Major Asian blue-chip companies to meet leading Arab investors at Investment Conference

Notes and media contacts

Arab-Asian Investment Conference 3-4 December 2007, Dubai
Attendance at the Arab-Asian Investment Conference is by invitation only.

Fur further information, please contact:
Dubai International Capital LLC

Jehad Saleh
or
Maliha Aqeel
JiWin Public Relations
Exclusive Affiliate of Burson-Marsteller in the Middle East
Tel: +971 4 361 3598

About Dubai International Capital LLC:
Established in 2004, DIC is a Dubai-based international investment company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dubai Holding. DIC manages an international portfolio of diverse assets that provide its stakeholders with value growth, diversification, and strategic investments and relationships.

DIC's investments have included: £800 million acquisition of The Tussauds Group (UK), one of the largest operators of visitor attractions in Europe and its subsequent partnership with Merlin Entertainments Group 'Merlin' which positioned the combined Group as the world's second biggest visitor attractions operator after Disney. DIC retained a 20% stake in the combined company.

DIC's investments also included the £675 million acquisition of Travelodge (UK), Britain's fastest growing budget hotel company, US$ 1 billion stake in DaimlerChrysler, one of the world's leading carmakers; £700 million acquisition of Doncasters Group (UK), an industrial manufacturing firm that produces precision engineering components across various industrial sectors; and €850 million acquisition of Mauser AG, a world market leader in industrial packaging with approximately 3,700 employees operating in more than 50 locations across Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia.

Most recently, DIC has agreed to acquire a 9.9% outstanding equity stake in Och-Ziff, a leading institutional alternative asset management firm and one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world, upon completion of its planned initial public offering. DIC acquired Almatis, the global leader in the research, development and production of specialty alumina materials used in various industrial manufacturing processes. DIC also recently acquired for £600 million Alliance Medical, the leading provider of diagnostic imaging services to the European healthcare sector. DIC's public equities investments include a 2.87% stake in ICICI, Bank Limited ('ICICI'), the leading Indian financial services firm.

DIC is also a substantial investor in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Investments include a significant stake in the Rivoli Group, one of the Gulf Co-operation Council's (GCC) leading luxury retailers with over 215 outlets; Ishraq, a US$150 million investment company that was formed to bring the Holiday Inn Express brand of hotels to the GCC except Saudi Arabia; and the MENA Infrastructure Fund, a US$500 million fund targeting investment opportunities in infrastructure projects in the MENA region. In 2005, DIC launched Jordan Dubai Capital, a US$300 million investment company that targets private equity opportunities in the Jordanian economy. DIC is also a founding shareholder of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, a company building a global aerospace corporation that encompasses aircraft leasing, manufacturing, services, airports and education. In addition, DIC has a joint venture with CBRE that provides real estate asset management services in Dubai and the broader Middle East region.
Information about Dubai International Capital LLC is available at: www.dubaiic.com.