A third-generation German house of strategic advisory, capital, and venture — built for the parts of the world where deals are won by judgement, language, and the long memory of a family that has been in industry since before the war.
We do three things, and we do them in concert — because the deals that matter rarely sit inside a single discipline.
Strategy, advisory, special situations, capital markets and commodities. Lender-grade feasibility, cross-border structuring, sovereign-level access, conflict resolution and restructuring. The house practice since the founder's first mandates in the late 1990s.
Project finance and ECA-backed debt structuring through Capital. Venture investment in artificial intelligence, downstream energy technology and frontier-market infrastructure through Ventures. Direct, principal positions through Investments.
We do business where Western advisory firms struggle to send a partner — and we do it in the local language, with the right introductions, and inside the law.
Refinery and downstream programmes, road infrastructure, sovereign and PPP work, commodity flows. Long-standing presence across the continent.
Brazilian downstream and asphalt heritage. Argentine, Colombian and Mexican deal access. Spanish/Portuguese working language.
U.S.-side counterparties for commodity, capital and venture flows. ECA-aware structures. Wholly compliant with OFAC and applicable export-control regimes.
Operational base in Moscow. Direct partnership with leading Russian downstream engineering teams. Decades of project structuring across the former USSR.
Persian/Dari/Arabic working capacity. Tehran, Dubai, Baku, Astana axes. Deep relationships with industrial families and sovereign entities.
Germany, Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Hungary — the family's home market and the spine of the house's European industrial network.
Every action of Jakob Schmidt & Sons is governed by a written corporate philosophy and constitution — the Schmidt – Nexus Doctrine. It begins with a personal letter from the founder, runs through eighteen articles, the Stakeholder Compact, the Doctrine of Influence, the Engineering Disciplines, the Project Lifecycle, the Country Compact, and closes with the Bani Adam of Sa'di. It is the most demanding internal standard the house holds.
The house operates alongside two related vehicles that share the founder's stewardship.
The house's philanthropic arm. Women's rights & protection, anti-trafficking, microfinance, arts and music, mentorship, humanitarian fundraising. Operated with the same discipline as the commercial mandates.
A private hospitality and lifestyle ecosystem founded by HH Leyla Issa Abuzaid. Dr. Bernd R. Schmidt serves as Global Ambassador in a personal capacity. Influence without exposure. Felt, never advertised.
In a world of specialists, the polymath who connects the dots wins.— Dr. Bernd R. Schmidt, Founder