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About Credit Suisse

As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Credit Suisse offers advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 40,000 people. Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group, is a leading global financial services company headquartered in Zurich. Credit Suisse Group's registered shares (CSGN) are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CSR), in New York.
In its asset management business, Credit Suisse offers products across the full spectrum of investment classes, ranging from equities, fixed income, and multiple asset-class products to alternative investments such as real estate, hedge funds, private equity and volatility management. Credit Suisse's Alternative Investments business, part of its asset management business, is one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world with more than $100 billion of assets under management.
Credit Suisse's asset management business manages portfolios, mutual funds, and other investment vehicles for a broad spectrum of clients ranging from governments, institutions and corporations to private individuals. With offices focused on asset management in 18 countries, Credit Suisse's asset management business is operated as a globally integrated network to deliver the Bank's best investment ideas and capabilities to clients around the world.
The Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment Group ("CFIG"), which is part of Credit Suisse's Alternative Investments business, manages institutional private equity programs. CFIG is the market leader in separate accounts with $20 billion in private equity programs under management.
Credit Suisse's Energy Investment Banking Group provides advisory services and financing products to a wide range of clients in clean energy and environmentally sustainable businesses and markets. The Group's dedicated team of bankers has completed transactions on behalf of clients in ethanol production, solar and wind power generation. One such transaction included the $455 million IPO of Suntech Power Holdings, the first major China-based alternative energy company. Credit Suisse acted as the lead initial public offering underwriter on the transaction which was named the "Sustainable Energy Finance Deal of the Year" by the Financial Times.
Credit Suisse ranked #2 among global banks on the Project's Carbon Leadership Index, as well as other key sustainability indices such as the FTSE4Good Index, the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the Dow Jones STOXX Sustainability Index.
The Middle East is one of Credit Suisse's most important growth markets. Credit Suisse has been expanding its presence in the region to cater to clients, investment banking, private banking and asset management needs since 1978, when it established an office in Abu Dhabi.