Corporate move to a lower tax jurisdiction.
1The deal would not be structured as a so-called tax inversion.
2Sources have told Reuters that Pfizer is discussing a tax inversion.
3Pfizer takeover: what is a tax inversion deal and why are they so controversial?
4Calls for political action to stop tax inversion deals are growing in the United States.
5That puts it just below the threshold at which the tax inversion could be blocked.
6For every tax inversion deal that gets announced, they said, there are many more that don't get done.
7Mitel executives have brushed off concerns the deal could be affected by the U.S. Treasury's new tax inversion rules.
8Recent attempts by companies to do such tax inversion deals have drawn the criticism of U.S. President Barack Obama.
10Such an overseas shift, called a tax inversion, has become increasingly popular among US companies and a hot political issue.
11However, analysts at Barclays said that the cost synergies and tax inversion benefits of the existing offer could be limited.
12Last month US Treasury officials unveiled new rules to make it harder for American companies to complete tax inversion deals.
13In a tax inversion, one company buys a rival based in a different country with a less onerous tax policy.
14Cash-rich companies are finally pulling the trigger on acquisitions, encouraged by tax inversion deals that allow multinationals to cut costs.
15AbbVie pulled the plug on its plan to buy Shire, blaming new U.S. tax rules aimed at curtailing tax inversion deals.
16Salix said in July it would merge with an Irish subsidiary of Cosmo Pharmaceuticals SpA COPN.S in a so-called tax inversion.