France
Dessenne hits Silk Road with Oriol

France, Russia, UAE
Guillaume de Villiers takes luxury property outfit Barnes and security and intelligence firm Oriol to Dubai

Guillaume de Villiers, a veteran of private security and luxury property in Russia, is prospecting in Dubai, a safe haven for wealthy Russians fleeing Moscow and Western sanctions.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Quinlan turns to Newsweek, Treliant at Exigen, Beth with Oriol, Boulègue at Audere, Kerley joins Evelyn Partners

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to London, Washington and Paris.

Washington Journalist-hungry Quinlan hires Newsweek reporter

Washington Treliant poaches exec from Exiger to increase corporate intelligence capacities

Paris Battesti loses Dessenne but still with Beth

London/Paris Post-Soviet expert Boulègue joins Audere and CEPA

London Kerley joins Evelyn Partners

France
Erys Group caught up in investigation into private security arms breaches in New Caledonia

On 24 August, gendarmes in Noumea questioned five employees of French private security operator Erys Group as part of a preliminary investigation into breaches of French regulations on private security agents bearing arms. Erys Group itself has since taken legal action against one of its employees.

France
Ex-Erys executive launches new private security firm Amyna

A number of former Erys people have taken over some of the private security firm's contracts.

France
Erys struggles to retain clients

Erys Group, which is caught up in a shareholder dispute [...]

France
Erys: divorce finalised between Dessenne and Gerardin

Arnaud Dessenne left Erys Group, the private security firm he [...]

France
High tension between Dessenne and Gérardin at Erys

Arnaud Dessenne was ousted as chairman of Erys Group, which [...]

Spotlight | France
Struggling private security sector faces further concentration

Confronted with their traditional clients' harsh budget cuts and in the absence of solid alternative revenue streams, a number of French private security firms look set to merge or fold.

France
Erys teams with Ouattara's spin doctor

According to our sources, the Brussels-based holding company Linq Cap [...]

France
Battesti exfiltered from China to interior ministry

Eric Battesti, a commissioner who used to be with France's [...]