Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore
Private sleuths hover between Tokyo and Singapore for APAC regional base

Singapore
Talent wars: FTI and Secretariat poach intelligence bigwigs for Singapore practices

Corporate intelligence providers FTI Consulting and Secretariat Advisors are on the hunt for detectives with operational experience in Southeast Asia, a search that has led both to approach a pool of ex-Control Risks Group talents.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Gunvor Group, Alaco, Exiger, Control Risks

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

LondonFormer Schillings investigator joins Gunvor

WashingtonExiger beefs up government contracts department

London/ZurichAlaco's Swiss branch shrinks

WashingtonAlyssa Misner leaves Control Risks

Hong Kong
Western corporate intelligence persists in believing in Hong Kong market

Despite the new national security law voted on 19 March, some financial investigation firms are hoping to continue working in the former British enclave, even after multiple setbacks.

Japan, United Kingdom, United States
The corporate intelligence heavyweights who are leaving JS Held

The firm's global investigations division continues to be restructured, with departures recently from its offices in London, New York and Tokyo.

China
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.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
MPP protects LVMH again, 5 Stones minus Harrington, Nardello in Singapore

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to Paris, Miami and New York.

Paris MPP returns to protect LVMH

Miami Harrington flies solo again after 5 Stones

New York Nardello returns to Asia

Japan, United States
Japanese investigation market shakeup

US and British intelligence groups are on the lookout for local private investigators in a once tightly closed Japanese market that has been positioning itself as a vector of growth.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Protection Group International, The Risk Advisory Group

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to London and Singapore.

London PGI loses its cyber chief.

Singapore, London The Risk Advisory Group poaches Steven Westerveldt from Control Risks Group to run its new Singapore bureau.

Hong Kong
S-RM enters turbulent investigation market

According to our sources, after looking for a position with a big corporation, Morgan Stark, the former head of investigation [...]

Hong Kong
Honk Kong: competition grows in HK private investigation market

Demand for corporate intelligence services is growing in Hong Kong, but the marketplace, to date dominated by British firms, is also becoming increasingly competitive as new companies seek some of the action.

United States
Nardello & Co

Nardello & Co, the company created by former Assistant US [...]