The Mintz Group works in dozens of countries to check the backgrounds and reputations of individuals and companies. We routinely meet the requirement of our international clients to seamlessly follow investigative leads across borders. Our multilingual, diverse staff has built up substantial expertise in how to uncover hidden business information around the world.

Typical Assignments
Following are some examples of our cross-border due-diligence investigations:

• We routinely check out politically connected agents in places like Nigeria and Pakistan, where our clients are concerned about corrupt practices.
• We trace individuals to their side companies in places like Switzerland.
• We have the expertise and contacts to look for past trouble an individual or company may have had with regulators, even in places like China and Brazil, where trouble doesn't leave much of a paper trail.

International Staff
Our investigators have decades of experience gathering facts around the world.

For example, Jerry Gruner (who works in our Washington, D.C. office) served in the Central Intelligence Agency for 33 years and rose to Chief of Station in four key countries in Latin America, Western Europe and Eastern Europe.

We draw our staff from a wide variety of investigative traditions. The head of our office in London, England William Brittain Catlin for example began his career in broadcasting with the BBC and later moved into corporate investigations and intelligence gathering.

In-House Languages
The following languages are spoken by our in-house investigators in our offices in the U.S. and Europe.

Fluent: Spanish, French, Italian, German, Modern Greek, Swedish, Norwegian, Mandarin Chinese, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Haitian Creole

Basic: Russian, Danish, Portuguese, Czech, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Burmese, Hindi, Tamil, Japanese

In addition to these languages, our network of investigators throughout the world allows us to conduct investigations in virtually any tongue.