[Mizoguchi]

Excuse my ignorance. Still feels excessive for a global company. I worked for a handful of multinationals for many years and had the opportunity to live in many parts of the world including. .. yes, Japan. I know by experience a global workforce doesn't mean duplication of business units and language/culture is not an excuse to have them. Developer groups for each region? What? Compliance and legal is not necessarily as big as you would think, unless you are perhaps a pharmaceutical. In my latest company, a large manufacturing company with deals worth billions we handled compliance for the entire US and Canada out of a small office in Philadelphia with the support of a small legal firm from NY,if there were more than 20 guys in that office I would be surprised.