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Caplin & Drysdale has established a practice dedicated solely to providing legal services to help resolve tax matters using alternative dispute resolution (ADR). The practice, called ADRTax, will provide alternatives to the firm's clients and help them bridge differences with federal, state and foreign tax authorities.

Richard Nugent has become a partner of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in New York.

Alvarez & Marsal Taxand has appointed Cardell McKinstry and Amanda Starr to its transaction tax practice in Atlanta.

US law firm Winston & Strawn has promoted tax lawyers David Colin and Karen Kowalski to partner. Colin has experience with optimisation of indirect taxes in cross-border transactions, VAT advisory matters, negotiation with tax authorities, and due diligence counselling.

Judith Knott has replaced Diane Hay, who resigned, as the chair of the transfer pricing board at the Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs in the UK. The board was set up early in 2008 to manage the strategic direction for transfer pricing at the tax authorities. The board oversees the work of HMRC's transfer pricing and thin capitalisation specialists.

Michael Velten Transfer Pricing Associates (TPA) has appointed Michael Velten to its Asia team. Velten will lead the firm's global financial services practice and will be based in Hong Kong.

Carlo Galli Carlo Galli is joining Clifford Chance as a partner to set up the firm's Italy tax practice. He joins from Maisto e Associati, which he joined in 1995.

A former international tax official in the US Treasury has joined Deloitte. Gretchen Sierra, who was an attorney-adviser in the Office of the International Tax Counsel in the Office of Tax Policy, has started work in the firm's international tax group in Washington, DC.

Jeffrey Davis Mayer Brown has appointed Jeffrey Davis as a partner in the tax transactions practice in its Washington, DC office. Davis' practice focuses on tax credit transactions.

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition $68 billion Pfizer Wyeth Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz T Eiko Stange Acquisition $13.9 billion MSD Capital, Stone Point Capital, JC Flowers IndyMac Federal Bank Simpson Thacher John Creed, Noah Beck Acquisition $5 billion US Treasury department GMAC Financial Services Cravath Swaine & Moore Disposal €1 billion B&C Privatstiftung Profit participation rights in B&C Holding Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Bank Austria and UniCredit) Claus Staringer, Lars Glaeser Acquisition $1.2 billion Asahi Breweries Schweppes Australia Baker & McKenzie Real estate £1.09 billion ($1.6 billion) HSBC Project Mapel II Allen & Overy Ben Eaton Disposal £750 million ($1.1 billion) Telereal Land Securities Trillium excluding Accor Hotels Slaughter and May (Land Securities Group) Richard Jeens Investment $1 billion General Motors General Motors Acceptance Corporation Weil, Gotshal & Manges Max Goodman Acquisition $775 million Autonomy Interwoven Fenwick & West Rob Schrotenboer, Timothy Fitzgibbon Acquisition €515 million ($677 million) GlaxoSmithKline UCB Slaughter and May Jeanette Zaman, Dominic Robertson, Max Mittasch Acquisition $401 million M&T Bank Corporation Provident Bankshares Corporation Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Joshua Holmes, Michael Sabbah Investment $300 million Metalmark Capital and Waud Capital Maxum Petroleum Davis, Polk & Wardwell Kathleen Ferrell, Michael Bretholz, Matthew Kohley Acquisition £115 million ($236 million) Esterline Technologies Racal Acoustics Taylor Wessing Nikol Davies Acquisition $150 million UBS AIG commodity index unit Weil, Gotshal & Manges William Horton, Andrew Gaines Investment $100 million Elevation Partners Palm Davis, Polk & Wardwell Rachel Kleinberg, M Ryan LaRosa Acquisition £52.9 million ($77.6 million) Francisco Partners Dmatek Limited Slaughter and May Sara Luder Acquisition £24.6 million ($36.5 million) GlaxoSmithKline Bristol-Myers Squibb Pakistan Slaughter and May Jeanette Zaman, Dominic Robertson, Max Mittasch Disposal Nominal sum Evening Press Ltd Majority interest in the Evening Standard newspaper from DMGT Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (DMGT) Jonathan Cooklin, Andreas Koller Disposal Undisclosed Bowburn UK residential garage doors manufacture and distribution business of Cardo Slaughter and May Gareth Miles, Ben Hammond Acquisition Undisclosed IBM Transitive Corporation Cravath Swaine & Moore Vinay Shandal, Mark Dundon Acquisition Undisclosed American Greetings Recycled Paper Greetings Weil, Gotshal & Manges Stuart Goldring, Joshua Gefland, Keith Cooper Acquisition Undisclosed Infograms Entertainment Cryptic Studios O'Melveny & Myers Robert Fisher Merger Undisclosed Morgan Stanley Global Wealth Management Citi Smith Barney Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Jodi Schwartz, T Eiko Stange, Vincent Kalafat Acquisition Undisclosed Coca-Cola Scarabeus GmbH Clifford Chance Jutta Schneider Merger Undisclosed Essent RWE Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Hans Galavazi Acquisition Undisclosed Deutsche Bank Deutsche Postbank Hengeler Mueller Ernst-Thomas Kraft Disposal Undisclosed Standard Chartered Cazenove Asia Slaughter and May (JPMorgan Cazenove) Jeanette Zaman, Ben Hammond Type of Deal Value New entity Partners Adviser to Partners Joint Venture Undisclosed Creation of New York Block Exchange BIDS Holdings/NYSE Morgan Lewis (BIDS Holdings) Richard Zarin Promote your tax practice, send deal information to Joanna Faith; +44 207 779 8359