Thursday, November 6, 2008
When I joined Lehman in April 2007, the systems and processes imposed by the US part of our global team were very messy and required a large amount of man-power just to keep going. The philosophy seemed to be “long hours = good work.”
I’ve long wanted to clean this all up, but it’s just not [...]
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Well, actually it’s my old job, although not completely.
So Lehman Brothers Holding filed for Chapter 11 a couple of weeks ago, the US bit got bought whole by Barclays Capital, and Nomura International are in the process of buying the Equities plus other bits of Lehman UK, the whole (I think) of Lehman Japan and also Lehman [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
But it feels like Friday already - been a busy and tiring week; last week too.
Today is going to be very busy with already-planned interviews and the first day of the Lehman/Nomura merge, so half the day in the City and half in Canary Wharf.
Fortunately, I’ve got a long weekend coming up, with an Audi [...]
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
So today we find out that the European Lehman business was acquired by Nomura. We lose the US, but keep with the Lehman guys in Tokyo.
Our new CEO, Kenichi san, looks like a top geezer too.
Interesting times, lots of opportunity, and quite a few relieved faces around here.
Friday, September 19, 2008
So it’s been a week and we’re still moving.
In fact we were quite busy today. Can’t really say what about, though.
It’s certainly an experience.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Well, not quite, there are a few people around, but not as many as last week, or yesterday for that matter.
If Barclays (or anyone) are going to buy any assets here they’ll have to hurry up, else there will be no one around to work it.
For now, another game of scrabble is in order, I [...]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
So it seems that Barclays (the UK company based only a few mins walk from Lehman UK) has bought the Lehman US Investment Bank along with over 9,000 people. In the US.
That’s nice, but it kind of leaves us and our friends in Asia and Europe in an odd situation. After all, we are were [...]
Monday, September 15, 2008
I’ve never worked for a company before that went bankrupt whilst I was still employed by it.
Going to be an interesting day.
