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Baird’s Global Industrial Group is the firm’s longest-standing industry group, providing leading capital markets and M&A advisory services to institutional clients across the sector.

Our global team is recognized as one of the top Industrial M&A advisors among all investment banks, most recently ranked #1 for Industrial PE M&A Exits (Mergermarket, Q1 2026).

With significant resources in the United States and Europe, our dedicated sector bankers and financial sponsor coverage platform provides an extensive network of relationships among active Industrial strategic buyers and investors around the world.

Baird’s Global Industrial Group

Learn more about our coverage within the sector.

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    Aerospace

    Baird’s Aerospace team combines deep industry knowledge and broad transactional and technical expertise. We provide differential advice to public and privately held companies across the sector, within a variety of sub-verticals:

    • Airframe & Engine Manufacturing
    • Avionics
    • Components and Electronics 
    • Composite and Other Specialty Materials
    • Forging / Casting
    • Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) Services
    • Precision Manufacturing
    • Parts Distribution and Tiered Supplier Solutions

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    Building & Infrastructure

    Baird’s Building and Infrastructure team is a respected and trusted advisor for companies and private equity investors in this market. Our extensive expertise in the sector spans residential and commercial building products, infrastructure products and distribution.

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    Defense, Space & Government

    Baird’s Defense, Space & Government team is a leading advisor to federal, state & local government services, defense product, and technology companies. We have delivered exceptional outcomes for our founder-owner, private equity and corporate divestiture clients spanning sellside, buyside, and financing engagements.

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    Distribution

    Baird’s Global Distribution team has extensive experience across a variety of end markets, product categories and distribution models with a track record of delivering successful outcomes for our clients through deep sector knowledge, international reach, teamwork and a commitment to excellence.

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    Electronic Components

    Baird’s Electronic Components team is a trusted advisor to industry leading companies with deep capabilities serving diverse end markets, including Aerospace, Automotive, Consumer, Electronics, Industrial, Medical and many others, with expertise in:

    • Highly engineered assemblies
    • Composites
    • High performance plastics
    • Specialty materials
    • Metals
    • Alloys

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    Electrical Power Solutions

    Baird’s Electrical Power Solutions team combines global capital markets expertise with extensive industry knowledge to offer top-tier M&A advisory and capital-raising services across the power and utility grid and data center industries, including:

    • Hardware
    • Services
    • Software
    • Infrastructure Sub-sectors

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    Energy

    Baird’s Energy team has an established track record of providing clients with comprehensive strategic advisory and capital market services. Leveraging our comprehensive industry knowledge, valuable capital markets insights and extensive transaction experience, we provide our client’s with optimal strategies.

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    Facility, Industrial, Residential & Environmental Services (FIRE)

    Baird’s FIRE team’s deep relationships with relevant publicly traded companies, private local / regional service providers and private equity-backed businesses provide current and relevant knowledge on the markets and an ability to provide the highest level of strategic insights to its clients.

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    Flow, Motion and Power Technologies

    Baird is a leading advisor of global flow, motion and power technology companies, backed by a team of dedicated sector banking experts who continue to be the trusted advisors of leading participants in these markets. Our clients design and manufacture elite hydro-solutions and products, such as:

    • Valves
    • Pumps
    • Compressors
    • Seals
    • Electric Motors
    • Generators
    • Hydraulic Components
    • Mechanical Power Transmission Products

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    Industrial Equipment

    Baird’s Industrial Equipment team has deep expertise across numerous sub-verticals and end markets, along with both new equipment and replacement / aftermarket focused business models. Our team has a track record of delivering exceptional outcomes and consistently exceeding the expectations of our clients.

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    Machinery & Equipment

    Baird’s Machinery and Equipment team contains extensive transaction experience with all the relevant players throughout the supply chain, as well as established relationships with and access to, key industry and client decision makers.

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    Packing & Containers

    Baird’s Packaging & Containers team provides advisory and financing services. Our integrated U.S. and European team’s longstanding packaging coverage provides us with extensive experience across packaging formats, substrates, business models, end markets and geographies.

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    Safety & Security

    Baird’s Industrial Safety & Security team is a trusted advisor across the Global Industrial Safety & Security sector. Our extensive expertise in the sector spans multiple products, channels and customers in a variety of sub-verticals, including:

    • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
    • Fall Protection
    • Workplace Safety
    • Access Controls
    • Video Surveillance
    • Fire / Life Safety
    • Intrusion Detection
    • Building Automation
    • Physical Security

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    Specialty Materials & Chemicals

    Baird’s Specialty Materials & Chemicals team specializes in businesses that provide materials and chemicals across a vast spectrum of end markets and applications. The team brings broad cross-functional experience, partnering with our Consumer, Healthcare, Packaging, Distribution, Filtration and Vehicle Technology & Mobility sectors.

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    Testing, Inspection, Certification & Compliance

    Baird has a leading global investment banking franchise within the TICC sector, generated through a dedicated team focused on the sector for over a decade. Our integrated team has extensive global relationships and experience in providing advisory services to public companies, private business owners and private equity sponsors. 

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    Test, Measurement & Automation

    Baird’s TMA team brings deep knowledge of the market participants and immediate access to key executive decision makers in C-suites, members of Boards of Directors, Managing Partners of private equity firms and other influencers.

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    Thermal & Climate Technologies

    Baird’s Thermal & Climate Technologies team has substantial experience working with providers of highly engineered thermal technology solutions. Baird’s unique collaborative approach to investment banking client service combined with our standing research platform positions us well to provide high value-add service to our clients.

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    Transportation & Logistics

    Baird’s Transportation & Logistics team provides differentiated advice to public and privately held companies across a range of T&L sub-sectors, including:

    • Asset-light
    • Asset-mixed
    • Integrators / Parcel Services
    • Rail Businesses  

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    Vehicle Technology & Mobility

    Baird’s VT&M expertise spans vehicle classes and categories, capitalizing on secular mega-trends, vehicle aftermarket participants such as suppliers, retailers / distributors, vehicle OEMs and suppliers including marine, powersports and RV and service providers to broader technology and mobility companies.

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    Water & Filtration

    Baird is a highly respected voice in the Water & Filtration sector, with deep relationships, relevant coverage and significant deal velocity.

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Baird Conferences

Baird’s Global Industrial Conference is the premier event of its kind for the industrial sector. First held in 1971, the conference provides a unique opportunity to connect with senior executives from more than 280 leading public and private corporations representing mid-to-large capitalization companies.  

Find Out About Baird's 2026 Industrial Conference