G3 expands internationally thanks to new secret shareholder

• WASHINGTON - Ergo brings in a Navy SEAL

• NEW YORK - Ex-Diligence directors reunite at Vantage

• LONDON - G3 adds muscle to asset-tracking team

• LONDON - Silverbridge poaches from the Met

• LONDON - Ex-Bellingcat manager Ostanin has another crack at corporate intelligence

• PARIS - Amarante establishes foothold in Belgian diplomacy in Africa

• PARIS - GEOS increases oil and gas security offering

• FRANCE - Baubigeat Zeller boosts sanctions management capacity

SecureValue rebuilt from former G3 team 

Two investigators previously with G3 and Kinnevik, the Swedish fund that owned the corporate intelligence firm, have launched their own firm, SecureValue, working with Ken MacDonald, the veteran lawyer of human rights cases and other lengthy investigations.

Door slammed on SLAPP filed against G3 by a former surveillance target 

The UK courts have dismissed a complaint against investigation firm G3, putting an end to a legal vendetta launched by a rival of one of the company's customers.

G3 reorganises its international offices network 

The London-based Good Governance Group has made changes to its office network by moving its offices in the UK's capital and Germany, and opening a new office in Singapore.

National Security Secretariat execs courted by private sector 

The NSS, created in 2010 to liaise with the prime minister on intelligence policy, is a hotbed for those who want to work for private groups.