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Marc D. Granetz
Global Co-Head of the Investment Banking Department
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Marc D. Granetz is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse and Global Co-Head of the Investment Banking department, based in New York. Mr. Granetz is also Global Head of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Mr. Granetz is a member of the Investment Banking Management Committee and the Investment Banking Management Council.
Mr. Granetz joined Credit Suisse First Boston in 1985. He spent three years in the Financial Institutions Group, two years heading the Mergers & Acquisitions Group's takeover defense team, five years in, including two years as Co-Head of, the Energy Group, six years as a generalist, two years as Head of the Global Media & Telecom Group and has been Head of the Global M&A since 2004. Mr. Granetz has advised numerous companies in a broad range of industries on strategic matters including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, spin-offs, proxy contests, dual class and targeted stock plans.
Mr. Granetz is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and served as the John Harvard Scholar to Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.
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Steven Koch
Co-Chairman of Global Mergers & Acquisitions
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Steven Koch is a Vice Chairman and Co-Chairman of Credit Suisse's Mergers and Acquisitions Group, based in Chicago. He is a member of the Americas Advisory Council, the Chairman's Board of the Investment Banking division, and the Investment Banking Committee.
Mr. Koch joined the Bank in 1985 and was named a Managing Director in 1989, Co-Head of the Mergers and Acquisitions Group in 1993 and Co-Chairman of the Mergers and Acquisitions Group in 2000. He has advised clients in all major financial markets in a wide variety of industries.
Mr. Koch received his B.A. from Hampshire College, his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Chicago Law School. He was a Henry Luce Scholar and served as a law clerk to Judge Richard Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. Mr. Koch helped organize, and teaches in, the Director's Consortium, a semi-annual seminar sponsored by the Wharton School, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Law School. He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center in Chicago, the Board of Directors of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, and the Board of Trustees of Francis W. Parker School.
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D. Scott Lindsay
Co-Chairman of Global Mergers & Acquisitions
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Scott Lindsay is a Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse and Co-Chairman of the Global Mergers and Acquisitions group within the Investment Banking division, based in New York. He is a member of the Investment Banking division's Chairman's Board and the Investment Banking department's Executive Board.
Mr. Lindsay joined the Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Credit Suisse First Boston in 1982. He headed the Takeover Defense Team and later Cross-Border M&A before becoming a Group Head in 1993 and Co-Chairman in 2000. While serving as Co-Head of Global M&A Mr. Lindsay also chaired the Firm's Investment Banking Advisory Committee which oversees the rendering of M&A opinions and formal advice. Mr. Lindsay has advised companies located throughout the world in a variety of industries.
Mr. Lindsay was an economist prior to joining the Bank. He was a member of the economics and finance faculties of the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California, an econometrician with the Rand Corporation, and a senior economic advisor in The Executive Office of the President during the Reagan administration. Mr. Lindsay received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Lawrence A. Hamdan
Vice Chairman of Global Mergers & Acquisitions
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Lawrence Hamdan is Vice Chairman of the Global Mergers & Acquisitions group of Credit Suisse. He is a member of the Americas Chairman's Board and the Advisory Council of the Investment Banking department. He also serves as Vice Chair of the Investment Banking Committee, which renders formal opinions and advice to the Bank's clients.
Mr. Hamdan joined the Bank in 1989 and became a Managing Director in 1998. He previously served as the global co-head of the Global Industrial & Services Group, the largest industry group in the Investment Banking department.
Mr. Hamdan has advised on more than $200 billion in transactions including the $12 billion hostile defense of TRW and subsequent sale to Northrop Grumman; GE's NBC division $14 billion stock/cash acquisition of Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the $12 billion hostile defense of AMP; Alcoa's $5 billion unsolicited takeover of Reynolds Metals; the $3 billion sale of York International to Johnson Controls; the $2 billion stock merger of Goodrich and Coltec; the $2 billion stock merger of Pulte and Del Webb; the $2 billion sale of Dal-Tile to Mohawk; several billion dollar acquisitions for Coca-Cola Enterprises and numerous acquisitions for The Home Depot. He has advised on several ground-breaking cross-border transactions including Evraz's $2.3 billion acquisition of Oregon Steel (the largest Russian acquisition in the U.S.) and Philip Morris International's $5 billion acquisition of Sampoerna in Indonesia (the largest Southeast Asian deal). His representation of TRW was named M&A Deal of the Year by both Investment Dealers' Digest and Institutional Investor.
Mr. Hamdan received an A.B. Degree in Economics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, a J.D. Degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and an M.B.A. Degree with highest distinction from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.
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David DeNunzio
Vice Chairman of Americas Mergers & Acquisitions
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David A. DeNunzio is a Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse in the Mergers & Acquisitions group within the Investment Banking division, based in New York. He has more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of financial advisory services, including divestitures, buyer advisory services, mergers, recapitalizations and takeover defense. Mr. DeNunzio also serves on the Investment Banking Committee.
Mr. DeNunzio was recently named one of the top 30 M&A investment bankers by Dealmaker Magazine. His clients are active in a number of industries, including retail and consumer, energy, transportation and financial services.
Prior to his current responsibilities, Mr. DeNunzio was Deputy Global Head of Credit Suisse First Boston Private Equity (CSFB PE), which he headed prior to CSFB's merger with DLJ. His previous positions include managing the integration of the former Credit Suisse's wholesale banking and securities businesses with the former CSFB, Head of the Bank's investment banking business in the Eastern United States and Canada and managing the Bank's investment banking activities in the insurance industry.
Before he joined the Bank in 1989, Mr. DeNunzio was a Senior Vice President at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated.
Mr. DeNunzio received his A.B. in Economics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He also serves as President of the Board of Trustees of The Greenwich Country Day School and a member of the Advisory Council of The Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University.
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Bertrand F. Facon
Chairman of Europe Mergers & Acquisitions and Strategic Advisory
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Bertrand Facon is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division, based in London. Mr. Facon is Co-Chairman of the European Mergers and Acquisitions Group in the Investment Banking Department.
Mr. Facon joined Credit Suisse First Boston in 1985 as an Equity Research Analyst in New York. He moved to London in 1990 and became Managing Director in 1994. He transferred to Investment Banking where he ran the European Consumer and Retail Group and later on the Global, Industrial Services Group. Mr Facon rejoined the M&A group in 2005 where he remains focused on the Consumer and Services Sectors.
Mr. Facon holds B.S. in Engineering from Syracuse University, M.S. in Applied Physics from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
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Kaoru Koyano
Head of Mergers & Acquisitions - Japan
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His M&A advisory experience of thirteen years includes; advisor to the Ministry of Postal Services and Telecommunications (MPT) on the reorganizarion of NTT into the holding company structure, advisor to Mitsu Petrolium Chemical on its merger with Mitsui Toatsu Chemical, advisor to Toppan Printing on the acquisition of Toppan Moore stake (JV with Moore, currently Toppan Forms), advisor to Sumitomo Chemical on the restructuring of Glaxo Japan (JV with Glaxo Wellcome), advisor to Toshiba on the formation of Mobile Communication Broadcasting, advisor to North Kyushu Coca-cola Bottling on the merger with Sanyo Coca-cola Bottling involving the capital injection from Coca-Cola USA, advisor to Toyota Motor Corporation on the valuation of Toyota-Astra Motor (TAM, JV with Astra Group in Indonesia), advisor to Asahi Breweries on the divestiture of Torii Pharmaceutical to Japan Tobacco, advisor to Hughes Electronics on the DirecTV Japan's merger with Sky PerfecTV, advisor to Canon on
its group strategies including the restructuring of Canon Chemical and Canon Components, advisor to Tokyo Electron on its acquisition of Super Critial Systems, advisor to Fuji Photo Film on its acquisition of additional 25% stake in Fuji Xerox, advisor to Sony on its broadband strategies ( including acquisition of JustNet and the merger of Sony Network Contents with AII), advisor to Hitachi on its divestiture of its CRT display business in Norh America to Thomson Multimedia, advisor to AMD on the formation of the flash memory JV with Fujitsu, advisor to Mitsubishi Chemical on its tender offer of Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation, advisor to Matsushita Electric Works in accepting Matsushita Electric industries' tender offer bid, advisor to PoweredCom in its merger with Fusion Communications, advisor to Fujitsu on its delisting of Fujitsu Support and Service (FSAS), advisor to Seiko Epson on its formation of TFT-LCD JV with Sanyo Electric, advisor to ABeam Consulting (former
Deloitte Tomatsu Consulting) on its sale to NEC, advisor to NTT on the merger of NTT Auto Leasing with Century Auto Leasing.
Mr. Koyano received his B.A. from Tokyo University and his M.B.A. and Master of Science in Statistics and Operations Research from New York University with distinction (Beta Gamma Sigma).
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Susan Saltzbart Kilsby
Managing Director
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Susan S. Kilsby is a Managing Director in the Investment Banking division of Credit Suisse, based in London. She is Chairman of the European Mergers & Acquisitions Group and a member of the Strategic Advisory Group in Europe (SAGE), a group of senior investment bankers who are focused on leading existing, and developing new, key client relationships across Europe, as well as mentoring bankers across the Investment Banking Department. Previously, Mrs. Kilsby was Head of the European M&A Group.
Mrs. Kilsby joined The First Boston Corporation, a predecessor company of Credit Suisse, in 1980 working in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group in New York until 1992. She later moved to London as Head of CSFB's European Consumer, Retail & Services group in Investment Banking and was named Head of Mergers & Acquisitions and Strategic Advisory in April 2002.
Mrs. Kilsby is a member of Credit Suisse's Diversity Advisory Board and Chairs the Investment Banking Diversity Advisory Council. She is also a member of Wellesley College's Business Leadership Council; serves on the Board of Advisors for the Yale School of Management International Institute for Corporate Governance; is Credit Suisse's representative to the Advisory Board of Opportunity Now; and serves on the Advisory Board of the UK Career Academy Foundation.
Mrs. Kilsby received her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1980 in Economics and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management in 1984.
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David Livingstone
Managing Director
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David Livingstone is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division, based in London. He is Head of the European Mergers & Acquisitions Group.
Mr. Livingstone joined Credit Suisse in January 2007 from HSBC where he was a Managing Director and Head of EMEA Investment Banking. Prior to that, Mr. Livingstone worked at Goldman Sachs 16 years in a variety of senior roles, including Head of the pan-European Industrials team, Head of Asia (ex-Japan) Mergers and Acquisitions and Head of Australian Investment Banking.
He holds a B.A Honours Degree in Economics from Macquarie University in Sydney and an M.A. in Law from Jesus College, Cambridge.
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Boon Sim
Head of Americas Mergers & Acquisitions
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Boon Sim is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse and Head of Americas Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior to his current position, he co-headed the Bank's Technology Group based in New York. Mr. Sim is a member of the Bank's Investment Banking Management Council and a member of the Bank's Investment Banking Advisory Committee, which oversees the rendering of M&A opinions and formal advice. He has advised both multi-national and domestic clients on numerous, complex M&A assignments in transactions over $400 billion, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures, special committee assignments, dual class and targeted stock plans, proxy contests and hostile transactions.
Mr. Sim has advised companies such as IBM, Bayer, Compaq, Deloitte & Touche, Dun & Bradstreet, HCA, Microsoft, J.C. Penney, Fairchild, First Data, Fiserv, CVS Corp., Avaya, Digex, Gates Rubber, American Cyanamid, Raytheon, Borden, Brooks Automation, RiverDelta, Trading Edge, Intersil, Claxson Interactive, Latin America Money Services, 7/24 Solutions, Agfa, Emcore, Rhône-Poulenc Rorer, American Maize, Reynolds & Reynolds, Fischer & Porter, Investcorp, H.B. Fuller, Rare Medium, ChipPAC and SunGard.
Notable transaction awards include Investment Dealer's Digest ("IDD") 2006 M&A and Healthcare Deal of the Year for the $33 billion sale of HCA, 2005 Overall Deal of the Year and Private Equity Deal of the Year for the $11 billion sale of SunGard to a consortium of private equity firms and Institutional Investor 2002 Deal of the Year for the $7.5 billion acquisition of Aventis Corp Science by Bayer AG.
Prior to joining The First Boston Corporation, a predecessor company of Credit Suisse, Mr. Sim was a Design Engineer at Texas Instruments focusing on semiconductor design. Mr. Sim holds advanced engineering and private & public policy degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University. He graduated first in his undergraduate class at the National University of Singapore.
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