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  • Halliburton, the Texas-based oilfield services group, has made a $7.7 billion bid to buy rival company Dresser Industries.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Joel Williamson and Gregory Barton of Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago, look at ten US tax cases handed down during 1997 with implications for international tax planning of which multinationals need to take note
  • Directive 69/335/EEC — Duty charged on documents recording the contribution of a part of the share capital.
  • Homestake Mining is to form the third-largest gold producer based in North America with the takeover of Australian company Plutonic Resources. The deal is worth £384 million ($640 million). Plutonic is Australia's third-largest gold producer, and the deal is the latest example of consolidation among the country's mining companies.
  • On January 29 1998, the under-secretary of finance submitted a letter to the Dutch parliament in which he described the fiscal aspects of the introduction of the Euro. This letter will form the basis for the preparation of relevant legislation. The main conclusions are described below.
  • UK firm Linklaters is advising the four agent banks involved in the recently signed £8 billion ($12.8 billion) Eurotunnel debt restructuring. The deal involved a syndicate of almost 200 banks.
  • Glaxo Wellcome is set to acquire Polish medicine manufacturer Polfa Poznan following a successful competitive tender with the Ministry of State Treasury in Poland. The £133 million ($220 million) deal will make Glaxo Wellcome the largest pharmaceutical company in Poland.
  • DLJ Merchant Banking Partners II is to acquire an 82% stake in Thermadyne Holdings based in St Louis, USA. Thermadyne is the world's fourth-largest manufacturer of welding and cutting equipment, and operates 14 manufacturing plants in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. The deal is worth $790 million.