Goldman Sachs' Paris partners: a JPMorgan superstar & aristocrat
Goldman Sachs announced that it had 95 new partners last week, the highest number promoted in nearly a decade. Five of those were in Paris, the first since a single nominee in 2014 - Pierre Hudry, who has since left the firm.
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Of Goldman's 2024 Paris partners, Anne Bizien is, perhaps, the most qualified across the entire firm. When she joined Goldman from JPMorgan back in 2018, Bizien was responsible for half of JPMorgan’s CAC40 relationships, including LVMH and Total, the largest and fifth largest firms by market cap in the index, respectively.
In an interview with Décideurs magazine back in 2022, Bizien noted that she had worked on the mergers of both Suez and Gaz de France as well as Renault and Nissan. She currently heads Goldman’s activism and shareholder advisory practice in EMEA, among other roles.
Also among the ranks is Marc d’Andlau. D’Andlau is a count and member of the Andlau family, a somewhat distant cousin (of the Austrian d’Andlau-Hombourg branch) of the branch which recently bought itself a shiny new chateau. That branch is more involved with Bank of America, however - which might lead to some interesting family reunions.
Goldman's d'Andlau is a co-head of Goldman’s presence in Paris, and was previously head of fixed income, currencies, and commodities (FICC) distribution in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
German banker Jans Meckel was made a partner at Goldman in Paris, too. Meckel is a Goldman lifer, having joined the firm in 2002 as an analyst and bounced around Frankfurt and London before settling in Paris where he currently heads up FICC derivatives origination for the EMEA region.
Two more Goldman lifers also joined the partnership in Paris – Marine Abiad and Sebastian Ayton. The two joined Goldman Sachs as analysts in 2010 and 2008. Abiad runs the equity distribution platform and Ayton runs interest rates products sales teams.
Although five is a lot of partners for the city, it isn't a huge sample size. The Parisians, however, are notably more female (40%) and home-grown (60%) than the overall class (27% and 29%, respectively).
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