industry financial services founded 1996 headquarters new york city united states key people euan rellie senior managing director charles maynard senior managing director andrew huntley senior managing director 3 products investment banking number of employees 90 2015 4 website www.bdapartners.com www.bdaadvisors.com bda partners is a cross border investment banking firm headquartered in new york with offices in london and across asia . bda advises primarily on transactions involving asia . the company was founded in 1996 and was initially known as business development asia often abbreviated as bda until 2015 . bda provides advisory services for m & a mergers & acquisitions capital raising and restructuring to blue chip corporate and financial sponsor clients from north america europe and asia . bda is headquartered in new york with offices in london dubai mumbai ho chi minh city hong kong shanghai beijing singapore seoul and tokyo . bda carries out its us securities business through bda advisors inc. a broker dealer registered with the us securities and exchange commission sec and a member of finra and sipc . bda s uk subsidiary is authorised and regulated by the financial conduct authority fca . 5 6 7 bda was named investment banking firm of the year at the acg champion s awards in both 2014 and 2015 . historically bda worked mostly in old line industries such as automotive chemicals and industrials but the firm has increasingly also found success in sectors consumer and luxury retail and restaurants agribusiness healthcare technology including digital media and services . bda s clients have included financial sponsors such as bain capital cerberus citic capital partners eqt partners gtcr investcorp littlejohn platinum equity and warburg pincus . 8 bda has also worked for corporates such as dupont ecolab henkel international paper johnson controls kimberly clark pfizer tata international and terex . 9 history edit bda formerly known as business development asia was founded by euan rellie and charles maynard in 1996 . andrew huntley joined as its third partner in 1998 . all three remain active partners overseeing bda s operations . 10 11 in 2011 bda formed a partnership with william blair & company . 12 william blair and bda s alliance was designed to create a global middle market presence with a combined 230 bankers in 16 offices across nine countries . bda itself employs 85 bankers supplemented by senior advisors around the world . bda advertises itself as the leading independent pan asian m & a advisory firm . references edit http www.pr.com press release 601921 http www.bdapartners.com news bda partners the new name for business development asia llc http www.bdapartners.com about us company overview http www.bdapartners.com professionals management category http www.bdapartners.com about us company overview https www.linkedin.com company bda http www.bloomberg.com research stocks private snapshot.asp privcapid 37182363 http www.bdapartners.com clients http www.bdapartners.com clients http www.bdapartners.com about us company overview https www.facebook.com pages bda partners 163618223668329 http www.bdapartners.com news business development asia and william blair announce global strategic alliance retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bda partners & oldid 734897464 categories corporate financemergers and acquisitionsinvestment banks navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 august 2016 at 11 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view