Global Wine Partners
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Experience Counts
About Global Wine Partners
Global Wine Partners is a leading provider of financial advisory services to the wine industry. We’ve been in this business for over 35 years. Our team has a level of expertise and a network of connections — plus a commitment to confidentiality — that sets us apart. Global Wine Partners 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, MKF Wine Business Advisors – the industry’s leading firm of management consultants and CPA’s, and MKF Research – an innovative wine economic and market research firm. In 2003, MKF Capital Advisors became Global Wine Partners.
Today, Global Wine Partners continues to fulfill its mission of fostering the long-term viability and successful growth of the wine industry globally.
The Global Wine Partners Team
There’s little we haven’t seen or dealt with in over 35 years of growing up with the wine industry. We’ve partnered with hundreds of wine business owners and executives through all phases and business cycles: from inception, to launch, to market creation, to growing pains and all stages beyond. We speak their language and understand the motivations. We know what it has taken to pursue their vision, ideas and dreams. We bring that experience, creativity, perspective, and knowledge to wine business transactions that are anything but predictable.
Our late co-founder Vic Motto
Who we work with
Helping wine Businesses of
all shapes and sizes
Our goal is to help our clients through transaction processes in the most efficient & profitable way possible
GWP specializes in advising sellers of wine businesses. This includes entrepreneurs and owners of privately-held companies as well as divestitures of wine brands and wineries by large private and public companies.
In other cases, GWP assists family wine businesses in resolving succession issues by providing liquidity and estate diversification through strategic alliances with other family businesses, or by complete divestiture of the business.
Confidential advice
We take privacy seriously
Our firm values the confidentiality of our clients. Name-dropping and tombstones, while perhaps good for marketing purposes, aren’t part of our practice.