Inside, two private investigators, pretending to be recruiters, were “interviewing” an employee of West Face Capital, a Toronto private-equity firm, over dinner, but allegedly trying to elicit confidential information about West Face. They were there spying on the spies, and as the alleged Black Cube agents and the West Face employee left the restaurant, the K2 agents snapped pictures of the two men and the female West Face employee. West Face had about an hour to find its own spies and have them scramble to the restaurant. West Face has strenuously denied those allegations, and their filings are hardly the usual dry material of such litigation. Black Cube purportedly made its approach through his artist and art-therapist wife, pretending to represent a global charity working with autistic children.

Source: National Post November 30, 2017 01:07 UTC