Laurent Budd

A subsidiary of Credit Agricole Cheuvreux SA (EP: ACA), Credit Agricole Cheuvreux North America, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm provides European equity research, execution services on international markets and broking for the private clientele of Credit Agricole's regional banks and LCL network. Their clients include: institutional investors and hedge funds, corporations and retail networks. In May 2013, Kepler Capital Markets SA completed the acquisition of Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux SA from Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank SA, a unit of Crédit Agricole SA. Kepler Capital Markets intends to combine its business with Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux under a new entity, Kepler Cheuvreux, in 2013, and will be headquartered in Paris. They will have offices in Amsterdam, Boston, Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, San Francisco, Stockholm, Vienna and Zurich.