Dell-backed investment group merges with Buffett advisory firm
MSD Partners, a company set up by Michael Dell, is merging with Byron Trott’s BDT merchant bank, creating an advisory and investment group that counts some of the world’s highest profile billionaires and entrepreneurs as clients.
The new group aims to capitalise on the wave of new fortunes forged as entrepreneurs founded companies during the two-decade-long tech boom while also advising the heirs of older family businesses. The two companies will together manage about $50bn.
Trott, a former Goldman Sachs partner known on Wall Street as the billionaires’ banker, is a close adviser and co-investor of Warren Buffett, the Pritzker family behind the Hyatt hotel empire and the descendants of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Antoine Gara
