As Brexit looms, Paris gets into ease-of-business mode

Hundreds of financial companies may need to relocate thousands of London-based workers before Britain leaves the European Union by the end of March 2019

The phone rings a lot at Paris Region Entreprises, a one-stop shop for companies deciding whether to move employees to the City of Light. Typically, callers ask about visas and minutiae of employment law. But not long ago, an executive from Japan called with a stumper: Where, he asked, are the dancing clubs?

“It was a certain kind of club that nobody here had ever heard of,” said Robin Rivaton, the organisation’s chief executive. “Kind of a social club for executives and their wives. One of the guys here called around and found one in the western part of Paris.”