Doyen’s Anglo-Saxon move shocks Paris lawyers

The restructuring of the Paris legal scene took an unexpected turn late last year, whenone of the city’s leading French M&Apartners finally gave up on his old firm anddid what his colleagues had spent the lasttwo years avoiding – he joined an Anglo-Saxon firm.

Gerard Mazet was the senior partner of once dominant Jeantet & Associés, and his decision to join the Paris office of Wall Street’s mighty Sullivan & Cromwell shook his old firm to its foundations.