Jefferies just hired 5 big-name tech bankers from Credit Suisse

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Jefferies just poached five top technology-investment bankers from Credit Suisse.

All five were previously managing directors at Credit Suisse.

The new hires include:

• Cully Davis joins Jefferies as a managing director and the head of West Coast technology investment banking, and the vice chairman of equity-capital markets. Davis was previously cohead of the Americas equity-capital markets' origination group at Credit Suisse.
• Bill Brady is joining as vice chairman of Jefferies and chairman of technology-investment banking. Brady was previously chairman of the global technology-investment banking group at Credit Suisse.
• Steve West joins as a managing director and global head of software-investment banking. West was previously cohead of software-investment banking at Credit Suisse.
• Cameron Lester joins as a managing director, the global head of internet-investment banking, and a global cohead of technology-investment banking. Lester was previously head of global internet-investment banking at Credit Suisse.
• John Metz is joining Jefferies as a managing director and global head of enterprise-investment banking. Metz was previously head of global enterprise-technology banking at Credit Suisse.

Yahoo Finance's Julia La Roche first reported the hires.

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