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Avisa parties, Alexandre Benalla in London, Strider Technologies, T&M USA

London
Avisa's relaunch parties

London/Paris
Alexandre Benalla bounces back in London

London
David Kilby quits Herminius for Strider Technologies

New York
Ex-FBI chief Thomas Sheer advises T&M USA

United States
The Jeff Shockey Story: From Washington star to central player in congressional scandals and back again with Raytheon

A former congressional aide with ties to convicted grifter Jack Abramoff and a number of other badly tainted former members of Congress, Shockey has made a considerable comeback as Raytheon's top lobbyist. Disclosure filings show his current duties include seeking funding from the 2024 Intelligence Authorization Act.

United Kingdom
Former GPW teams remind JS Held of their valuable clientele

Investigators at British corporate intelligence firm JS Held UK, formerly with GPW, are worried about further redundancies despite their prestigious client base.

Spotlight | United States
Corporate intel firms snap up national security talents ahead of election campaign

WestExec, Pallas and Beacon Global have all taken on former CIA and Pentagon officials affiliated with both parties. The 2024 presidential candidates are sure to view industry firms as oases to find political advisers and, for the winner, the staff for the new administration.

United Kingdom
Schillings uses EU's GDPR data protection law against private investigation rivals

The reputational defence firm is using the European data protection measure to force private investigators to reveal what they know about its client`s.

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Tikehau , Nardello, Alaco, Avisa

Paris/London
French fund Tikehau invests in UK corporate intelligence with Antithesis

Los Angeles
Wendy Wu joins Nardello's expanding California office

London/New York
Former FBI agent Robert Heuchling anchors Alaco in the US

Paris
Avisa bolsters its ethics committee

Armenia, Azerbaijan
Baku hits back at former ICC prosecutor turned Karabagh consultant's genocide accusations

A tug-of-war between Armenia and Azerbaijan's legal advisers is running alongside the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

France
French defence services company's takeover manoeuvring takes political turn

ADIT's planned takeover of DCI has sparked a flurry of manoeuvring in the French parliament, as competitors look forward to the parastatal operator becoming just another company.

United States
Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard's libel prosecution may have hacking-for-hire epilogue

Fallout from the ENRC/Azima hacking-for-hire saga continues, with the revelation that Nick del Rosso, a key figure in the case, worked for recently-sued fashion mogul Peter Nygard.

Spotlight | United States
Intelligence Authorization Act's expected gravy train prompts Capitol Hill lobbying stampede

Lobbyists from the intelligence and defence industry are poised for battle ahead of the vote on the intelligence budget, which exceeds $100bn for the first time.

United States
Kroll at centre of Bulgari heiresses' bitter family feud over $129m trust

Ilaria Bulgari retained the investigative firm to prove her sister Veronica acted improperly as a trustee for their mother's estate. With a fight over a Kroll report apparently resolved, a settlement to the lengthy dispute could be at hand.

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Alaco, StoneTurn, Gravamen, FTI

London
Alaco's James Birkett and Austen Josephs join Dentons

Vienna/Frankfurt
Kristof Wabl moves up whistleblowing ladder

London
Will Jenkins goes solo after JS Held

Washington
FTI's China investigation department lags behind

Ukraine, United States
Legal battle for Odessa port assets about to become a matter of state

US fund Argentem Creek Partners is conducting an intense lobbying campaign in Kyiv to take control of Odessa port grain stevedore GNT Group, with both sides in the dispute brandishing the politically fashionable argument of fighting corruption.