The firm was founded in 1982, as MKF (Motto Kryla & Fisher LLP). With a shared passion for wine and business, the partners built MKF into the leading firm of wine business advisors - advising many of the top wine industry pioneers along the way.

MKF developed a number of related business units to serve the wine industry, including MKF Capital Advisors LLC - wine investment bank, MKF wine business advisors - the industry's leading firm of management consultants and CPA's, and MKF Research LLC - a leading wine economic and market research firm.

In 2003, MKF Capital Advisors became Global Wine Partners, the global wine investment bank through its merger with International Wine Consultants, wine merchant bank of Sydney and Paris.

As the investment bank continued to grow, MKF sold its other business units to one of the top U.S. CPA and consulting firms, Frank, Rimerman & Co., LLP, which today manages MKF as its dedicated wine business services division.

Global Wine Partners continued to expand in size and scope to become the industry's leading wine investment bank, advising and facilitating scores of transactions of all sizes.

Global Wine Partners also forged relationships with major financial institutions to bring new sources of growth capital to the wine industry.

Today, founding partners Vic Motto and Mike Fisher, together with partner Don Brain and the GWP team continue to lead Global Wine Partners to fulfill their mission of fostering the long-term viability and successful growth of the wine industry globally.