Vincent Bollore is from a well-off family from Brittany, and he graduated with a Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree from Universite Paris X Nanterre. Bollore started his investment career as a bank trainee at investment bank Edmond de Rothschild. He is a well-known corporate raider in France who has succeeded in making money by taking large stakes in French listed companies, in particular the building and construction group Bouygues, where he left with a sizeable capital gain after a power-struggle.