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Credit Suisse has hired Chris Gaertner from Bank of America Merrill Lynch as a high-ranking technology banker, the firm announced in an internal memorandum obtained by DealBook on Tuesday.

When he starts in July, Mr. Gaertner will become a managing director and the head of global corporate finance for the tech group, according to the memo from Mark Simonian and David Wah, Credit Suisse’s global co-heads of technology, media and telecom investment banking.

At Merrill Lynch, which he joined in 2005, Mr. Gaertner advised Autonomy when it sold itself to Hewlett-Packard and Lawson Software when it was sold to Golden Gate Capital. He led Merrill’s tech group from 2006 to 2008.

A Credit Suisse spokesman confirmed the contents of the memo, but declined further comment.

Here’s the memo:

Chris Gaertner Joins the Technology Group
We are pleased to announce that Chris Gaertner will join Credit Suisse as a Managing Director and Head of Global Corporate Finance for the Technology Group, effective in July. Chris will be based in San Francisco and will report to us.

Chris most recently was a Managing Director in the Technology Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Chris joined Merrill Lynch in 2005 and was Head of Merrill’s Technology Group from 2006 to 2008. He has client relationships with many of the leading software, enterprise systems and Internet companies in the technology industry, including...

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