After two years of complete renovation, Mirabaud teams are returning to their Paris headquarters. Its Director reflects on the changes, some of them structural, that he led.
It took almost two years. Spanning from September 2023 to December 2025, the full renovation of the “13 Hoche” building has enabled around sixty Mirabaud employees to move back into their Paris headquarters just before Christmas. In addition to around thirty Private Bankers, the redesigned space now brings together Mirabaud Asset Management portfolio managers and the experts from Mirabaud Advisors, the Group’s corporate advisory arm.
This 1,600 sq m building is a former private mansion built in the mid-19th century, once owned by one of the Mirabaud families. However, the premises, which have housed the French branch since 2003, retained characteristics of residential use: compartmentalised layouts hindering team fluidity, individual offices, insufficient shared spaces. Stéphane Jaouen set out to reshape the new spaces to make them more client-focused – serving business leaders – by offering a service platform based on closer collaboration between the Group’s teams. “While the three reception rooms on the first floor have undergone minimal changes, the three upper levels have been completely renovated and topped with a fifth floor that did not previously exist,” he explains.
Fluidity
Today, the building’s “horizontal” layout has been reworked to give way to a shared living space on the ground floor, opening onto an inner courtyard fitted with outdoor lounge areas. At the far end, the former stables now house a law firm.
Workspaces are now fully open-plan. “The suspended ceilings have been removed to create a very generous ceiling height,” notes Stéphane Jaouen. The new top-floor extension now features a reception area overlooking the rooftops of Paris. “We designed this space as a venue for business lunches and dinners with our Clients, or even as a signing room,” he adds.
Echoing the Group’s Geneva headquarters, its other branches and its Luxembourg subsidiary, contemporary art adorns the premises: “This dialogue between past and present reflects the message we convey to our entrepreneurial Clients, where tradition and modernity coexist.”
