Before Relationships The Mintz Group checks the backgrounds and reputations of individuals and companies prior to relationships such as a merger, financing or high-level hire. Our research helps our clients know in depth, often in less than three days, who they are about to do business with.

What We Do

We have conducted due-diligence investigations on thousands of business executives in recent years. Our clients often want answers to the following questions:

• Has this person ever been in criminal or regulatory trouble?
• Has he been truthful about his background?
• Was she successful and trustworthy at prior jobs?
• Does he have relationships with questionable people?

We offer standard levels of due-diligence research with respect to an individual, at standard price points.

We are recognized experts in cross-border due-diligence checking. For example, Jim Mintz authored the chapter “Due Diligence Investigative Technology and Know-How”, for the reference book Due Diligence for Global Deal Making (published in 2002 by Bloomberg Press; available from the Mintz Group on request).

We are accustomed to working on the tight schedules imposed by deal deadlines and other client requirements.

Many of our clients check Nexis, Google and other resources themselves and then ask the Mintz Group to dig deeper. This saves our clients money and assigns us only the investigative steps by which we add significant value.

Our “19 Things Business Executives Don't Want You to Know” lists what we most commonly uncover about people in the course of our investigations.

How We Connect the Dots

We are experts in gathering facts in ways that don't leave footprints and don't make waves.

We quietly follow the paper trails that business people leave behind, and when we uncover allegations about someone's character or reputation, we know how to follow up discreetly and carefully. We train our investigators in how to be “forgettable,” to elicit information from people who scarcely realize or remember they have been interviewed.

When the subjects of our research have been enmeshed in government or regulatory enforcement actions, we have former regulatory and law-enforcement agents who help us understand the significance of those actions.

Our written reports clearly state the sources of our information, and we include copies of the actual documents in which the facts appear.

We work with our clients to tailor our research to their particular needs. For example, we prepare reports for employers concerned about why prospective hires left their previous jobs; for companies worried that their vendors may have a habit of paying kickbacks; for bankers who need to know whether their customers' money is clean.