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

France, Russia
From Monaco to Dubai, the revival of French investigators specialising in the Russian market

The tense political climate and sanctions generated by the war in Ukraine have forced French private business investigators specialising in Russia to adapt. A number of them, such as the firm TKM Consulting, have shifted their bases to Dubai.

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
Dessenne hits Silk Road with Oriol

Arnaud Dessenne, the former president of the private security firm Erys Group, is founding a new firm in the sector, [...]

France
CIFAL, in receivership but still holding on

Although it is still open for business, in a turn of events that has taken the Franco-Russian business community by surprise, CIFAL, the business diplomacy firm that specialises in the former USSR countries, went into voluntary receivership on 30 September.

France, Russia
Rusafrika, Franco-Russian Africa vehicle

Rusafrika, a new Moscow-based business consultancy, is hoping to divert Russian capital fleeing the country to African countries, most of [...]