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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.

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.

• WASHINGTON - Chertoff Group hires Mark Esper, Bryan Cunningham vanishes

• NEW YORK - Neelam Sharma leaves K2

• WASHINGTON - Donnelly gets Pallas Industries to change name to Castelion

• WASHINGTON/TEL AVIV - Eyal Weiss and US-based Forward Risk part company

• KYIV/NEW YORK - Naftogaz reshuffles investigators

• NEW YORK - Bryan Mabry takes over US operations at Herminius

• LONDON - Abby Stanglin leaves Nardello

• LONDON/WASHINGTON - Raedas loses two investigators

After Nardello, Kroll and Alvarez & Marsal, Guidepost tackles FTX/SBF 

Guidepost initially missed out on the major FTX investigation contracts, but it has been hired to lock down FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's computer use.

British embassy in Riyadh springboard for retired diplomats' private sector careers 

Following his predecessors' lead, former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia Simon Collis has taken on a number of business diplomacy roles since retiring.

Simone Finn reunited with Bahraini client at FMAP 

After leaving 10 Downing Street in the wake of former UK prime minister Boris Johnson's departure last year, Baroness Simone Finn is back at her consulting firm FMAP, which serves clients such as Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa.

Anthesis-Wallbrook merger relaunches ESG investigations market 

Demand for protection against reputational risk and the need to keep up with Western regulatory developments means that environmental, social and governance investigations have become a fast-growing niche for the corporate intelligence companies.

• LONDON/SHANGHAI - A possible Chinese PMC in London

• LONDON - James Stothard moves from asset recovery to investigation

• PARIS - Hervé Zany poaches hire from interior ministry

• CHAMONIX - Nick Day moves back to Geneva

• LONDON - Diligence veteran goes solo in business forensics

K2 investigates the world of beauty 

The hair and skincare company Head Kandy claims that founder Kayla McNeill fraudulently billed it for lavish personal expenses. A K2 report the beauty company submitted itemized a long list of charges the investigative firm deemed to be improper, which McNeill denied.

• NEW YORK - K2 quietly demotes co-CEO

• ABU DHABI - Consultant Charles Peterson returns to nuclear

• WASHINGTON - Ex-staffer takes Guidehouse to court

• LONDON - Audere picks special forces captain

• GENEVA - The Red Cross's Lyon connection

• LONDON - Dentons' rich pickings at Alaco

Riyadh ramps up lobbying in Washington 

Saudi Arabia's lobbyists were unusually busy in early May pushing the Saudi narrative in Yemen and Sudan to members of congress and the media.

Sparks fly between corporate intel stars Fusion GPS and Guidepost in US tech investor case 

A case brought by US tech investor Shervin Pishevar to uncover the author of a forged police report that accused him of rape has unleashed a courtroom battle between two corporate intelligence firms FusionGPS and Guidepost, Pishevar's client.

Corporate intelligence firms gear up for exodus from China 

After the difficulties experienced by Mintz, corporate intelligence firms in Beijing and Hong Kong are mulling moves to Singapore.

• LOS ANGELES - Lynx assists carpenters' brotherhood
  

• LONDON - New intelligence director at G3

• TOKYO - Cooper brings Japanese and Australian expertise to Hakluyt
  

• PARIS - EPEE joins ADIT

• WASHINGTON - Avisa investigative branch's managing director goes solo

• JERSEY CITY - New investigators for LTL round 2?

• LONDON/BERLIN - Hans-Jakob Schindler, German intelligence officer turned consultant

• LONDON/BELGRADE - Rio Tinto project in Serbia spurs activism

• OSLO - Norges Bank nearing finish line in selecting investigators

Kroll continues search for missing Morgan Stanley hard drives 

Corporate investigations group Kroll is helping Morgan Stanley to find a number of old servers and hard drives, which have resulted in online data leaks. These leaks resulted in a major class action case being brought against the banking group.