Ardian, Namea, legionnaires, Alaco, GEOS

• WASHINGTON - Nardello loses cyber chief.
  

• PARIS - BPCE strengthens security with financial intelligence specialist.

• LONDON - Alaco expands with Liberia contract.

• PARIS - Forensic investigators network.
  

Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund to take further step into infrastructure with stake in Heathrow 

Saudi Arabia, which is determined to take control of a number of key international infrastructures, has just acquired a majority stake in Heathrow Airport, the biggest airport in the UK.

Global Diwan's annual forum on French Riviera to have Saudi focus 

The Global Diwan business club's annual forum in Nice on 8 and 9 September will place a strong emphasis on Riyadh, with a large panel of political and business guests from the Middle East expected to attend.

• PARIS - Sagard completes stake purchase of ADIT.
  

• LONDON - Chatham House director moves into geopolitical consulting. 

• NEW YORK - New due diligence director at JS Held. 

• LONDON - Wallbrook's cyber director moves to Reliance ACSN. 

• NEW YORK - Quinlan takes pick of K2 experts.

• KYIV - Cosa Solutions sets up security-stamped advisory board. 

Tighter controls on the way over defence and intelligence officials switching to the private sector 

Among the many legislative reforms to be put forward in France's future revised military planning law, there is a proposal to keep tighter control of armed forces ministry officials looking to move into the private sector.

Ex-CIA agent Dan Hoffman joins CT Group in Washington 

The Washington office of the intelligence division of political strategists Mark Textor and Lynton Crosby's CT Group has recruited Daniel Hoffman, a media-friendly former CIA officer in Eurasia.

• NEW YORK - K2 waits for payment by ExWorks
  

• PARIS/RIYADH - Al Ula gets a new security consultant
  

• PARIS/BRUSSELS/LONDON - International SOS take on EU officials' travel security
  

• PARIS/LONDON - Caspar-Fille-Lambie details his lobbying at Babcock
  

• LONDON - Control Risks partner moves to EY

• WASHINGTON - Ankura close to Biden administration.

• WASHINGTON - JS Held gets into crypto-investigation.
  

• LONDON - Alaco closes security practice.

• LONDON - Wallbrook loses ESG director.
  

• PARIS - Axiantis hires Egyptian major Middle Eastern contracts veteran.
  

• NEW YORK - Nardello seeks new London bureau chief
  

• LONDON - Adrian Stones quits Alaco
  

• NEW YORK - JS Held recruits from Kroll

• LONDON - The GPW deal in numbers

• WASHINGTON - Ex-US Air Force investigator sets up on his own
  

• WASHINGTON - Ex-CIA official Ameer Shalaby launches intelligence tradecraft consultancy

• SAN DIEGO - RosettiStarr hires ex-hacks

• LONDON - RAF veteran launches consulting career

• FRANCE - Gourdault-Montagne steps down as chairman of Avisa Partners' ethics committee
  

Gary Creighton to help Ricklefs' Namea Group grow in the Gulf 

Australian ex-soldier Gary Creighton, an Iraq veteran who now works in the Emirati business world, has joined the advisory board of Norman Ricklefs' Namea Group, the successor to Iraq Advisory Group.