Faculty Profile: Philip Segal

Charles Griffin Intelligence was founded in 2009 by Philip Segal, a New York attorney and expert on complex international financial transactions. Based at historic Rockefeller Center in New York, Charles Griffin is dedicated to ethical fact-finding.

If lawyers, companies or individuals need hard-to-find facts relating to due diligence or litigation, they ask us. Unlike some investigative firms, Charles Griffin is staffed only by lawyers who have the same ethical restrictions on what they can do as our attorney clients.

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. In 2012, he was named by Lawline as one of the top 40 lawyers furthering legal education.  Segal has also been a guest speaker at Columbia University on investigating complex international financing structures, and taught a seminar on Asian economics as a Freeman Scholar at the University of Indiana.  He is the author of the book, The Art of Fact Investigation: Creative Thinking in the Age of Information Overload (Ignaz Press, 2016).

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, 2006
• Yale Law School, MSL, 2004
• Columbia University, BA Economic Geography, 1984