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Yasutoshi Nishimura, Japan’s Deputy Economy Minister, is the latest government figure to join the calls for a corporate tax rate reduction.

Lisa Dunne of William Fry discusses the ICAV: A new corporate investment vehicle specifically designed for Irish funds, which has been announced by the Minister for Finance.

Type of Deal Value Issuer/Borrower Lead managers/arrangers Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) Notes offering/accelerated share repo $2 billion FedEx Corporation JP Morgan Securities; Goldman, Sachs; Morgan Stanley; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith; Citigroup Davis Polk & Wardwell - Mario Verdolini, Leslie Altus, Ankur Dalal Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Primary placing of H shares $759 million China Oilfield Services (CNOOC) China International Capital; Credit Suisse; JP Morgan; Goldman Sachs; Morgan Stanley Davis Polk & Wardwell; KangDa Law Firm; Freshfields Burckhaus Deringer Zhong Yin Law Firm Acquisition financing $325 million XPO Logistics & 3PD Credit Suisse Securities Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Davis Polk & Wardwell Incremental facility $300 million Verint Systems Credit Suisse Securities; Deutsche Bank Securities Jones Day Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell Common stock offering $192 million Kennedy-Wilson Holdings Deutsche Bank Securities Latham & Watkins; Kulik, Gottesman & Siegel Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Juelle Gomes Secondary common stock offering $163 million Groupon (LivingSocial) Morgan Stanley Winston & Strawn; Cooley Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Catherine Paskoff Chang Senior notes offering $150 million K Hovnanian Enterprises Credit Suisse Securities; JP Morgan Securities Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Adam Perry Acquisition financing Undisclosed Platinum Equity Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith; Credit Suisse Securities Wilkie Farr & Gallagher Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Vinay Prabhakar

Robert Gaut is the new head of Proskauer’s tax practice in London.

There is a new executive chairman at Steptoe & Johnson. Phil West, who heads the firm’s tax group, took over on January 1 2014 from Roger Warin, who now becomes chair emeritus.

Effective intellectual property (IP) tax planning is increasingly dependent on the convergence of political, regulatory, and operational factors. David Cordova, Michael Bowes, J. Donald Fancher, John A. Hudson, and Sam Chung discuss.

Michael Gilson, John Wells, Andrew Feinberg, and Andrew Newman explain why harnessing a company’s procurement function is important in tax planning.

The US television production industry, just one of the segments within the media and entertainment space, reported total revenue of $35.6 billion and a profit of $6.1 billion, or 17% of revenue in 2012. Mark Nehoray, Kristine Riisberg, and Anna Soubbotina take an industry focused look at dealing with intangibles.

Marco Fiaccadori, Arin Mitra, and Philippe Penelle provide a practical analysis of the venture valuation model and cost sharing rules.

In the world of mergers and acquisitions, it is fairly common to observe a difference between the actual price paid in acquiring a target company and the preacquisition fair value of the company, the acquisition premium. Keith Reams, Lawrence Shanda, Joe Tobin, and Wen-Fang Liu analyse the concept.