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Jones Day bolsters Paris finance team with Gide hires

To be clear, I don't have a vested interest; and I appreciate your defence of Gide's management -- being perhaps slightly less parochial as would seem at first glance. And perhaps there is room indeed for an international firm striving as an alternative to the MC/Wall Street model. I'm just not buying it myself. You can challenge whether Gide's management is too centralised and/or not international enough. But what do you make of the argument that Gide doesn't have any significant US or UK presence?? And its being stuck somewhere between the global firm model and the regional firm model, with insufficient profitability to strive in the former and excessive ambitions to succeed in the latter?? As a poster said, "it can either go back to being a mid-size European firm focusing on a few key markets [in which case it could succeed, I would say], or merge with a global giant [in which case it could no longer trumpet itself as a 'different' firm]". What's the alternative? How do you see things working out -- other than saying that "anglo-saxon" firms have their own issues?

9-Oct-2012

8:43 pm