About Us

Insightful, Resourceful, and Always Ethical.

Charles Griffin Intelligence was founded in 2009 by Philip Segal, a New York attorney and expert on complex domestic and international business and finance.

Based in the heart of New York City and working worldwide, Charles Griffin is dedicated to ethical fact-finding.

Why We Are Different

Ethics. Some firms will ignore the law and legal ethics, and obtain private records from banks, phone companies and hospitals. We will never break the law or violate the lawyer’s code of professional responsibility.

We understand both finance and law. Some firms may be staffed with ex-law enforcement but will have trouble sorting through masses of legal filings. Others are better with the law but are weak when confronted with volumes of securities transactions or financial records. We know how to read both the law and financial records and to make sense of mountains of such information in ways that serve our clients. We read documents and distill them for you, and out of this sea of facts we find information you need as well as useful people to interview.

Cost-efficiency. Our boutique size saves our clients’ money, and we are transparent about what things cost. We usually work to a fixed price to eliminate client surprises at billing time.

Managing Member: Philip Segal

Charles Griffin is headed by Philip Segal, a New York attorney with extensive experience in corporate investigations in the U.S. for AmLaw 100 law firms and Fortune 100 companies.

Segal worked previously as a case manager for the James Mintz Group in New York and as North American Partner and General Counsel for GPW, a British business intelligence firm.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Segal was the Finance Editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal, and worked as a journalist in five countries over 19 years with a specialization in finance. Segal has also been a guest speaker at Columbia University on investigating complex international financing structures. He is the author of the book, The Art of Fact Investigation: Creative Thinking in the Age of Information Overload (Ignaz Press, 2016).

He lectures on fact investigation and ethics to bar associations and other professional groups across the United States.

Professional Associations

  • American Bar Association (Sections on Litigation and Family Law)
  • Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club (Life Member and Past President)

Education

  • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, JD
  • Yale Law School, MSL
  • Columbia University, BA Economic Geography