From August 1996 to October 2005 (amounting to 9 years and 3 months), Jeff Barcy was a Director at Credit Suisse. He commenced his banking career as a financial analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston. In addition, he worked in the Los Angeles office of Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette (DLJ). DLJ was afterwards acquired by Credit Suisse.

While at Credit Suisse, Mr. Barcy performed more than $20 billion of transactions for real estate companies. This included $5 billion of mergers and acquisitions and $15 billion of capital raises.