The spies for hire who pick the bones of corporate scandals

Nardello & Co is trying to track down what remains of FTX’s worldwide assets after the arrest of its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

The office is a bland building near Chancery Lane. Neither its position, tucked away on a quiet backroad in the City, nor its facade, an iron grey home for grey suits, seems accidental.

Founded in the US in 2003 and incorporated in the UK four years later, Nardello & Co is part of a lesser-known branch of London’s financial and legal ecosystem: corporate spies for hire.