Senior-led execution for complex, cross-border transactions.
We are not brokers running an auction.We are senior advisers engineering an outcome.
We advise corporates, strategic acquirers, family offices and sponsors on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and restructuring, and run the process end to end.
- 4–6
- months, a typical sell-side engagement
- 7
- board decision gates
- 9
- steps, from screening to closing
Buying or selling? Start with your side.
Buy-sideAcquiring a business or a stakeFor corporates, strategic acquirers, sponsors and family offices.
M&A pipelines for acquirers, sponsors and family offices, then diligence, structuring and negotiation to completion.
Our own asset universe is often the source of targets and counterparties.
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Your criteria
Sectors, geographies, stage and ticket size, captured in our mandate intake.
- 2
Pipeline
Targets sourced from our asset universe and screened against your criteria.
- 3
Diligence & structuring
We run diligence and design the structure of the deal.
- 4
Negotiation to completion
We negotiate terms and take the transaction to completion.
Triangulated, not assumed
The highest achievable price is not always the theoretical peer multiple.
- Trading comparables
- Precedent transactions
- DCF / fundamental value
- Sponsor / LBO capacity
- Strategic / synergy value
Workstreams we coordinate
Parallel workstreams, one request process.
- Financial
- Tax
- Legal
- Commercial
- Technology
- Cyber
- Operational
- HR
- ESG
- Regulatory
- Insurance
- IP / compliance
Sell-sideSelling a business or a stakeFull sales, significant minorities, carve-outs and recapitalisations.
Engineering competitive tension across a curated universe of credible counterparties.
Seven board decision gates along the way; a typical engagement runs 4–6 months.
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Screening & mandate
We confirm fit, sign the engagement and prepare the business plan, financials and data room.
- 2
Positioning
Investment thesis, teaser and information memorandum, with a valuation range set by triangulation.
- 3
Marketing
A screened universe of strategic and financial buyers, approached under NDA, then first-round bids.
- 4
Execution to closing
Management meetings, diligence, binding bids, SPA negotiation, signing and closing.
Shaping the equity story
Senior advisers shape the equity story before taking it to market.
- Quality of earnings
- EBITDA adjustments
- Customer cohort analysis
- Working capital normalisation
- Standalone / carve-out costs
- Revenue normalisation
- Recurring revenue / ARR analysis
- Margin normalisation
- Growth investment adjustments
- Synergy identification
Protecting value in the SPA
Value can be won or lost during SPA negotiation, not only during marketing.
- Purchase price mechanics
- Locked box vs completion accounts
- Net debt definition
- Working capital peg
- Leakage
- Representations & warranties
- Indemnities
- Escrow
- W&I insurance
- Earn-outs
Restructuring
Turnaround, recapitalisation, debt reprofiling and stakeholder negotiation.
Roll-ups & carve-outs
Platforms built by acquisition, or non-core assets separated into financeable transactions.
Senior-led advice across complex, cross-border transactions.
Senior execution
Each mandate is led by senior bankers throughout positioning, buyer engagement, valuation, negotiation and closing.
Cross-border reach
Buyer access across the GCC, Europe, North America and selected emerging markets.
Principal mindset
Advice informed by investing, capital allocation, M&A and board-level experience, not process administration alone.
Complex transaction capability
Advisory across full sales, significant minorities, carve-outs, recapitalisations, structured consideration and sponsor-backed transactions.
The right structure is engineered before the process is launched.
- 100% sale
- Majority recapitalisation
- Significant minority
- Carve-out
- Strategic JV
- Management rollover
- Sponsor-to-sponsor
- Strategic combination
- Consortium acquisition
- Cash + equity
- Earn-out / contingent value
- Vendor financing
Share your mandate.
Buying, selling or investing: about ten minutes, strictly confidential.