Tax Grotto

Chris Bale | August 29, 2009

IK Investment Partners (“IK”), a Pan-European private equity firm, has signed an agreement with a group of investors including Reggeborgh Groep to acquire a majority stake in Vistra Group (“Vistra”), a fast growing international trust and corporate service provider. The current management team remains [private] an important shareholder and re-invests nearly all proceeds. The transaction [...]

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Chris Bale | August 27, 2009

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has announced the expansion of our international tax practice with two partners joining in London and New York. [private]Brenda Coleman will be joining Weil Gotshal’s London office and Patrick Jackman has joined the New York office.
Martin Pollack, co-chair of Weil Gotshal’s Global Tax practice, stated, “The firm’s focus on advising [...]

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Chris Bale | August 26, 2009

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced the appointment of [private]Danny Beeton as the firm’s Head of Transfer Pricing Economics.
Previously a partner and head of transfer pricing at accountant and business adviser Grant Thornton, Danny has over 20 years of experience as a strategic transfer pricing adviser defending companies in transfer pricing disputes as [...]

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Chris Bale | August 26, 2009

Ernst & Young LLP has announced that Frank Y. Ng has joined the firm in the Tax Controversy and Risk Management Services practice.
Ng most recently served as [private]the Commissioner of the Large and Mid-Size Business (LMSB) division at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
“Frank is a deeply respected tax professional who spearheaded some of the most [...]

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Chris Bale | August 26, 2009

DLA Piper has announced that two economists have joined its Amsterdam office as transfer pricing experts. [private] Ágata Uceda and Frank Schwarte have joined the tax group as economists.
Ágata joins DLA Piper from the Amsterdam office of KPMG where she worked for almost nine years, advising multinationals on the management, design and implementation of their transfer [...]

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Chris Bale | August 25, 2009

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (”Bloomsbury”) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Tottel Publishing Limited (”Tottel”), an independent professional and academic publisher in the UK and Ireland. The offer to acquire the entire share capital of Tottel “debt free” will be satisfied by a cash consideration of £9.96m and upon completion Tottel [...]

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Chris Bale | August 23, 2009

[private]On July 30, 2009, attorney Jeffrey M. Verdon and Professor Jerry Hesch from Jeffrey M. Verdon Law Group, LLP joined Oshins & Associates, LLC, to create one of the largest and most experienced estate planning and asset protection practices in the US.
Jeffrey M. Verdon, Of Counsel at Oshins & Associates (also Managing Partner at [...]

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Chris Bale | August 23, 2009

CMS Albinana & Suarez de Lezo has announced the integration of a team of professionals headed by tax law and tax-procedural specialist [private]Felipe Alonso from the Madrid office of the international law firm Baker & McKenzie. With this
incorporation, CMS Albinana & Suarez de Lezo will reinforce its current team and give a strong strategic boost [...]

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Chris Bale | August 23, 2009

Rimini Street, Inc., a leading third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, including Oracle Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards software, and SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) software, has announced the global expansion of its proven tax and regulatory update service. [private]
Tax and regulatory updates from Rimini Street, already used and trusted by hundreds [...]

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Chris Bale | August 18, 2009

[private]Linklaters has appointed tax adviser Olaf Kroon as counsel in Amsterdam to head its Dutch tax practice.
Olaf joins Linklaters from Allen & Overy where he has worked for seven years. He previously spent three years as a tax adviser at Ernst & Young.
Olaf is a generalist tax practitioner who will provide tax support to all [...]

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Chris Bale | August 17, 2009

[private]Vincent Alicandri, Senior Vice President–Corporate Tax for Hydro One Networks, Inc. in Toronto, Ontario, has been elected the President of Tax Executives Institute (TEI), effective August 12.
Founded in 1944, TEI is the preeminent association of in-house tax professionals, and its 7,300 members work for 3,200 of the leading companies in the world. TEI, which has [...]

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Chris Bale | August 17, 2009

Robert Young has been made a tax partner at[private] Taylor Wessing as of 1 July 09.
Robert is a partner in the corporate tax division of the private client, tax and incentives department, with over eight years experience of advising corporate and personal clients on tax planning and structuring and the tax implications of transactions in [...]

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Chris Bale | August 16, 2009

Brown Rudnick, an international law firm has announced that[private] Tracy Fisher has joined the firm’s London office as a Partner in the Tax Group.
Ms. Fisher provides complex transactional and structuring tax advice,
predominantly in a funds, international, real estate, or private equity context. She has extensive experience in corporate mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations and [...]

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Chris Bale | August 16, 2009

Leading northern law firm Dickinson Dees LLP has enhanced its wealth management team with the arrival in York of leading private client lawyer,[private] Caroline Hedges.
Caroline, one of Yorkshire’s most experienced trust lawyers, will lead the private client team in the York office, complimenting the wealth management practice at Dickinson Dees – one of [...]

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Chris Bale | August 16, 2009

Chadbourne & Parke LLP has announced today that [private] Eli Katz has been named a LLP partner in the Firm.
Eli Katz, Age 36, New York office, Tax and Project Finance. Mr. Katz’s practice focuses on federal tax law, with a particular emphasis on energy tax credits, asset-based financing, renewable energy investments and project finance and [...]

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Chris Bale | August 16, 2009

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today that seven lawyers have been elected to the Firm’s partnership including one tax partner.[private]
Jeffrey Ross, an attorney in the Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits Department in the Firm’s New York office, has experience with a wide range of benefits and compensation matters and the numerous federal [...]

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Chris Bale | August 16, 2009

Boston Tax Firm Caturano and Company, New England’s largest regional full-service CPA, consulting, and wealth management firm, announces that[private] Marc P. Lamothe, CPA, has been promoted to Partner in the firm’s tax practice. Lamothe has extensive experience in the partnership/LLC area including formation structuring and strategic consulting, mainline federal and state tax compliance, and due [...]

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Chris Bale | August 16, 2009

[private]The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (“RBS”) has announced the appointment of Mr Bruce Van Saun as Chief Financial Officer, with effect from 1st October 2009. Prior to today’s appointment, Bruce held a number of senior management positions in financial services and was most recently Chief Financial Officer of Bank of New York Mellon. [...]

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Chris Bale | August 16, 2009

[private]Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) announces the appointment of Dan Lange to the role of DTT Global Managing Partner, Tax. Dan served most recently as DTT and U.S. Managing Partner for International Tax, and will continue as a member of the Deloitte LLP Board of Directors.
Deloitte member firm tax services provide clients with multi-service offerings in [...]

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Chris Bale | August 16, 2009

Eisner & Lubin LLP, a prominent certified public accounting and consulting firm, has announced that [private]Raymond G. Russolillo has joined the firm as partner. Mr. Russolillo brings significant expertise and more than 25 years of experience in family office/wealth services serving high net worth families and corporate clientele.
Prior to joining Eisner & Lubin, Mr. Russolillo [...]

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Chris Bale | August 16, 2009

Arnold & Porter LLP has announced the addition of a tax partner in the NY office.[private]
Ms. Mann, who joined Arnold & Porter’s tax practice as a partner on August 10. She has nearly 20 years of experience in corporate tax law, working on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, hedge fund and private equity fund [...]

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Chris Bale | August 16, 2009

OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría has welcomed the announcement today of the new Chair of the OECD’s Forum on Tax Administration, [private]Douglas H. Shulman of the United States.
“The OECD’s Forum on Tax Administration, is the leading global body in the field of tax administration. We congratulate Commissioner Shulman and look forward to working closely with [...]

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Chris Bale | August 4, 2009

Deloitte reports on business performance in the UK for the year ended 31 May 2009
[private]
* Net revenues (billings excluding client disbursements) of £1.7 billion were at the same level as in the previous year. Gross revenues at £1.97 billion were 2% lower than in 2008.
* In [...]

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Chris Bale | August 4, 2009

[private]The Honorable Mark W. Everson, who served as Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 2003 until 2007, today agreed to serve as Vice Chairman for alliantgroup, a leading provider of tax services to small, medium, and large businesses. In the role of Vice Chairman, Everson will advise alliantgroup on strategic, operational, and client service initiatives.
Mr. Everson [...]

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Chris Bale | August 4, 2009

[private]Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) today announced that Frank T. Connor, a former Goldman, Sachs & Co. corporate finance executive, has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective August 1st. Connor is [...]

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Chris Bale | August 4, 2009

[private] John Donavan, ex Shell employee and now a dedicated blogger about the company, alleges to have seen a leaked email confirming a series of over 300 VP appointments. I have copied below the alleged tax appointments (which may be re-appointments) but for the original article please click here
VP Tax East
Jim Robertson
VP Tax West and [...]

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