In less than four months, the Indian-Singaporean food trader Olam has gone from Gabon's go-to partner to the discreet shareholder of investment vehicles Arise Ports & Logistics (Arise P&L), Arise Infrastructure and Arise Industrial. Yet despite this spectacular transformation, the firm still works with the same posse of consultants, the vast majority of whom are French and often former civil servants.
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