Spotlight | Iraq, Turkey
Iraq hires corporate investigators to pursue Turkish assets, despite high-level rapprochement between states

Iraq, United States
Rebuilding Iraq's financial system, part 1: K2 Integrity's ability to block international dollar payments prompts interference complaints

Not yet confirmed by the Iraqi government, K2's contract with the Central Bank of Iraq includes powers to verify, and decline, dollar payment requests made through a centralised platform. The new process has seen Iraqi financiers lamenting a lack of transparency.

Iraq, Turkey
Iraq's lawyers lobbied Washington to mediate resolution to its Turkey pipeline dispute

Partners at Cleary Gottlieb and at Vinson & Elkins, fighting aggressively on one front to enforce Iraq's ICC award against Turkey, have also been paying visits to the US State Department, which Iraq hopes might mediate a resolution to its long-running oil dispute.

United Kingdom
Ankura's asset tracking and investigation division loses its director

The head of the investigations and asset tracing department at Ankura Consulting in London, has abruptly left the firm and is now looking for business partners.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Nardello, Alaco, JS Held, GPW

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 Washington, London and New York.

New York Nardello seeks new London bureau chief

London Adrian Stones quits Alaco

New York JS Held recruits from Kroll

London The GPW deal in numbers

Washington Ex-US Air Force investigator sets up on his own