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euro899 million offering from Fortis

The Fortis banking and insurance group is making an offering of 25 million ordinary shares with expected proceeds of euro899 million.

February 01 1999

1999 BUDGET AMENDMENTS

Personal taxation: employee stock option plans

February 01 1999

Cravath, Swaine & Moore in magazine deal

New York firm Cravath, Swaine and Moore is advising UK publisher Emap on the acquisition of US magazine publisher Petersen.

February 01 1999

1999 Tax Reform Approved

After much debate and delay, the Mexican Congress finally approved the 1999 budget on December 31 1998. The final measures do not differ from the original proposals submitted by the president in November, except that the controversial telephone tax proposal was scrapped.

February 01 1999

Deals 1998: a behind the scenes guide - US tax aspects of the BP/Amoco transaction

During 1998 a number of very large cross-border tax-free acquisitions of US public corporations by foreign public corporations were completed. One of the largest was the acquisition of Amoco Corporation, a major US integrated oil company, by British Petroleum.

February 01 1999

Deals 1998: a behind the scenes guide

1998 was a busy year for M&A. The International Tax Review insiders’ guide takes you into the heart of the deals, with advisers from Allen & Overy, Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell, Davis, Polk & Wardwell and Tory, Tory, Deslauriers & Binnington

February 01 1999

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.

January 01 1999

UK unwraps GAAR proposals.

After months of speculation, the UK government has released a consultative document on a GAAR. In a follow-up to last year’s article on the subject, Peter Nias of McDermott, Will & Emery, London argues that this could lead to excessive power for the courts and the Revenue

January 01 1999

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.

January 01 1999

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

January 01 1999

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