Peter Mandelson

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
K2, GardaWorld, General Counsel

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

LondonK2 Integrity shrinks headcount

ParisFormer DGSE officer retires from GardaWorld

LondonGlobal Counsel lobbying staff snapped up by rivals

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Inside Orbis, part 2: former MI6 employee's intelligence firm also probed Lords' Russia links

Investigating links with Russia's political and security apparatus is an integral part of Orbis's activities. But in addition to the now famous ‘Steele dossier' against Donald Trump, the firm also investigated big names close to ‘Londongrad' in the British parliament's upper house.

Spotlight | Europe
Trial exposes Crédit Suisse's Eastern Europe private investigators

While the bank won the legal battle launched by its former European markets director, the trial has brought to light the troop of investigators and consultants both sides used to shake off their troubles in Romania over the past 15 years.

United Kingdom
Huxter, former Hakluyt pillar, goes solo

Rupert Huxter, who was number two at the corporate intelligence [...]

United Kingdom
Barker finds EN+ an ally in Westminster

In his dogged efforts to save the Russian energy group [...]

United Kingdom
Under Theresa May, Londongrad's oligarchs face testing times

US's increasingly tough stance towards Russia has quickly spread to London, provoking panic among the city's population of oligarchs, despite the good offices of the army of consultants who work for them.

United Kingdom
Lazard teams with influential Lord Prior

David Prior has been appointed to the advisory board of [...]

United Kingdom, United States
OFAC challenges British government's contradictory stance

In a move that will surely have an impact on a number of figures in British politics and business, on [...]

Spotlight | United Kingdom
‘Oligarch list' causes City headaches

The US Treasury Department's list of figures close to Putin has brought to light the many links between Britain's financial establishment and named oligarchs. The affair looks set to further destabilise the City of London, which is already grappling with Brexit.

Israel, United States
Active retirement for former Unit 8200 chief Nadav Zafrir

The former head of the Tsahal's SIGINT unit has joined the board of the US company BlueteamGlobal and is also investing in the cyber-security sector.

United Kingdom
Simon Fraser joins private sector

Simon Fraser, who stood down as the permanent under-secretary of [...]

France, United Kingdom
Emmanuel Macron

Emmanuel Macron, the French economy minister who used to work [...]

Insiders | Asia, Europe
Dick Evans, the Kazakhstan connections of an arms industry high-flier

After having served as the high profile chairman and chief executive of BAE Systems from 1998 to 2004, Richard "Dick" Evans has been putting his talents to use in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan. President Nursultan Nazarbayev recruited him in October 2006 to run the country's sovereign fund, Samruk.