EX-99.1 2 dp10297_ex9901.htm
Exhibit 99.1
 
     
Samuel Dimon
212 450 4037
Samuel.Dimon@DPW.COM
450 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10017
212 450 4000
FAX 212 450 3800
Menlo Park
Washington, D.C.
London
Paris
Frankfurt
Madrid
Tokyo
Beijing
Hong Kong
 
 
June 17, 2008
 
Deutsche Bank AG
60 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
We have acted as special tax counsel to Deutsche Bank AG (the “Bank”) in connection with the preparation and filing of product supplement AI, dated June 17, 2008, relating to Return Enhanced Notes Linked to Common Stock (the “Product Supplement”), which supplements a prospectus supplement dated November 13, 2006 for the Bank’s Global Notes, Series A, which in turn supplements a prospectus dated October 10, 2006 contained in the Company’s Registration Statement No. 333-137902 on Form F-3  (the “Registration Statement”).  This opinion is being furnished in accordance with the requirements of Section 601(b)(8) of Regulation S-K of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”).

In our opinion, the discussions under the heading “Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” in the Product Supplement, subject to the conditions and limitations described therein, set forth the generally applicable material U.S. federal income tax considerations of ownership and disposition of the securities offered pursuant to the Product Supplement.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the references to our firm under the heading “Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” in the Product Supplement.  In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act.


 
Very truly yours,
   
 
/s/ Davis Polk & Wardwell