MYD Capital Partners does not publish the names of clients, transactions, or individuals connected to our work. Discretion is not an omission — it is a working principle that protects your negotiating position and the people connected to your business.
Why we don't publish clients, deals, or names
A family business considering a sale, a partnership, or an outside investment is exposed the moment that intention becomes public. Employees may worry about job security before there is anything definite to tell them. Customers may start hedging their relationship with you. Suppliers may reconsider terms. Competitors may use the news against you in the market, or a negotiation, before a single term has been discussed.
Confidentiality is also leverage. A business known to be "for sale" is negotiated with less patience and less respect than one that is simply exploring its options. Keeping a process private preserves your position at the table and your standing with everyone connected to the business, regardless of how the process ends.
This is why our public materials never name clients, describe specific transactions, or attribute work to identifiable individuals. It is a deliberate choice. Employees, customers, and suppliers connected to a business we advise deserve the same protection — their livelihoods should not become part of a case study.
How we protect information in practice
Discretion has to be operational, not just stated. Over the course of an engagement, we rely on a set of concrete practices:
- Non-disclosure agreements before any sensitive detail changes hands. Financial data, customer information, and strategic plans are only shared with a counterparty after an NDA is in place.
- Staged disclosure. Early conversations with prospective buyers or partners share only what is needed to gauge genuine interest. Sensitive detail — full financials, customer lists, operational specifics — is released later, and only as a process advances.
- Project code names. Engagements are typically run under a project name rather than the company's actual name, so the identity of the business is not visible in shared documents, correspondence, or data-room materials until disclosure is appropriate.
- Controlled data-room access. When a data room is built, access is granted individually, tracked, and limited to what a specific party needs at that stage of the process — not opened broadly.
- Need-to-know teams. On both sides of a transaction, we encourage keeping the number of people aware of a potential deal as small as the work allows, for as long as possible.
- Owner-led disclosure to employees and customers. Employees and customers are informed only when, and in the way, the owner decides — never before, and never without the owner's consent. Timing this disclosure well is part of the advisory work itself, not an afterthought.
What this commitment does not claim
Discretion is a discipline we apply consistently, and we ask clients to treat sensitive information with the same care. What we commit to is a deliberate, staged approach to who sees what, and when — applied on every engagement, without exception, from the first phone call to the final signature.