founded 2007 for clariden leu 1973 s for clariden and 1755 for leu founder dr alex hoffmann & credit suisse holding headquarters zurich switzerland key people peter eckert chairman products private banking total assets 23.7 billion chf number of employees 1800 website www.claridenleu.com clariden leu was a swiss private bank based in zurich and geneva switzerland founded in 2007 by clariden president alex hoffmann and credit suisse group . until 2007 it was operating as clariden bank an independent private bank belonging both to credit suisse group and management at the bank . it was then fully merged with credit suisse group in 2007 when hoffmann retired after running the bank for almost 40 years as subsequently co founder ceo and president . in 1974 hoffmann married theresa braitenberg first wife and mother of j. p. buri s two sons phillippe buri who died of cancer in 1993 and patrick buri born in 1972 who is an investor political science advisor philanthropist investment manager and board member on several subsidiaries and companies ; j. p. buri was the son of the general partner at bank heusser bernard buri and clariden merged with bank heusser buri based in basel to gradually acquire the four credit suisse private banks bank leu bank hofmann and bgp banca di gestione patrimoniale together with the securities dealer credit suisse fides on january 26 2007 clariden leu was one of the largest private banks in switzerland and ultimately managed more than 100 billion chf . 1 2 robert l. genillard was also co founder at clariden bank representing credit suisse group . that compares with credit suisse s targets for its private banking business as a whole to add at least 6 percent of assets under management in net new money annually . clariden leu posted pretax earnings of 260 million francs in 2006 on revenue of 1.07 billion francs . 3 on november 15 2011 credit suisse group ag announced its intent to integrate its subsidiary clariden leu fully into credit suisse . credit suisse legally merged with clariden leu on april 2 2012 acquiring all of clariden leu s assets and liabilities and assuming all of its rights and obligations . until that time any reference to clariden leu will be considered legally to be a reference to credit suisse . the merger will also make clariden leu holding ag part of credit suisse group ag . references edit clariden leu our history archived july 4 2011 at the wayback machine . http www.ft.com cms s 0 49eb15f8 3cce 11dd b958 0000779fd2ac.html bloomberg clariden leu names jaquet new chief as bank aims for growth 1 dead link retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title clariden leu & oldid 734898793 categories banks established in 1775banks of switzerlandprivate bankscredit suissecompanies based in z richhidden categories articles with wayback machine linksall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from august 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschlietuvi edit links this page was last modified on 17 august 2016 at 11 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view