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Credit Suisse Appoints New Infrastructure and Renewables Head

  • Kaufman’s group will work with sector-focused bankers
  • Infrastructure is fastest-growing asset class, executives say

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Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg
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Credit Suisse Group AG appointed managing director Jonathon Kaufman as the head of its new global infrastructure, utility and renewables group.

“Infrastructure was the fastest-growing asset class in 2019, raising over $90 billion, and continues to be of strategic importance,” investment-banking chief David Miller, and Malcolm Price, who oversees the new group as well as financial sponsors and leveraged finance origination, said in a memo to staff Wednesday. Infrastructure funds have more than $200 billion to invest, they said in the memo.