Merger will create powerful force.(Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Credit Suisse)

Banker, The, October, 2000 by Shearlock, Peter

Peter Shearlock looks at what kind of combined creature will be produced by the merger between Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette

One statistic you will not find in the mass of data produced by Credit Suisse First Boston and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette to explain their pending merger: the number of DU directors and staff who have been granted a taste of the action in the highly successful private equity and mezzanine funds run by the firm's US merchant banking operation. A DU spokesperson will only say that it "cuts across the firm at various levels".

DU has long rewarded senior people by giving them shares in its private equity funds. It is not alone in that. Even Chase Manhattan, still a "wannabe" in investment banking, started...

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