Spotlight | United Kingdom
Trouble comes in threes for Burford and star investigator Daniel Hall

United States, Venezuela
Venezuela arrests business partner of Alex Saab as he awaits trial in US on charges of corrupt ties to President Nicolas Maduro

Saab and partner Alvaro Pulido are both citizens of Colombia, a close US ally. Before setting up shop in Venezuela, they forged a global business empire at home, where they won influential political friends and allegedly laundered money.

Spotlight | United Kingdom, United States
Wirecard, Adani, NMC: private investigators gain from short-selling explosion

The twists and turns of the Wirecard affair and the recent stock crash of India's Adani have highlighted that, in the short-selling world, private investigation firms can either be on the side of the attacker or the target.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
GPW/Schillings, Exiger Diligence, Nardello, Banque de France, Opus Pear Tree

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

London Irwin leaves Nardello

Paris Banque de France recruits new security chief

London GPW nabs investigator Waters from Schillings

New York Exiger exodus

London Opus Pear Tree assists gold giant Petropavlovsk

United Kingdom
Burford will operate from private investigation to legal services

Announced at the end of June, Burford Capital 's acquisition of the law firm PCB Litigation marks the growing power [...]

United Kingdom, United States
Ankura hires Rob Capper in London

In addition to the arrival in April of Robert Capper, [...]

United Kingdom, United States
Burford keeps intelligence department despite turmoil

Under attack from short seller Muddy Waters, the litigation finance [...]

United States
K2 Intelligence accompanies Jules Kroll into litigation funding

K2 Intelligence, the corporate intelligence firm headed by Jeremy Kroll, has taken a stake in the litigation funding firm BlueWhite [...]

United States
Relativity handles sensitivee-discovery cases

In the legal battle between Novoship, a subsidiary of the [...]

United Kingdom, United States
PDVSA gets investigative help in case against Glencore and co.

An appeal lodged in the US in August by PDVSA US Litigation Trust, a financial vehicle claiming to act on [...]

United Kingdom
K2 investigator joins Hall at Burford

An advisor for the past five years at the London [...]

United Kingdom
Burford cuts ties with Nicholas Fairfax

After many years' loyal service, last month Nicholas Fairfax stepped [...]

United Kingdom
Litigation funders explore ways to secure intelligence

A sector that is enjoying a boom in the UK and is starting to take off in France, litigation funding [...]

France, United States
Muddy Waters hits Casino with ex-CIA spy

The aggressive short-seller Muddy Waters is piling the pressure on French supermarket chain Casino. In its latest brief dated March [...]