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Urs Rohner (Image: Keystone) Rise and Fall of Credit Suisse s Urs Rohner a lender in crisis. finews.com looks back at the pugnacious trial lawyer’s last decade. Urs Rohner gave up the relative safety of a partnership at one of Zurich’s preeminent white-collar law firms to become CEO of a German media juggernaut in 2000. The chief counsel to Switzerland’s second-largest bank lured him back to the alpine nation in 2004. Once considered a candidate as CEO of Credit Suisse, Rohner’s path led to the Swiss bank’s board through his mentor, Walter Kielholz. Privately, Rohner has expressed doubts the bank can exist in its current form. ....