On February 9th, A&M Tax Managing Director, Dan Peters led the TP Minds America panel discussing "Successful Approaches to the Valuation of Intellectual Property". Joined by Sheetal Kumar of Baker Hughes and Tatyana Pashova of IFF and TJ Michaelson of VISA, this panel discussed a variety of topics such as method selection, reliability issues, hard-to-value Intangibles (HTVI), commensurate with income, and consistency with external communications.

In what is a significant move towards having Brazil at long last join the global mainstream position in following the arm’s length standard, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sanctioned, without vetoes, the new Brazilian transfer pricing legislation.