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Bankrolling high-stakes lawsuits

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RosettiStarr, Farrant, Audere, ICSID/Paris Arbitration Week

Washington
ICSID establishes framework for litigation funding.

London
Audere's new boss Oliver Blackmore gets into private security.

Washington
RosettiStar hires Joe Andrews.

London
Farrant looks to Africa.

United States
Ankura's forensic investigations department in court

Accusations of sexual and racial discrimination in the forensics department led to an internal investigation in Ankura's New York office.

United States
Grant Thornton scoops up another Bank of China expert

New York investigator Brent Robinson has joined the investigation branch [...]

United States
Summer promotions at Control Risks Group

Control Risks Group (CRG) has promoted a number of people [...]

United Kingdom
Grant Thornton, FTI investigators face off in Kazakh intrigue

Kazakhstan Kagazy (KK), which claims to be the biggest paper recycling company in Central Asia, won a London High Court [...]

United States
Treasury centralises financial co-operation

The US Department of Treasury is to centralise information obtained from financial intelligence units it has helped to create in [...]

United Kingdom
Litigation venture capital suffers double-whammy

Gulf Keystone's High Court victory on September 10, establishing its [...]

Kurdistan, United Kingdom
Kurdish oil king Kozel under pressure

A pitched battle is on the cards on July 25 when the oil company Gulf Keystone, which made Kurdistan’s largest [...]

United Kingdom
Cadogan v hedge funds

Suing its former CEO Mark Tolley (IOL 617), the British [...]

Europe, United States
Traders discover industrial espionage

Hedge funds and banks specialising in high-frequency trading, a business that involves heavy start-up costs, monitor each other actively.

United Kingdom
Hedge Funds Seek to Prevent Leaks

Laid low by the financial crisis, hedge funds in the United Kingdom are trying every dodge to ensure that nobody [...]

Spotlight | United Kingdom, United States
Investigative Funds to Follow Hedge Funds?

The boom in alternative investments (debt, emerging markets and the like) has partially broken down the barrier between intelligence and finance. Specializing in operations on unregulated markets and in "frontier" countries, some hedge funds that call frequently on the services [.

United Kingdom
New Niche for Forensic Risks

The investigative firm Forensic Risk Alliance holds a major stake in the first company to launch itself on the litigation funding market in the United Kingdom.

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Setback for litigation funder Calunius

Supported by the litigation funding firm Calunius, construction firm KCI has had its request for arbitration with Gabon rejected.

Pozzo di Borgo townhouse up for auction?

As reported by the West African Newsletter (WAN 784; WAN [...]