On 15 May 2017 it was announced that Moody's entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Bureau van Dijk, which completed in August 2017.

[5] The majority of staff focus on sales, marketing and customer support in offices in: Amsterdam, Beijing, Bratislava, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Manchester, Mexico City, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Vienna, Washington D.C. and Zurich.

Bureau van Dijk's research team collects both global M&A data and intelligence around corporate ownership structures, and is based in Manchester, Brussels and Singapore.

[6] Bureau van Dijk claims to offer the most powerful comparable resource of information on private companies in the world.

The company regularly blogs content and white papers, offering free resources on compliance and other risk areas.

The owners of Bureau van Dijk were private individuals who were also members of the management and board, and the company has since been sold.

[9] In July 2014, EQT AB purchased Bureau van Dijk from Charterhouse backed by an 845 million-euro equivalent leveraged loan financing.

[10] In early 2015, Swedish pension fund Sjätte AP-fonden (AP6) bought a 3% stake in Bureau van Dijk, through a direct co-investment.

[15] Bureau van Dijk also work with the Economist Intelligence Unit to publish EIU DataServices – a range of economic products combined with advanced software.

[buzzword][17] PUBlizard is a white-label cloud distribution platform for eBooks and documents enabling to build digital libraries.

[15] (EDIT: outdated information; PUBlizard is not anymore a product of BVD) Zephus is Bureau van Dijk's M&A research subsidiary and is based in Manchester.