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Citi wins four Euromoney awards in the Middle East

In recognition of its continuing success in building its Middle East advisory business, Euromoney Magazine awarded four Middle East Merger&Acquisition (M&A) awards to Citi during a special ceremony held in Dubai yesterday.

  • United Arab Emirates: Thursday, June 12 - 2008 at 12:17
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Awards won by Citi were as follows:


• Best M&A House in The Middle East

• Best M&A House in the UAE

• Best M&A House in Saudi Arabia

• Best M&A House in Egypt.

Commenting on the awards, Mohammed Al-Shroogi, Citi Managing Director for the Middle East and Chief Executive Officer for the UAE, said:

'The Awards by Euromoney speak volumes for our progress in the past few years. With a full team of professionals on the ground covering the entire region, we are able to customize financial solutions that meet the complex needs of our sophisticated clients, from ground breaking acquisitions to entering the international capital markets.'



According to THOMSON statistics, the industry standard in financial transactions information, Citi executed the region's top IPO deals during the past few years with a combined transaction volume exceeding $34bn.

'Our M&A activities as well as IPO transactions add strongly to our footprint in the Middle East. We are committed to provide a holistic financial and investment solution to our clients in the region and determined to be their one-stop banker locally as well as globally,' continued Al-Shroogi.

Citi has been present in the Arab World for nearly fifty years and continues to view the region as critical to its global franchise. It is currently present in ten Arab countries including Egypt, UAE, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait.




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About Citi's Top Middle East Transactions:

Among the top advisory and IPO deals that were successfully closed by Citi between 2006 and 2008:

• Aramco Overseas, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, on the sale of its 40% stake in Petron Corp, the leading refining and marketing company in the Philippines - March 2008
• Orascom Construction's $15bn sale of cement businesses to Lafarge - largest M&A deal by Middle East player - January 2008
• Dow on $9bn JV deal with KPC of Kuwait - January 2008
• Etisalat, one the of the largest telecom players in the region, on a $438m acquisition of 16% stake in Exelcomindo, 3rd largest mobile company in Indonesia - December 2007
• Royal Jordanian Airlines IPO - December 2007
• Carlyle Group on the sale of 7.5% stake to Mubadala Development Company - September 2007
• Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Company (SABIC) on its $11.6bn acquisition of GE Plastics, the largest outward M&A transaction in the Middle East - June 2007
• Arab Republic of Egypt's Eurobond - 2007
• Citadel Capital on its acquisition of Rally Energy - 2007
• Citadel Capital on its sale of Egyptian Fertilizers Company - 2007
• Rak Petroleum on its acquisition of a package of assets from Indago - 2007
• Egyptian Government on the sale of 80% shareholding of bank of Alexandria , Egypt's fourth largest state - owned bank to Sonpaolo IMI - 2006
• Istithmar on its acquisition of Barneys - 2006
• Dubai International Capital on its merger of Tussauds with Merlin Entertainment - 2006

About Citi
Citi, the leading global financial services company, has some 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. Citi's major brand names include Citibank, CitiFinancial, Primerica, Citi Smith Barney and Banamex. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com or www.citi.com

For further information, kindly contact:

Karim Seifeddine
Citi
Tel: +971 4 6044392
Anne-Birte Stensgaard Posted by Anne-Birte Stensgaard, Senior News Editor
Thursday, June 12 - 2008 at 12:17 UAE local time (GMT+4)

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