Credit Suisse Said to Hire Deutsche Bank's Birchenough for M&A

Credit Suisse Group AG hired Deutsche Bank AG’s Don Birchenough as co-head of mergers and acquisitions for the telecommunications, media and technology group in the Americas, said a person with direct knowledge of the situation.

Birchenough, who most recently was head of telecom and media M&A at Deutsche Bank in New York, will start at Credit Suisse in August, said the person, who declined to be identified because the move hasn’t been made public. John Gallagher, a spokesman for Deutsche Bank, confirmed Birchenough’s departure. Duncan King, a spokesman for Credit Suisse, declined to comment.