Transaction Support and Strategic Advisory

Independent valuations using globally accepted methodologies, including discounted cash flow, comparable companies, precedent transactions and asset-based approaches, calibrated to the purpose at hand. We provide valuations for transaction negotiation, ESOP grants, share issuances, mergers, demergers, regulatory filings under UAE Corporate Tax transfer pricing rules, and internal board decisions. Our financial models are built to be used, with integrated three-statement structures, scenario and sensitivity analysis, and management-friendly dashboards.

Advisory on capital structure and fund-raise strategy across the full spectrum: private equity, venture capital, term debt, mezzanine, family office capital and management buy-outs. We work with promoters and management to articulate the funding strategy, prepare the information memorandums, teasers and investor materials that capital providers expect, and engage with the right investors and lenders. We act as the strategic and financial advisor, and coordinate with licensed arrangers or placement agents where required under SCA, DFSA or FSRA rules.

Before terms are tabled, we work through what the deal must achieve, where you can move, and where you cannot. The output is a deal-specific playbook covering value drivers, deal-breakers, the counterparty's likely positions, alternative structures tested against tax and execution risk, and the financial impact of each likely concession.

We sit with management through the negotiation, either in the room or as the analytical back-channel. This includes pre-meeting briefings, drafting counter-proposals on the spot, live modelling the financial impact of new asks, and signalling when to push and when to settle. The role is to keep the deal on the commercial spine set at the start, even when the discussion drifts into legal mechanics or counter-tactics.

The expensive mistakes happen between the term sheet and the signed SPA. We review the long-form documents, term sheets, shareholder agreements, share purchase agreements, joint venture agreements and key commercial contracts, against the negotiated commercial position. Particular attention to representations and warranties, indemnity caps and baskets, conditions precedent, earn-out mechanics, drag and tag rights, and exit waterfalls.

We project-manage the full lifecycle: virtual data room set-up and management, advisor and counsel coordination, milestone tracking, conditions precedent monitoring, closing mechanics and post-signing follow-through, so management can keep running the business while the deal runs in parallel.