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Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank – Royal Bank of Scotland acquisition

- $50.00 m

Entry date - Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Jurisdiction - United Arab Emirates
Practice - M&A
RBS sells off retail banking business in the UAE to Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank - first time UAE bank bought out an international banks’ local franchise.

Firm - Freshfields Bruckahus Deringer Client - Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Lead Lawyers - David Higgins Role - UAE counsel	Firm - Linklaters Client - Royal Bank of Scotland Lead Lawyers - Nick Garland Role - UK counsel

Firm - Freshfields Bruckahus Deringer
Client - Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
Lead Lawyers - David Higgins
Role - UAE counsel

Firm - Linklaters
Client - Royal Bank of Scotland
Lead Lawyers - Nick Garland
Role - UK counsel

Deal summary

• RBS sells off retail banking business in the UAE to Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank - first time UAE bank bought out an international banks’ local franchise.

• Freshfields (here advising ADCB) last year advised ANZ Bank on its acquisition of RBS’s Asia-wide assets sale. Partner David Higgins also advised RBS on its £26.5bn bid for NatWest back in 2000.

• Freshfields retained lawyers from London and Dubai to advise ADCB general counsel Simon Copleston and vice president legal counsels Olivia Birchall and Nabil Azar

• RBS’ are longstanding clients of Linklaters, which also acted for bank last year in its Asia assets sale (sold off 54 Asia branches to ANZ)

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