Mintz Group Expands Reach with Acquisition of Chambers-ranked UK Corporate Intelligence Firm

NEW YORK –– 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 is highly ranked by Chambers & Partners for international asset tracing and investigative due diligence. 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’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.