• by Larissa Faw , February 25, 2021

The&Partnership is opening a new Los Angeles office to house operations for both the shop and its media agency m/SIX (jointly owned with GroupM). This new office now joins NYC, Toronto, and Paris, among others, in which the two agencies share space. 

Shabnum Palomba has been tapped to lead the LA location, with responsibility for overseeing both m/SIX and The&Partnership teams. She was previously a client partner at AKQA, overseeing media and strategy teams working on the firm’s Anheuser Busch, Visa Global, YouTube, Clif Bar and Wynn Las Vegas accounts, among others.

The new office is located in the LA neighborhood of Playa Vista.  Staff are currently working remotely, with the doors set to officially open once it has been deemed safe to resume in-person operations.

As many within Adland debate working conditions post-pandemic, this new location reflects The&Partnership’s commitment to the physical office as a “locus for creativity and community.”

In fact, the agency’s New York office has been open for staff that have wanted to go in (subject to a variety of physical distancing and health protocols) and while work is still predominantly virtual, there has been a very positive response to the in-office working option.

“While the past year has shown there’s a lot to love about remote work, there are still many aspects of the in-person experience that have been sorely missed,” said Andrew Bailey, CEO, North America at The&Partnership.