Trouble comes in threes for Burford and star investigator Daniel Hall

• LONDON - Irwin leaves Nardello

• PARIS - Banque de France recruits new security chief
  

• LONDON - GPW nabs investigator Waters from Schillings
  

• NEW YORK - Exiger exodus
  

• LONDON - Opus Pear Tree assists gold giant Petropavlovsk 
  

Burford will operate from private investigation to legal services 

Announced at the end of June, Burford Capital 's acquisition of the law firm PCB Litigation marks the growing power

Ankura hires Rob Capper in London 

In addition to the arrival in April of Robert Capper,

Burford keeps intelligence department despite turmoil 

Under attack from short seller Muddy Waters, the litigation finance

K2 Intelligence accompanies Jules Kroll into litigation funding 

K2 Intelligence, the corporate intelligence firm headed by Jeremy Kroll, has taken a stake in the litigation funding firm BlueWhite

Relativity handles sensitivee-discovery cases 

In the legal battle between Novoship, a subsidiary of the

PDVSA gets investigative help in case against Glencore and co. 

An appeal lodged in the US in August by PDVSA US Litigation Trust, a financial vehicle claiming to act on

K2 investigator joins Hall at Burford 

An advisor for the past five years at the London

Burford cuts ties with Nicholas Fairfax 

After many years' loyal service, last month Nicholas Fairfax stepped

Litigation funders explore ways to secure intelligence 

A sector that is enjoying a boom in the UK and is starting to take off in France, litigation funding

Muddy Waters hits Casino with ex-CIA spy 

The aggressive short-seller Muddy Waters is piling the pressure on French supermarket chain Casino. In its latest brief dated March