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The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Chertoff Group, K2, Pallas, Eyal Weiss

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

WashingtonChertoff Group hires Mark Esper, Bryan Cunningham vanishes

New YorkNeelam Sharma leaves K2

WashingtonDonnelly gets Pallas Industries to change name to Castelion

Washington/Tel AvivEyal Weiss and US-based Forward Risk part company

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Herminius, Nardello, Raedas and Naftogaz

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

Kyiv/New YorkNaftogaz reshuffles investigators

New YorkBryan Mabry takes over US operations at Herminius

LondonAbby Stanglin leaves Nardello

London/WashingtonRaedas loses two investigators

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Ex-CRG in Riyadh, Green joins Westexec, G3, Seladore Legal, Geos

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 and London via Paris.

Riyad/WashingtonMike Wolff takes on MbS's projects

WashingtonBiden's NSC newbie heads over to Westexec

LondonAnna Gumowska leaves K2 for G3

LondonSeladore Legal at front line of Russian oligarch tiff

ParisGeos invests in Other Consulting Solutions

United Kingdom
Anthesis-Wallbrook merger relaunches ESG investigations market

Demand for protection against reputational risk and the need to keep up with Western regulatory developments means that environmental, social and governance investigations have become a fast-growing niche for the corporate intelligence companies.

France
James Tamblin leaves BlueVoyant to fly solo again with Ecognito

Two years after his cyber consultancy Marclay Associates was bought by BlueVoyant, the ex-British intelligence officer James Tamblin has once again branched out on his own with Ecognito.

United States
K2 investigates the world of beauty

The hair and skincare company Head Kandy claims that founder Kayla McNeill fraudulently billed it for lavish personal expenses. A K2 report the beauty company submitted itemized a long list of charges the investigative firm deemed to be improper, which McNeill denied.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
K2, ENEC and Peterson, Guidehouse

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, New York and Abu Dhabi.

New YorkK2 quietly demotes co-CEO

Abu DhabiConsultant Charles Peterson returns to nuclear

WashingtonEx-staffer takes Guidehouse to court

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.

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BlueVoyant in unfair dismissal spat, two ex-Met chiefs team up, GEOS lands Dushanbe contract

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 Delaware, London and Brussels.

Dover, Delaware Cyberfirm BlueVoyant sued by former CCO

London Hogan-Howe teams up with ex-Met man at Intelligent Sanctuary

Brussels GEOS and Red Line land strategic EU contract in Tajikistan

Bulgaria, Serbia, United States
Bulgarian oligarch enlists US lobbyists' help in battling Sofia authorities

Bulgarian former banker Tsvetan Vassilev, exiled in Belgrade, is actively lobbying in Washington against his powerful opponents in Sofia. US consulting firms and an Austria-based consultant are helping him.

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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, United Kingdom, United States
Burton moves to Nardello, Sene sanction confirmed, Crystal Blockchain sets up in London, Kikkar debuts in asset recovery, Avisa expands in DC

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 New York, London, Paris and Washington.

United States
Succession crisis at K2 Integrity is straight out of 'Succession'

HBO has announced that its hit series "Succession" will return in early 2023. Those who can't wait can tune in to K2 Integrity, where a real life father-son drama starring Jules and Jeremy Kroll has led to internal strife, staff defections and US operations that are haemorrhaging money to the tune of $1m in losses per month, a well-placed source estimates.

Ukraine, United States
James Glassman coordinates anti-Russian influence campaign for Ukraine oligarch Akhmetov

In a campaign ordered by Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov's SCM, documents supplied by DCI Group to the US Department of Justice reveal the extent of efforts deployed by Glassman Entreprises to communicate about Russia's plundering of Ukrainian cereal, steel and minerals.

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Suppelsa at Raedas, Lord Vaizey in crypto, ESL does PR

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 Istanbul, London and Paris.

Istanbul/London Raedas poaches from super lawyer Amsterdam

London Influential Lord Vaizey tries his hand at cryptocurrency

Paris ESL boss works on his image

United States
K2 shaken by Tom Bock's departure

In a consolidating investigations marketplace, JS Held has recently poached a senior executive from the heart of K2's operations in its fief of New York.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
ADIT, Hockley, the UNDP, new Jordanian-British firm

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 report from London, New York and Paris.

LondonEmail leak hunter Jake Hockley sets up new company.

United StatesUNDP sets up counter-terrorism and money laundering investigations division.

LondonNew Jordanian-British corporate intelligence company.

FranceADIT holds on to Nouvelle Aquitaine intelligence contract.