Urs Rohner
Overview
Urs Rohner is the General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer Credit Suisse and a member of the Executive Board (since June 2004). Mr. Rohner graduated from the Law School of the University of Zurich in 1983 and joined the Swiss law firm Lenz & Stahelin in the same year. From 1988 to 1989, he worked with Sullivan & Cromwell, a New York-based law firm, as a Foreign Associate before returning to Lenz & Stahelin, where he became a partner in 1992, focusing on capital markets, banking, competition and media law. Mr. Rohner is a member of the Zurich and New York bars. In 2000, he became Chief Executive Officer of ProSiebenMedia AG, Unterfohring, and later, after the merger with Sat1, Chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, Unterfohring, before joining Credit Suisse in June 2004. Mr. Rohner is a member of the Admission Board and of the Committee of the Admission Board of the SWX Swiss Exchange, Zurich, and serves on the Board of the Zurich Opera House.
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