They’ve Got Next: White Collar Fresh Face Janus Schutte

When Credit Suisse lost $5.5 billion in connection with Archegos Capital Management’s collapse last year, the Swiss bank wanted to know what went wrong.

That search for answers led to one of the more interesting and challenging matters that Janus Schutte has handled in his career.

Schutte was on the Paul, Weiss team hired by a special committee of the bank’s board to investigate. In a thorough inquiry conducted at blistering speed, the firm interviewed over 80 people and reviewed millions of documents, culminating in a 165-page report released July 2021, four months after Archegos’ collapse.

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