CSFB buy-out chief plans new fund

Thompson Dean, head of the leveraged buyout unit at Credit Suisse First Boston, is leaving the firm and plans to take 15 colleagues with him to start a new fund.

He will start the new fund, Avista Capital Partners, with Steven Webster, a Houston-based energy specialist, OhSang Kwon, David Durkin, Larry Pickering, David Burgstahler and Jimmy Finkelstein, Bloomberg reported, citing people close to the situation.

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