Ep. 35 Euan Rellie & Charlie Maynard, Co-founders & Senior Managing Directors of BDA Partners

Euan Rellie is Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of BDA, based in New York. He is also President of BDA Advisors Inc, the firm’s SEC/FINRA registered broker-dealer. Since founding BDA in 1996, he has lived in New York and London, and Singapore, and has worked in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, India and across the Middle East. 1990-1996, he worked for Schroders, the UK investment bank now part of Citigroup, in New York, London and Singapore. He was Head of SE Asia Execution for Schroders Asia-Pacific Regional Advisory Group. His clients include AgFeed, Ardian, Bain Capital, CITIC Capital, Dainippon Ink & Chemical, DuPont, Ecolab, Flex, Hanjin, Happy Socks, ICICI, Intel, Investcorp, Kraft Foods, Life Technologies, Lubrizol, Materion, Nalco, One Equity Partners, OpenGate Capital, Pfizer, Philip Morris, Platinum Equity, Sara Lee, Sigma-Aldrich, Tenneco, Terex, ThomsonReuters, Wockhardt and Yucaipa. He was named Dealmaker of the Year in 2016 and 2012 (by The M&A Advisor), 2014 North American Investment Banker of the Year, and one of the Top 50 Global M&A Dealmakers (by The Global M&A Network). He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Charlie Maynard is Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of BDA. Since founding BDA in 1996, Charlie has been based in Singapore, Tokyo, New York, Beijing, and now London. Charlie was based in Tokyo from 2002 to 2005 and established BDA’s office there and in Seoul. He has advised on a number of successful transactions throughout the region. Charlie advised Navis Capital in China’s largest control exit in 2014 by a private equity group, the sale of Trio to Weir plc. In 2015 he has advised Cosma (a Magna International subsidiary) on its acquisition of Chongqing Xingqiao and Cristal on its acquisition of Jiangxi Tikon. Prior to BDA, he worked for the Jardine Matheson Group in Hong Kong and Singapore. In 2011, he was named by M&A Advisor as one of their “40 Under 40” global M&A professionals. Charlie was educated at Oxford University (MA Hons, Geography).

BDA Partners is the global investment banking advisor for Asia. BDA is a premium provider of Asia-related advice to sophisticated clients globally, with over 20 years’ experience advising on cross-border M&A, capital raising, and financial restructuring. BDA has strategic partnerships with William Blair, a premier global investment banking business, and the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), a Japanese government owned bank with total assets of US$150bn.