Founder & Team
David Deutsch
David Deutsch is Founder and President of David N. Deutsch & Company, “The Strategic Financial Advisor of Leading Closely-Held Companies™.” Established in 1993, DNDCo is a New York-based investment banking firm providing corporate sale, acquisition, financing, and strategic advisory services to leading closely-held companies, their owners and their boards. Mr. Deutsch is also Managing Partner of The Presidents Council, a consortium of CEOs, Wall Streeters and family offices who gather quarterly and make group private equity investments. Prior to establishing his firm, Mr. Deutsch was Managing Director, Investment Banking at Congress Financial Corporation (now Wells Fargo) a leading corporate lender. Before joining Congress, he was Vice President of Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., recognized for many years by FORTUNE as America’s most admired financial services firm, where he directed a wide variety of corporate finance and merger & acquisition transactions. Mr. Deutsch began his career at Lehman Brothers.
Mr. Deutsch is the author of numerous articles related to, and a frequent speaker on, the subject of mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance. He is a contributing author of The Mergers & Acquisitions Handbook (McGraw-Hill) and The Family Business Shareholders Handbook and has been described as one of the “leading buyout professionals” by Securities Data Publishing. He has been profiled in Mergers & Acquisitions Journal, The Deal, Crain’s New York Business, Corporate Financing Week, Mergers and Corporate Policy and Buyouts, and his comments have appeared in numerous national business publications and news services including CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, Investor’s Business Daily, Corporate Finance, The Secured Lender, The Associated Press and on the Discovery Channel.
Mr. Deutsch was a founding Trustee, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, Treasurer and Vice Chairman of the Board of the Museum of American Finance in affiliation with the Smithsonian Institution, Founder of the Wall Street Council of the Consolidated Corporate Fund of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and is currently a member of the Financial Leadership Forum of the Science, Industry and Business Library (New York Public Library). He is a member of The Economic Club of New York and The Family Firm Institute. Mr. Deutsch is a member of the Board and Treasurer of the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York, former member of the Board of the New York Chapter of the Association For Corporate Growth and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Wall Street Division of UJA-Federation.
Mr. Deutsch holds a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, where he delivered the valedictory address on behalf of his class. He is an active alumnus of Middlebury, where he serves on the Middlebury College Alumni Admissions Committee, and Columbia, where he was a founding member of the Executive Advisory Board of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing and serves as a Columbia Admissions Ambassador.
David Deutsch
David Deutsch is Founder and President of David N. Deutsch & Company, “The Strategic Financial Advisor of Leading Closely-Held Companies™.” Established in 1993, DNDCo is a New York-based investment banking firm providing corporate sale, acquisition, financing, and strategic advisory services to leading closely-held companies, their owners and their boards. Mr. Deutsch is also Managing Partner of The Presidents Council, a consortium of CEOs, Wall Streeters and family offices who gather quarterly and make group private equity investments. Prior to establishing his firm, Mr. Deutsch was Managing Director, Investment Banking at Congress Financial Corporation (now Wells Fargo) a leading corporate lender. Before joining Congress, he was Vice President of Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., recognized for many years by FORTUNE as America’s most admired financial services firm, where he directed a wide variety of corporate finance and merger & acquisition transactions. Mr. Deutsch began his career at Lehman Brothers.
Mr. Deutsch is the author of numerous articles related to, and a frequent speaker on, the subject of mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance. He is a contributing author of The Mergers & Acquisitions Handbook (McGraw-Hill) and The Family Business Shareholders Handbook and has been described as one of the “leading buyout professionals” by Securities Data Publishing. He has been profiled in Mergers & Acquisitions Journal, The Deal, Crain’s New York Business, Corporate Financing Week, Mergers and Corporate Policy and Buyouts, and his comments have appeared in numerous national business publications and news services including CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, Investor’s Business Daily, Corporate Finance, The Secured Lender, The Associated Press and on the Discovery Channel.
Mr. Deutsch was a founding Trustee, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, Treasurer and Vice Chairman of the Board of the Museum of American Finance in affiliation with the Smithsonian Institution, Founder of the Wall Street Council of the Consolidated Corporate Fund of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and is currently a member of the Financial Leadership Forum of the Science, Industry and Business Library (New York Public Library). He is a member of The Economic Club of New York and The Family Firm Institute. Mr. Deutsch is a member of the Board and Treasurer of the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York, former member of the Board of the New York Chapter of the Association For Corporate Growth and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Wall Street Division of UJA-Federation.
Mr. Deutsch holds a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, where he delivered the valedictory address on behalf of his class. He is an active alumnus of Middlebury, where he serves on the Middlebury College Alumni Admissions Committee, and Columbia, where he was a founding member of the Executive Advisory Board of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing and serves as a Columbia Admissions Ambassador.
If you are interested in having David Deutsch address your business group about trends in mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, corporate finance, pre-transaction planning, etc., contact us.
New York Stock Exchange, Opening Bell
David Deutsch and the Founding Trustees of the Museum of American Finance in affil. with the Smithsonian Institution ringing the opening bell in honor of the establishment of the Museum’s first permanent home.
“I have known David N. Deutsch & Company to be a very responsive and client-driven firm. David and his team master all facets of the M&A process, which is a given in today’s competitive environment. What distinguishes David from others is his strategic and forward thinking ability in searching and finding solutions for his clients.”
Professional Team
David N. Deutsch & Company works on a limited number of assignments at a time, each managed by a two- or three-person deal team, led by David Deutsch, utilizing a coterie of principal-level professionals chosen to match the particular client matter. At other firms, senior bankers originate transactions, and then hand them off to juniors to “process.” We don’t process—we think and manage transactions to successful completion.
We’re a small, smart, hardworking team. More like a Park Avenue medical practice, with one primary doctor, than a clinic with countless physician’s assistants.
When engaged as TheBoardAdvisor™, the DNDCo team expands to include dozens of others — subject matter experts working highly collaboratively — in the realms of leadership and team building, executive compensation, operations and process improvement, marketing and sales, management information systems, family dynamics, etc.
The “extended family” and community of the firm includes members of The Presidents Council™ and regular attendees of Camp David.
We recruit professionals for brains, finance and accounting skills, communications and organizational skills, work ethic, attention to detail and teamwork. We take pride in our work.
Professional Team
David N. Deutsch & Company works on a limited number of assignments at a time, each managed by a two- or three-person deal team, led by David Deutsch, utilizing a coterie of principal-level professionals chosen to match the particular client matter. At other firms, senior bankers originate transactions, and then hand them off to juniors to “process.” We don’t process—we think and manage transactions to successful completion.
We’re a small, smart, hardworking team. More like a Park Avenue medical practice, with one primary doctor, than a clinic with countless physician’s assistants.
When engaged as TheBoardAdvisor™, the DNDCo team expands to include dozens of others — subject matter experts working highly collaboratively — in the realms of leadership and team building, executive compensation, operations and process improvement, marketing and sales, management information systems, family dynamics, etc.
The “extended family” and community of the firm includes members of The Presidents Council™ and regular attendees of Camp David.
We recruit professionals for brains, finance and accounting skills, communications and organizational skills, work ethic, attention to detail and teamwork. We take pride in our work.
Administrative Team
Suzi is David’s “right hand,” and leader of UnOffice, the team of dedicated assistants that she manages for DNDCo. Suzi manages DNDCo’s admin team, HR, technology, and logistics. And David’s travel and whereabouts. She’s a Mom of three, two in Omaha and one in Denver (along with Suzi’s granddaughter). And, get this, Suzi is a big Star Wars fan whose birthday is May 4th (as in, “May the 4th be with you!”). Reach her at suzi@dndco.com
Jessie is David’s other “right hand” (wait, two right hands?), managing DNDCo’s day-to-day admin, The Presidents Council and, now, Camp David (together with Suzi and the DNDCo admin team). Jessie is a homeschool Mom to three of the cutest boys ever. By the way, she’s from Alaska and tough as nails. Reach her at admin@dndco.com
Jessie also marshals DNDCo’s internal accounting. Reach her in that capacity at bookkeeping@dndco.com
Interns
We welcome academic interns (and have been fortunate to have had 70+ from the best Ivy League and finance schools in America) and include them on the front-line of our work. Why? Because we believe an internship culture is a learning culture. Interns expose us to some of the most current computing and communications technologies (e.g. AI) and promote a dynamic work environment. And, smart interns question what we and our clients do and how we do it. We learn from that. Perhaps as much as interns learn from us. Ultimately, benefitting us, our interns and our clients. Btw, many of our interns have gone-on to the best firms on Wall Street, enhancing our communications and collaborations with those firms as well.