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...It also said newer laws provided enough protection against deforestation....
...Now Minc and Elliott have one thing in common: they’ve both antagonised Minc’s former client, billionaire entrepreneur Vincent Bolloré, the majority shareholder in global media group Vivendi....
...Herbert Smith Freehills, a law firm, has promoted Leopoldo Gonzalez-Echenique to partner in its corporate division in Madrid....
...The preliminary meeting between the two was brokered by another énarque: Alain Minc, an early backer/mentor of president Macron and a longtime adviser to Naouri....
...The Peugeot family was advised by Etienne Boursican, a corporate lawyer, who happens to be Mr Fillon’s son-in-law....
...Rebel Socialist MPs, meanwhile, opposed the law because it was too rightwing....
...An angry protest movement also continues to fight the president’s law to allow gay marriage. … But Mr Hollande appears remarkably sanguine....
...“It’s not the fines themselves that are problematic,” says Antonio José Monteiro at the Pinheiro Neto law firm in São Paulo....
...The president had pledged to overturn the law as part of his drive to revitalise the economy, encapsulated in his famous slogan “work more to earn more”....
...“He is one of the last survivors of the old system of French capitalism, where a few set the laws and operated within a very small network. That’s now finished,” says a blue-chip company director....
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