Mintz Group, a leading risk advisory and investigations firm, today announced that it has acquired Greyhawk Intelligence Group, a UK-based corporate intelligence firm. Greyhawk, which operates across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, holds multiple Chambers rankings in the Litigation Support and Crisis & Risk Management categories.
“The acquisition of Greyhawk further expands Mintz Group’s presence in key emerging markets,” said Chris Weil, Mintz Group Co-CEO. “Increasingly, private equity firms, corporations, financial institutions, law firms and other organizations are asking us for detailed intelligence on counterparties and dispute adversaries that can only be gathered through in-country, on-the-ground personnel, contacts and resources. Greyhawk’s capabilities, including in frontier markets, strongly complement our own, and we are excited to have their founders join the Mintz Group leadership team.”
Greyhawk was founded in 2012 by Steven Haynes, a former investigative journalist who went on to work in premier corporate intelligence firms, and Edward Palmer, who has advised on complex disputes and transactions throughout EMEA and Asia including working on the ground in over a dozen emerging or frontier markets. He is ranked Band 1 by Chambers for Investigative Due Diligence. Haynes and Palmer each have more than 25 years of investigations and intelligence experience. Greyhawk is highly ranked by Chambers & Partners for international asset tracing and investigative due diligence.
“Greyhawk’s core strength is our ability to provide our clients the information they need to make high-stakes business decisions with confidence and to prevail in complex, cross-border disputes—and to do so from regions where records are frequently undigitized, data isn’t uniform and disclosure requirements aren’t thorough,” said Greyhawk Director and Co-Founder Haynes. “Mintz Group is cut from the same cloth and there’s a natural fit between our two organizations.” Mintz Group’s acquisition of Greyhawk follows the partnership announced earlier this year between Mintz Group and Xapien, an AI-powered search platform designed specifically to meet the challenges of multijurisdictional due diligence. The two developments reflect Mintz Group’s strategy of integrating cutting-edge technology solutions with high-touch techniques employed by professional investigators and analysts with decades of experience.
About Mintz Group
Mintz Group is an integrated risk advisory and disputes consultancy with a unified mission to keep its clients on the right side of history. For more than 30 years, Mintz Group has gathered and analyzed information for corporations, law firms, investment firms, charitable foundations, sovereign entities, and other organizations, to help them assess risks, protect reputations, and win disputes. Its approach to fact-gathering is transparent, ethical, and practical, yielding information that will stand up to the toughest scrutiny in the boardroom or the courtroom.
About Greyhawk Intelligence Group
Greyhawk is a boutique corporate intelligence firm, founded in 2012, providing specialist asset tracing, due diligence and investigative services.
For more information visit: www.greyhawk-uk.com
