Power Financial & GDF-Suez

The Globe and Mail, Eric Reguly, 4 September 2007The blockbuster merger of Suez SA and Gaz de France SA, formally announced yesterday, has put Montreal's billionaire Desmarais family at the centre of the world's third-largest power utility.The family's impeccable investment and political connections paid off: The Desmarais got there with a little help from their friends - Albert Fr�re, their