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From October 2009, Tobias Müller-Deku will join forces in Riyadh with corporate partner Patrick Ko and co-head of the Riyadh office, Fares Al-Hejailan. In Saudi Arabia, Freshfields has a strategic alliance with the local Law Firm of Salah Al-Hejailan.
Tobias Müller-Deku will help to further build up the Saudi finance and securities practice and will also be working on corporate matters. In his new function, he brings extensive experience from his international practice, having specialised in banking, finance and securities matters since 1994 as well as leading the finance team in Freshfields' Moscow office between 2000 and 2005.
Joseph Huse, managing partner of the MENA offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, commented:
"The Middle East and North Africa region is of significant strategic importance for Freshfields and our clients, and we have therefore substantially built up our local finance and corporate practices, amongst others. Saudi Arabia is of particular importance and we are very pleased that Tobias will be bringing his extensive experience as a corporate finance adviser to our clients in MENA and, in particular, Saudi Arabia through his relocation to Riyadh."
Tobias Müller-Deku has been a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer since 1999, most recently working in the firm's Munich office. He is a member of the finance practice group and from 2000-05 headed the finance team in the Freshfields Moscow office. Tobias holds law degrees from the universities of Würzburg (Germany) and Cambridge (UK).
After working for a major Japanese law firm in 1991-92, Tobias held a position in the German Federal Ministry for Economics from 1992-94, where he was in charge of foreign investment and public investment guarantees to, amongst other areas, the CIS.
After joining Freshfields in 1994, Tobias has worked on various aspects of banking, finance and securities law for many German and major international banks. While heading the Moscow finance team, Tobias advised banks and issuers on numerous initial public offerings (IPO), among others the first two domestic IPOs in Russia.
In Munich, he advised Pirelli Real Estate on the financing of the acquisition of DGAG, Barclays on the financing of the acquisition of BauBeCon by RREEF and of the acquisition of Pirelli by Cerberus.
He also advised SFC Smart Fuel Cells AG, C.A.T. Oil AG and Polis AG on their respective IPOs, HVB Bank on the sale of an NPL portfolio to Goldman Sachs and Air Berlin PLC on the acquisition of dba.
Most recently, Tobias advised HVB on the financing for Nobel Biocare AG and Swiss National Bank on the acquisition of German assets from UBS.
Posted by Nadeen El Ajou
