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BELGIUM 28/07/2005 Diligence Targets EU Market The U.S. firm Diligence has opened an office in Brussels in a move that underscores the growing interest of investigative concerns in EU affairs. [...]
UNITED STATES 14/07/2005 Arthur Levitt The former chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), [...]
UNITED STATESEUROPE 17/06/2005 Apax Partners a Geostrategic Fund? Free A confidential report by the Delegation aux Affaires Strategiques (DAS), a French defense ministry think-tank, has shed light on a number of strategic investments made by Apax Partners, a heavy-weight among U.S. equity funds. [...]
UNITED STATES 02/06/2005 Google Hires Former Iraq Man Dan Senor, who was spokesman for the U.S. administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, until last June, has just been recruited [...]
UNITED STATESEUROPE 29/04/2005 Exostar a World Standard for Defense Industry? Free Founded by five big defense and aeronautics groups, the U.S. Exostar company launched an ultra-secure cooperation platform in 2001 for constructors, suppliers and customers. Exostar now wants to become the world standard. [...]
UNITED STATES 14/04/2005 Diligence Raises $15 Million The U.S. investigative firm Diligence has made major boardroom changes and brought an equity fund, Exxel Partners, into its business. [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 31/03/2005 QinetiQ to Sell BAE Systems Gear The British defense group BAE Systems awarded a contract to QintiQ, the former U.K. military research agency, to scout for [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 03/03/2005 MoD Sells Off Another Agency After selling the military research agency Qinetiq – it is [...]
FRANCE 03/03/2005 Twists in Otor-Carlyle Saga The Otor-Carlyle affair has taken fresh turns that extend far beyond a simple dispute between the bosses of a small French company and a powerful U.S. equity fund. [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 17/02/2005 QINETIQ FISHES IN CIA POND Peter Marino, who once worked on behalf of the CIA [...]
UNITED STATESFRANCE 06/01/2005 Carlyle-Otor: Score 1-1 Paradoxically, in the battle pitting the U.S. equity fund Carlyle against France's Otor, the French packaging company won the first round in the U.S. in December and Carlyle the second in Paris. [...]
UNITED STATES 16/12/2004 Patton Boggs and Iraq's Debt to Bulgaria The lobbying concern Patton Boggs has just signed a contract [...]
FRANCE 16/12/2004 DGM Conseil in Fighting Mood The communications strategy of big French corporations is becoming increasingly aggressive. [...]
UNITED STATES 16/12/2004 Carlyle Sets the Example Veritas Capital, an equity fund that has just bought the private military firm Dyncorp., invests exclusively in the defense sector and employs several generals. In doing so, it has torn a page out of Carlyle's book. [...]
FRANCE 04/11/2004 Arbitration and Conflicts of Interest The increasing use of private arbitration panels to settle corporate disputes is by no means a cure-all because the arbiters themselves can be accused of conflicts of interest. [...]
KUWAIT 21/10/2004 Trafficking in Debt The International Strategy Group consortium which has been trying for [...]
EUROPE 07/10/2004 Pier F. Guarguaglini Enjoying full powers as boss of the Italian aeronautics and [...]
UNITED STATESFRANCE 10/09/2004 Carlyle and Credit Lyonnais, a Profitable Friendship Free A close look at information contained in financial data banks (Thomson One Banker, Zephyr and the like) reveals the frequency and high level of ties between The Carlyle Group and France's Credit Lyonnais bank. [...]
Spotlight UNITED STATESFRANCE 09/09/2004 The Small Company that Defies Carlyle Over the past three years, intelligence agencies, investigative firms and legal experts have all been caught up in a business struggle complete with dirty tricks, destabilization tactics, legal action and denunciations. The protagonists are the managers of a small French [...]