave thin capitalization untouched, it looks likely that the debt-to-equity ratios will be changed. Norbert Meister, of Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Löber, analyzes the implications for multinationals
    March 01 1999
  • Davis Polk ensures success
    New York firm Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising New Jersey-based insurer Chubb Corporation in its acquisition of Executive Risk, a US insurance company. The transaction is valued at $850 million.
    March 01 1999
  • Slaughter & May advises Abbey National
    UK firm Slaughter & May advised the Abbey National Group on the acquisition of three finance businesses from NatWest Group.
    March 01 1999
  • Norton Rose advises on AXA deal
    Norton Rose in London is advising French insurance company AXA on the acquisition of UK insurers Guardian Royal Exchange. The deal is valued at $5.6 billion.
    March 01 1999
  • Airtouch seeks IRS ruling on Vodafone merger
    Airtouch Communications Inc is seeking a ruling from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) due to fears that their $58 billion merger with Vodafone will not satisfy a requirement for tax-free transactions.
    March 01 1999
  • Canada seeks brighter APA future
    The Canadian APA programme has had a rocky start since it was established in the early 1990s. But, as George Will of KPMG LLP, Toronto reports, a new attitude on the part of Revenue Canada could encourage more multinationals to seek the certainty of an agreement
    March 01 1999
  • De Brauw poaches Buruma’s tax team
    Netherlands law firm Buruma Maris has lost its entire tax practice to the Dutch Linklaters & Alliance member, De Brauw, Blackstone, Westbroek.
    March 01 1999
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