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AMERICAS TAX AWARDS 2012

International Firm of the Year in the Americas

This award is for firms that provide local tax advice on cross-border work, where the firms are headquartered outside the Americas, which for the purposes of this award are considered to be Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, US and Venezuela.

Please complete all fields fully. Incomplete submissions will not be considered.

For each award, firms must complete this front page and then fill out one of the attached forms for each of the matters they are putting forward to justify their nomination.

Matters must be international. For capital markets deals this means more than a fifth of the securities must have been sold to investors outside the country of the issuer/originator. For M&A, deals must involve a cross-border element. For project financings, the financing must be carried out on an international basis. Restructurings must involve creditors outside the country of the company in question. Matters must have closed before June 30 2012.

Litigation may have commenced before July 1 2011, but must have concluded before June 30 2012. Proceedings must have been instituted in the first instance in the country concerned for a firm to qualify for consideration for that national award.

We would like to nominate [firm name] for the tax firm of the year award for

Argentina

Brazil

Canada

Chile

Colombia

Mexico

Panama

Peru

 Puerto Rico

US: Chicago

US: Houston & Dallas

US: Los Angeles

US: New York

US: San Francisco and the Bay Area

US: Washington, DC

Uruguay

Venezuela

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National/City Area Tax Firm of the Year

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