"We have a discriminating nature to the deals we have done, and we look atthem as if we hold the credits on our own balance sheet," Paul Calello, head ofCredit Suisse's investment bank, said at a press conference here.
Calello emphasized however that Credit Suisse always seeks to syndicate, orparcel out, the loans, not hold them itself.
His comments came in the context of the dramatic slowdown in leveraged loans,the typical mechanism for most private equity deals.
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