Who We Are

BDT & MSD Partners

BDT & MSD Partners is a merchant bank with an advisory and investment platform built to serve the distinct needs of business owners and strategic, long-term investors. We are distinguished by our decades of experience advising at the intersection of founders, families, and businesses, as well as by our differentiated capital base and culture of aligned investing. Since 2010, our affiliated funds have deployed more than $50 billion across our investment strategies.

Our story

History of the Firm

BDT & MSD Partners was established in 2023 through the combination of BDT & Company, the merchant bank to the closely held, founded in 2009 by Byron Trott, and MSD Partners, a premier investment firm that since 2009 has invested on behalf of Dell Technologies Founder Michael Dell, his family, and other like-minded investors.

What We Do

A Long-Term Partner to Business Owners and Strategic Investors

Trusted Advice and Capital

We offer strategic advisory services and long-term capital through our affiliated funds to help clients sustain and grow their businesses, manage their legacies, and create social impact.

Our advisory capabilities focus on the complex issues facing business owners, providing tailored solutions and working across family branches and generations to meet our clients’ objectives.

M&A and Capital Structure
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Ownership and Governance
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Trust and Estate
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Family Office
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Philanthropy and Social Impact

As a long-term investment partner with aligned interests, our affiliated funds provide differentiated capital for owners seeking growth, acquisitions, liquidity, or going-private transactions.

Differentiated
Investment Platform

Through our registered investment advisors, BDT Capital Partners and MSD Partners, we seek to provide high-quality investment strategies in four core areas with the goal of delivering attractive, long-term, risk-adjusted capital appreciation.

BDT Capital Partners provides long-term, differentiated capital through our affiliated funds to business owners, with a focus on family- and founder-led businesses with strong, durable fundamentals.

MSD Partners’ credit strategy provides creative financing solutions to a broad range of businesses across market sectors and geographies. As a flexible partner, we draw on our differentiated sourcing network, deep market expertise and extensive structuring skills.

MSD Partners’ real estate equity strategy focuses on complex, large-scale, high-quality assets in high barrier-to-entry locations. We are a preferred partner with a long-duration mindset and significant operational and execution capabilities.

Through BDT Capital Partners and MSD Partners, we invest in private high-growth companies with proven business models and large market opportunities. Our approach is defined by our ability to be a flexible, long-term, value-added partner.

Unparalleled Global Network

We bring together our world-class network of business-owning clients and investors to enable them to benefit from the wisdom and experience of other exceptional leaders.