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Window of opportunity opens up for Paris with Saudi navy

Having been squeezed out of major naval contracts under Mohammed bin Salman, French defence leaders might be able to nudge their way back in, via a sector where their Spanish rivals lag behind.

Inside Saudi Binladin Group's secret restructuring

WPP-owned comms group rues messy split from sports minister

Heeding the government's call to set up in the kingdom, a raft of new PR agencies have beefed up their Riyadh operations. But Hill & Knowlton, the dominant player in the region, has a cautionary tale to tell its competitors about how to transact with the kingdom's power brokers, in its case, the sports minister himself.

Caisse des Dépôts/Alain Bauer case rocks Franco-Saudi business

A key leader in Franco-Saudi investments was sentenced in early March, along with the star defendants of the Caisse des Dépôts favouritism case. Intelligence Online understands that the Saudi sovereign wealth fund PIF had quietly anticipated the situation.