Europe, Russia
Legal trio leads Russian oligarchs' anti-sanction campaigns in Brussels

Russia
Critical technologies: the big winners in 'patriotic' anti-sanctions measures

The upheavals generated by the federal government's import substitution policy on Russia's IT and communications market is mainly benefiting a small number of companies in the sector.

Cyprus, Russia, United Kingdom, United States
Abramovich Jr's networks, part 1: from Swansea football to Russian aeronautics

One of sanctioned oligarch Roman Abramovich's seven children, Arkady, is maintaining a sprawling business empire, weaving a web of offshore companies that Intelligence Online has traced.

France, Russia
Air Liquide grapples with internal dissent as it tries to pull out of Russia

Air Liquide, still waiting for the official authorisation to withdraw from Russia, is facing internal discord between its compliance department and the management of its subsidiary Air Liquide Russia.

Spotlight | United States
FBI alerted of Russian oil trader Niels Troost's secret US business interests

Troost has largely gone underground since being named in news reports as a key energy broker for Russia. He denies charges of sanctions busting or any illegal activities, but recently cancelled a trip to New York, according to a source.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Royal Navy vet Bennett at Capita, Governances, Gateley Omega, Xirius helps EU

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, Paris and Brussels.

London Royal Navy vet Bennett's success as defence sector consultant

Paris Governances cuts ties with Lagardère auditor

London Gateley Omega, the investigative arm of Ukrainian recovery fund lawyers

Brussels Maingain helps defend European sanctions

France, United Kingdom
Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman lead the charge against sanctions

The two businessmen are each trying as much to distance themselves from the Russian government as to take on sanctions imposed on them by the UK and the European Union - and they are using the same circles of French and British lawyers to do so.

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Sanctions race generates new market for investigation and assistance work for oligarchs

Londongrad has gone into a frenzy since the start of the Western riposte to Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. The entire ecosystem which has grown up around the oligarchs is working to help them escape sanctions and limit the reputational and financial damage they are expected to cause.