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  • Texas Utilities has made a $7.18 billion offer to buy the UK Energy Group. The offer tops an earlier bid by the US group, and also a $7 billion bid from US rival PacifiCorp.
  • US banks Golden State Bancorp and First Nationwide Holdings, have announced a $2.5 billion merger. The transaction will create the third-largest savings and loan in the US
  • Time Warner and Boston Ventures have agreed to sell their interests in Six Flags, a US theme park group, to Premier Parks. Premier is paying $965 million to acquire 12 parks and licensing rights.
  • QWest Communications has made an agreed $4.4 billion bid to buy LCI International, a US long-distance telephone operator.
  • UK industrial conglomerate BTR, has agreed to sell its worldwide glass and plastics packaging business to Owens-Illinois, the leading manufacturer of glass containers in the US. The deal is worth $3.6 billion.
  • Halliburton, the Texas-based oilfield services group, has made a $7.7 billion bid to buy rival company Dresser Industries.
  • How should the EU Merger Directive be interpreted? Is national tax legislation subject to EU enshrined freedoms? Pascal Faes, Van Bael & Bellis, Brussels, considers how the European Court of Justice shed light on these and other issues in 1997
  • Insurance and asset management groups Commercial Union and General Accident have agreed to merge in a deal worth $12 billion. Clifford Chance in London is representing General Accident. Tax partner Douglas French heads the tax team.
  • Legislation to implement provisions to counter franking credit trading and dividend streaming was introduced into parliament on December 4 1997. There has been considerable discussion about the proposed rules, which will be debated in parliament during March/April 1998. The rules apply to dividends and other distributions paid on or after 7.30pm, May 13 1997.
  • Argentina's Executive has announced a package of fiscal measures, which will be submitted to Congress for approval.