Does the management team of a company you are considering acquiring really have the reputation and experience its press releases say it does? Does that new customer eager to do business represent a great opportunity – or are you being led into a snare of unsavory entanglements?
Pinpoint is an expert in a wide range of intelligence gathering and due diligence operations, from assisting on mergers and acquisitions to investigating potential suppliers and customers. We draw upon our numerous databases and our former law-enforcement contacts from around the world to give our clients all the information they will need to make an educated decision. And because we are an expert in navigating the various privacy regulations and practices at work in jurisdictions across the globe, your investigation will be fully compliant and will withstand legal challenge.
Our Services Include:
- Reputation Audits
- Background Interviews
- Record Authentication
Pinpoint Investigations & Security Corp. provides these services throughout Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx.
Who Uses This Service
- In-house and outside counsel, law firms, boards, special committees, owners, and executives who need independent facts before a legal or business decision.
- Private-equity firms, investors, lenders, family offices, acquirers, and transaction teams evaluating a company, principal, borrower, investment, or acquisition target.
- Compliance, procurement, internal-audit, risk-management, corporate-security, and insurance professionals reviewing vendors, distributors, partners, or other third parties.
- Businesses vetting prospective executives, key hires, owners, counterparties, licensees, franchisees, suppliers, or joint-venture partners.
When to Contact Pinpoint
Clients usually call before committing money, authority, reputation, or access—or after a disclosure raises questions. Common triggers include:
- A proposed acquisition, investment, loan, joint venture, distribution agreement, major vendor engagement, executive appointment, or other high-value relationship.
- Inconsistent resumes, ownership statements, financial representations, references, addresses, business histories, or transaction disclosures.
- Opaque ownership, shell or related entities, undisclosed conflicts, nominee relationships, or questions about who actually controls or benefits from a business.
- Litigation, bankruptcy, liens or judgments, licensing or disciplinary issues, sanctions exposure, regulatory concerns, adverse media, fraud, corruption, or integrity allegations.
- A foreign or multi-jurisdictional subject, unexplained associations, possible financial distress, or a deadline requiring verified facts before the client proceeds.
What to Expect
Initial intake: we define the contemplated decision, priority risks, subjects and entities, jurisdictions, deadline, confidentiality, counsel involvement, and the client’s known concerns.
Information requested may include legal names, aliases, dates of birth when lawful and available, companies, ownership charts, addresses, websites, resumes, references, disclosures, offering or deal documents, and known issues. Sensitive material is transferred securely.
Agreed lawful scope: identity and corporate verification; ownership, officer and relationship mapping; court, bankruptcy, UCC, lien, judgment, sanctions, licensing and disciplinary research; adverse-media and public-source review; and employment, education, reference, interview, or field verification when appropriate.
Verification: possible matches are checked against identifiers and original or authoritative sources. We distinguish similar names, allegations, case outcomes, current facts, historical facts, and unresolved leads.
Deliverable: a confidential report with verified findings, material discrepancies, relationship analysis, red flags, source documents or citations, limitations, and focused follow-up options. The client and counsel make the ultimate decision.
Timing and Availability
A matter may begin the same day or next business day when scope, written authorization, required identifiers and documents, personnel, and the retainer are ready. No start time is guaranteed until the assignment is accepted.
A focused domestic due-diligence review commonly takes about three to seven business days.
Multiple people or entities, common names, complex ownership, manual court or agency records, interviews, fieldwork, financial analysis, or foreign jurisdictions can require several weeks and may be handled in phases.
Timing also depends on court and agency access, employer or school verification, reference cooperation, record quality, translation, travel, specialist availability, and legal process through counsel.
Material findings can be reported promptly; a final report follows source verification and review of the assigned records and exhibits.
Why Pinpoint
Experienced supervision: work is supervised by Igor Galitsky, a retired NYPD Sergeant/Supervisor Detective with 23 years of law-enforcement and investigative experience, including financial-crime and money-laundering investigations.
Licensed regional capability: Licensed Private Detective, in New Jersey and New York, with practical New York/New Jersey court, corporate-record, interview, surveillance, and field-investigation experience.
Human-led, source-level verification: we do not simply forward a database dump. Names, identifiers, ownership links, addresses, cases, credentials, and online claims are checked against reliable sources.
Relationship and control analysis: corporate histories, shared identifiers, transactions, litigation, associates, and public records are organized into a clear chronology and ownership or relationship picture.
Purpose-driven scope: the work is proportionate to the decision, jurisdiction, risk, deadline, and lawful access available—not a generic checklist.
Clear, confidential reporting: verified facts, allegations, assessments, discrepancies, unresolved leads, and limitations are separated so counsel and decision-makers can evaluate risk without overstatement.
Important Limits
- There is no single complete, real-time database and no investigation can provide a universal “clean bill of health.” Records may be delayed, incomplete, sealed, restricted, expunged, misindexed, private, or unavailable in some jurisdictions.
- A similar name, shared address, allegation, arrest, lawsuit, adverse article, or database entry is not proof of identity, wrongdoing, liability, or a current risk. Context, status, disposition, and corroboration matter.
- We do not hack accounts, bypass access controls, unlawfully obtain bank/phone/email records, use stolen credentials, trespass, impersonate authorities, or access sealed or restricted information without legal authority.
- Due diligence is not an audit, valuation, credit decision, legal opinion, guarantee of future conduct, or substitute for counsel, accountants, compliance specialists, or required regulated screening.
- Hidden, foreign, informal, or privately held arrangements may remain unknown despite reasonable work. The report explains the assigned scope and limitations.
- Investigators report facts and assessments. The client, counsel, board, lender, investor, HR, or compliance team determines whether and on what terms to proceed.
A De-identified Example
De-identified matter: Counsel and an investor were evaluating several principals and related companies before a proposed transaction. Disclosures and public filings raised questions about ownership, prior business relationships, litigation, and financial pressure.
What we did: We verified identifiers; reviewed corporate registrations and ownership/address histories, UCC and bankruptcy records, court matters, licenses, sanctions, adverse media, and other lawful public sources; mapped relationships; and used targeted source or field follow-up to test the most important unresolved points.
General result: The report separated confirmed connections, material discrepancies, older matters and their status, unresolved leads, and record limitations. The client and counsel used the findings to refine follow-up questions, document requests, protections, and deal terms without treating the investigation as a go/no-go decision or guarantee.
Service area and contact
Pinpoint Investigations & Security Corp. serves Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. Call 718-667-6422 to discuss your needs.
Related services: Background Checks; Corporate Investigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What information do you need to start?
Usually the business objective, subject and entity names, known identifiers, relevant dates and jurisdictions, ownership or deal documents, resumes or disclosures, known concerns, deadline, and authorized client or counsel contacts. We identify the minimum necessary information during intake and arrange secure transfer.
What can a due-diligence investigation include?
Depending on the purpose and lawful scope: identity, corporate ownership and officers, litigation, bankruptcy, UCC and lien records, judgments, sanctions, licenses and discipline, adverse media, public online information, employment or education claims, references, interviews, site work, and relationship analysis.
Do we need the subject’s consent?
It depends on the purpose, information requested, jurisdiction, and whether employment, tenant, credit, consumer-reporting, or another regulated process applies. The client should confirm the lawful basis with counsel, HR, or compliance and obtain authorization when required.
Can you find hidden owners or assets?
We can identify public and lawfully available ownership, corporate, property, litigation, UCC, address, transaction, and relationship indicators and pursue agreed leads. We cannot guarantee discovery of every asset, beneficial owner, foreign interest, nominee, trust, or private arrangement.
Will the report tell us whether to proceed?
No. We provide verified facts, discrepancies, risk indicators, context, sources, and limitations. The client and its legal, financial, compliance, or governance advisers decide whether to proceed and what protections are appropriate.
How long will it take and what will it cost?
A focused domestic review commonly takes about three to seven business days; complex ownership, multiple jurisdictions, interviews, fieldwork, foreign records, or specialist review may take weeks. We work on a retainer basis, and cost depends on scope, urgency, jurisdictions, records, field hours, travel, specialists, and reporting.
