FTI Consulting's stratcom team reborn at Dentons Global Advisors

• PARIS - Former Erys bosses create Audacia. 

• TBILISI/WASHINGTON - GlobalPoint and Akerman helping Saakashvili in DC. 

• PARIS/LONDON/WASHINGTON - Former French ambassador Gérard Araud joins Portland, which lobbies for Qatar and Kazakhstan. 

• LONDON - Raedas sorts out its books.

How a small Lockheed squad helped the F-35 land in Berlin 

Consultants of the US defence giant used an unprecedented geopolitical conjuncture to secure a F-35 fighter jet order from the new German government.

• PARIS - Nathalie Felines makes private security comeback with Erys.

• LONDON - Hakluyt beefs up cyber activities.

• NEW YORK - Veracity Worldwide appoints veteran diplomat to advisory board.
  

• PARIS - Ex-Interlira and Amarante executives reteam at Movisafe.

• LONDON - KPMG probes Britain's 'climate finance' partners.
  

Russia makes a fresh attempt to get France to help it develop its AI research capacity  Free

In its haste to develop its artificial intelligence research and development capacity, Moscow is increasingly investing in Russian academic institutions and looking to develop partnerships with, among others, French AI research institute INRIA. Yet France remains wary.

French commandos drop interminable parachute programme 

The SMTCOPS programme entrusted to Safran in August 2016 is intented to provide French special forces paratroopers with new state-of-the-art parachute systems. But with it facing delays, some units have bypassed the defence procurement agency (DGA) and turned to other suppliers.

ERG predicts growth in financial operations in the business intelligence market 

In its 22 June market update, US merchant bank ERG Partners, which specialises in security and business intelligence, notes that financial operations have been increasing in the sector since the start of the year.

FTI makes new Dubai appointment 

FTI Consulting has hired Shahin Shamsabadi as managing director of

Former FBI investigators examined Bezos' iPhone for FTI 

FTI Consulting hired a crack team of former FBI Cyber Division investigators to probe the hacking of Amazon chief Jeff

Albright follows Lockheed and Co. to Vietnam 

The strategic consulting firm Albright Stonebridge hired Virginia Foote in June to advise on its activities in South-East Asia, particularly

New head of investigation at FTI 

According to our sources, Michael Pace is due to step down as the head of the Global Risk and Investigations