Nigel Robinson, the head of mergers and acquisitions in the natural resources sector at Deutsche Bank, is leaving after five years to take up a senior finance role at the Hong Kong-based commodities trading house Noble Group.

Robinson joined Deutsche Bank as a managing director to run its European natural resources M&A team in May 2007 after spending eight years at Goldman Sachs. Before moving into investment banking, he worked at law firm Slaughter & May.