This year Steve Foland deserves credit for building an outstanding Asian extension to CSFB's global tech franchise. He has methodically hired a team of outstanding tech bankers and is well placed now that the froth has gone out of the market. Let's face it, there have been some outstandingly bad Asian tech IPOs this year, and to their credit, CSFB managed to avoid allowing short-term considerations to sully its dominant global franchise with any of them. It may seem odd to give credit in these awards for turning down deals, but given what we saw this year, it is a very considered decision.
The fact that CSFB is the tech banker of...
