The market is full of high-priced consultants for large companies, but smaller companies require help too. Charles Griffin helps startups with clearly-written presentations, offering memoranda and website writing.

Our experience in helping companies from the inside as well as writing about them from the outside helps companies in the context of:

Copyright and trademark violations in the U.S. and abroad are common corporate irritants. We are most frequently asked to find out who is behind an offending company or website selling imitation or gray-market goods. We are also able to make buys of offending goods either personally or through a special-purpose company that we set up for the specific case.

Through a wide-spread network of international investigators and contacts, we can help in matters based in most countries of the world. In recent years we have been asked to:

In the post-Madoff world, there is little need to explain to investors or companies the value of proper due diligence. Even individuals with good reputations should be checked if they are to be in control of any amount of money or entrusted with any significant degree of responsibility.

We have been asked to check prospective board members at public companies, and prospective employees at both public and private firms. We were recently retained by a prospective employee who wanted to find out about employment conditions at a professional firm that had offered him a job.

Clients in commercial and matrimonial disputes often need to answer a simple question: how much does a person or a company own? We have also been called on to find assets in order to establish jurisdiction in a district favorable to our clients.

In searching for assets, we focus on real and personal property owned not only personally, but through side companies as well. Even if a person has lived his entire life in one state, he could easily control companies domiciled in a different state, and these could control assets anywhere in the world.

Potential litigants often want to know whether a prospective opponent has assets sufficient to support a court fight. Does an opponent tend to fight to the death or settle? We can help profile an opponent’s litigation strategy by talking to former employees, colleagues, and past litigation opponents.

During a dispute with the help of public records and interviewing we can help locate and profile witnesses to help verify or impeach credibility.

Whether we are helping an attorney with fact-based inquiries before or during litigation, a multinational company with a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act problem or a manufacturer track down the source of copyright piracy, we work the same way: with a worldwide network of investigators and other contacts who are held to the same high ethical standards we follow at all times.