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Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition $3.9 billion The Carlyle Group; Hellman & Friedman Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton Acquisition $1.33 billion Minmetals Resources Ltd Anvil Mining Ltd Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg Acquisition $775 million Toyo Seikan Kaisha Ltd Stolle Machinery Company (GSO Capital Partners LP) Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, William Curran Kirkland & Ellis Acquisition $725 million Iochpe Holdings Hayes Lemmerz International Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom - Andre LeDuc Acquisition $550 million Sonoco Products Company Tegrant Corporation (Metalmark Capital) Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell Recapitalisation investment $175 million Thomas H Lee Partners First Bancorp Davis Polk & Wardwell; Weil Gotshal & Manges K&L Gates Acquisition Undisclosed Synopsys Inc Extreme DA Corporation Fenwick & West - Adam Halpern, Natalie Pardo de Zela Type of Deal Value Issuer/Borrower Lead managers/arrangers Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) Acquisition financing $1.23 billion Providence Equity Partners (acquiring Blackboard) Bank of America, NA; Deutsche Bank Securities; Morgan Stanley Senior Funding Inc Weil, Gotshal & Manges; Dewy & LeBoeuf Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Farber, Una Au Credit facility $750 million Micro Inc The Bank of Nova Scotia Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg Mayer Brown SEC-registered notes offering $400 million Bemis Company Inc JP Morgan Securities; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith; Wells Fargo; BNP Paribas Foley & Lardner Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Farber, Juelle Gomes

China’s State Council has confirmed that the recently trialled resource tax on domestic sales of crude oil and natural gas will be extended nationally from November 1.

HM Revenue & Customs has been denied leave to appeal by the UK Upper Tier Tax Tribunal in a VAT case against Med Hotels, now called Secret Hotels 2, worth £7 million ($11 million).

Jacqueline Cottrell of Green Budget Europe takes a look at the European Commission’s proposal to revise the Energy Tax Directive and why it could actually bolster member states’ fiscal sovereignty.

Australian members of Parliament have passed the carbon tax bill through the lower house of Parliament, meaning the only stage left before implementation now is approval from the senate.

Tax compliance in the banking sector has become a top priority for revenue authorities since the global economic turmoil began in 2008 and a meeting in Rome this week emphasised the point.

With the introduction of GST in the offing, the government has been gradually taking steps to achieve its renewed target of transitioning into the new indirect tax regime by April, 2012. Rajeev Dimri of BMR Advisors - Taxand looks at the latest step, the introduction of the Point of Taxation Rules, 2011 (POTR).

A new GST network in India has been launched which will implement the IT infrastructure necessary to introduce the new tax.

The UAE is working on plans to introduce a 5% VAT in conjunction with other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Younis Haji Al Khouri, undersecretary at the UAE's Finance Ministry, has said.

A decision from a Russian court involving the taxation of capital expenditure has been described as “on top of the list of the most stupid court decisions” of the year.