The Gazprom Headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank AG.

The parties discussed the prospects for bilateral cooperation addressing, in particular, the possibilities of consulting Gazprom on corporate financing issues, merger and acquisition transactions, assets purchases as well as the Bank’s participation in the Company’s top priority projects financing and syndicated loans for internal needs of Gazprom.

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The combined assets of Deutsche Bank Group account for EUR 2.027 trln (as of December 31, 2007).

Deutsche Bank AG has acted as a co-manager of a range of Eurobond issues for Gazprom, participated as an expert on a number of asset acquisition deals as well as provided the Company with a handful of direct bilateral loans.