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  • AT&T looks to Wachtell, Lipton
    US-based communications group AT&T is to acquire Vanguard Cellular, a US mobile phone operator. The deal is worth $1.5 billion in cash, and stocks, and $600 million of debt. The acquisition is due to be completed in the first quarter of 1999.
    December 01 1998
  • White & Case advises on Finnish equity offering
    The Finnish govenment has sold its 21.9% stake in Sonera, the country’s leading telecommunications company in the largest-ever offering by a Finnish issuer. The deal is valued at over $1.4 billion. The offering comprised 160 million shares, including 119 million American depository shares sold to institutional investors outside Finland.
    December 01 1998
  • Slaughter and May delivers the goods
    Deutsche Post, Europe’s largest postal enterprise is to purchase a 50% interest in Securicor, a UK-owned parcel service. The price of this stake is £223 million. Tony Beare, partner at Slaughter and May in London, handled the tax side for Deutsche Post.
    December 01 1998
  • Skadden, Arps in largest-ever US deal
    US petroleum companies Exxon and Mobil are to merge in a transaction worth $79 billion. Exxon will gain control of the new company. This is the largest merger in US history. The new company will have a market value of $250 billion.
    December 01 1998
  • Competition: More harm than good.
    Mason Gaffney, Professor of Economics, University of California argues that the OECD’s definition of harmful tax competition must be challenged. Instead, he suggests that tax competition is both a natural and beneficial process
    December 01 1998
  • Top advisers thrive under pressure
    As International Tax Review reveals the results of the third annual survey of Latin American tax advice, Oliver Ralph talks to consultants and their clients about the globalization of tax policy that is forcing a sea change in the way that advice is given.
    December 01 1998
  • News in Brief
    Spain to aid recession-hit companies, UK will be a lower-taxed port in a storm, Malaysian budget promises tax changes, Evasion spreads in Russia as harsher laws are ignored, Brazil’s austerity plan increases tax burden, Cayman Islands will not cooperate on tax crime, Pakistan’s economy rests on tax collectors’ shoulders France’s tax breaks will fight the millennium bug, Tax cuts may lift Peru’s gloom
    December 01 1998
  • Food row may endanger Australia's tax reform.
    The inclusion of food in Australia's planned goods and services tax (GST) is ensuring the proposals get a rough ride through the Senate. Dissent may result in the final legislation being more complex than first envisaged.
    December 01 1998
  • Energy tax fuels indignation
    The German government’s proposals for an ecological tax are proof of the old saying that if you try and please everyone you end up pleasing nobody. Plans to tax the use of energy and channel revenue into statutory non-wage costs have split Germany’s coalition government, and has attracted criticism from unlikely bedfellows Greenpeace and the German Federation for Industry.
    December 01 1998
  • Cleary, Gottlieb advises Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank is to acquire Bankers Trust in a transaction valued at approximately $9.7 billion. The move will create the world’s largest financial services company in terms of assets.
    December 01 1998
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