Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown stockbrokers, said: "The likelihood of the AbbVie/Shire deal has all but disappeared judging by the market reaction, whilst the possibility of Pfizer approaching AstraZeneca anew must also be in serious jeopardy, both falling foul of the potential tightening of US tax inversion laws".
After a wave of similar deals, the US cracked down in 2004 with an anti-inversion law targeted at firms relocating to tax havens.
However, it also made a more attractive destination of Europe, where there are many firms large enough to bypass anti-inversion laws.
The burkini row may seem banal, and to some a surreal inversion of laws in Islamic countries, but it has become yet another flame in the murderous tinderbox of Islamism in France, invoking issues of control over the body, religious freedom, racism, provocation, terrorism, Islam and Islamophobia, republicanism and what the French call laïcité.
But for three months of the year he becomes the incarnation of the god Vishnu and is worshipped even by Brahmins in a flagrant inversion of caste law.
As public outrage grew, some companies, including Nabors, which was based in Houston, raced to reincorporate outside the United States, a process known as corporate inversion, before the law could be changed to prevent them from doing so or imposing federal taxes on them.
Because of the control surface redundancy, the aircraft using the dynamic inversion flight control law already has a control allocation block.
But wherever he really is, his inversion of the laws of balladry, PR, live performance and social etiquette remain bracing.
The second type of controller predicts the minimum variance estimate of control action using recall process (network inversion) and the control law is derived following a Lyapunov function synthesis approach so that the closed loop system consisting of controller and neural emulator remains stable.
Jay-Z's "99 Problems" has become something of a crime anthem, a cathartic inversion of "I Fought The Law".
