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Erys, Hakluyt, Veracity, Amarante, KPMG

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Forward in London, New French legal defence association, Hakluyt, Simon Mann

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

LondonForward Global recruits more Tory consultants

ParisFive lawyers defence-focussed legal association

LondonHakluyt reshuffles its board

LondonDeath of Simon Mann, forerunner of armed services to states

France
After a recent period of upheaval, Erys is set to be reappointed to Noumea

France's Erys Group, which got rid of its chief executive in late July, is making a strong bid for new security contracts in New Caledonia.

Cyprus, Kazakhstan, United Kingdom
KPMG and Kroll forensic experts focus on Kazakh recycling

To defend their side of the legal wrangle between the previous and current management of Kazakh paper recycling firm Kagazy that came to a close in December, Maksat Arip and Tomas Werner sought help from forensics investigators at KPMG and Kroll.

United Kingdom
NSO affair threatens UK's cyber sales strategy in Gulf

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office's Gulf Strategy Fund is under pressure to justify its existence.

United Kingdom
West Sands founders take on new roles - one goes solo and one to Sibylline

Business intelligence experts Tamara Markarenko and Daphne Biliouri, who used to work together at West Sands Advisory, have returned to the market via different paths.

United States
FTI Consulting's stratcom team reborn at Dentons Global Advisors

Dentons' acquisition of business diplomacy firm Albright Stonebridge Group has reunited the members of FTI Consulting's old strategic communications team.

Saudi Arabia
Mohammed bin Salman counts on APCO to promote Saudi nuclear programme

According to our sources, the Emirati office of the American consulting firm APCO Worldwide recently won the contract to handle [...]

France
Erys: divorce finalised between Dessenne and Gerardin

Arnaud Dessenne left Erys Group, the private security firm he [...]

France
Anticip takes reins at Risk&Co

According to our sources, the takeover of the private security company Risk&Co by its rival Anticip will be signed in [...]

United Kingdom
Hakluyt Cyber boosted by Holdingham's rude health

Holdingham Group, the parent company of the corporate intelligence firm Hakluyt, continues to believe in its most recent entity, Hakluyt [...]

Iraq, United States
IDS: Civil advisors to combat Islamic State

The Civil-military mission support specialist IDS International has been hired to strengthen the anti-Daesh alliance between the Iraqi army and the Peshmerga.

France
Amarante takes Spanish lessons

Alexandre Hollander and Pierre-Antoine Lorenzi's private security company Amarante has acquired Interlira, which operates principally in South America.