Acuris buys Asian investigations firm Blackpeak
Blackpeak, an Asia-based investigative research firm that counts a number of PE players among its clients, has been acquired by Acuris, the parent company of AVCJ.
Chris Leahy, the former head of Asia for Kroll, founded Blackpeak in 2011 with Jack Clode, head of Kroll’s Hong Kong office, and Nicholas Bryan-Brown, former co-head of investment banking for Asia Pacific...
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