BUSINESS ADVISORY & CONSULTING

Whether you are mid-sized, scaling rapidly or managing legacy operations, making sure your capital structure is fit for purpose is vital. We assist with capital planning (equity vs debt), financial restructuring for distressed or high-growth situations, liquidity forecasting, and scenario modelling for business stress-tests. This gives you a resilient foundation and the flexibility to respond to changes.

Want to raise funds? Whether you are targeting VC, PE, strategic investors or debt providers, being investor-ready makes a difference. We perform investor readiness assessments evaluating your business model, financials, governance, scalability and exit potential. We also prepare investor-facing collateral such as pitch decks, executive summaries and financial models, enabling you to engage investors professionally and confidently.

Growth via acquisition or exit via divestment is now common in the UAE/GCC business landscape. We support the full M&A lifecycle: target identification, structuring, valuation, financial & commercial due diligence, deal execution and post-integration planning. Our advice ensures you get the right deal, on the right terms.

For clients seeking to structure Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs), funds or investment vehicles in strategic jurisdictions such as Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) or Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), we provide guidance on legal, regulatory, tax, governance and operational requirements. This helps you take advantage of regional hub status and global connectivity.

For sophisticated financing needs, we offer advisory around securitisation, bond placement and leveraged financing (including Lombard financing). Whether you are looking to unlock capital tied up in assets, refinance debt or place securities on the market, we help navigate the structure, regulatory framework and investor expectations.

With the introduction of UAE corporate tax and evolving regimes, companies need to understand the implications of tax registration, effective tax rate exposures, avoidance of penalties and long-term planning. We provide corporate tax advisory: registration support, impact analysis on existing structures, optimisation of tax position, and assistance with ongoing compliance.

VAT in the UAE affects businesses of all sizes. We advise on registration thresholds, input/output VAT treatment, compliance documentation, VAT return preparation and filing, and VAT planning helping ensure you don’t face surprise liabilities or regulatory issues.

Regulations such as the Economic Substance Regulations (ESR) and anti-money-laundering (AML) obligations are stricter than ever in the region. We support companies with ESR compliance, substance requirements, documentation, audits and remediation. We also assist with AML compliance frameworks tailored to your business model, jurisdiction and risk profile.

Accurate accounting and timely reporting remain the foundation of any advisory service. We help setup accounting systems, implement financial controls, prepare management and statutory accounts, and design reporting frameworks to give you clear insight into performance, risks and opportunities.

Manual, inefficient or fragmented business processes quickly become cost and risk burdens. We map your current processes, identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies and risk exposures, and recommend new workflows and automation (including digital tools, RPA, cloud-solutions). This helps you achieve operational efficiency and scalability.

Whether you are an SME or a large enterprise, clearly documented SOPs and strong internal control systems are vital. We help you design and implement internal control frameworks, SOPs tailored to your business model, and review existing procedures for robustness and compliance. Good process governance is especially important for companies in regulated sectors or holding licensing in the UAE.

Growth brings HR challenges: hiring, payroll, benefits, compliance, performance management. We advise SMEs on structuring HR functions, selecting payroll solutions, defining roles and responsibilities, setting up HR policies, and aligning workforce strategy with growth objectives. This ensures your people-strategy supports business strategy.

Choosing the right technology or ERP system can make or break your operational scalability. We work with you to identify business requirements, evaluate ERP/technology vendors, manage selection process, oversee implementation road-map, and ensure alignment between technology and business outcomes.

As organisations grow or evolve their structure often becomes misaligned with strategy. We support organisational redesign, role definition, matrix vs hierarchical models, governance bodies, and decision-making frameworks. Whether you are scaling rapidly or facing consolidation, restructuring the organisation is key to agility.

If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it. We help define key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned with your strategic goals, develop dashboards and reporting mechanisms, and embed performance-tracking culture. This ensures timely insight, accountability and continuous improvement.

During growth or market fluctuation, strategic cost management is critical. We work with your leadership to identify cost-drivers, optimise cost base without sacrificing growth, implement zero-based budgeting or lean cost models, and monitor cost performance against benchmarks. This protects your margin and enhances resilience.

Strong leadership teams and high-performing culture again distinguish the top companies. We provide leadership development programs, team-workshops, executive coaching, talent assessment and succession planning. Building leadership capability ensures your strategy gets executed.

From establishing board charters, audit committees, governance policies, code of conduct, disclosures and regulatory compliance, we support you in building a fit-for-purpose corporate governance framework whether you are a startup, family office or publicly listed entity.

We conduct risk assessments across operational, financial, strategic, compliance, reputational and cyber-domains, and help you prioritise mitigation strategies. We build heat-maps, risk-registers, scenario planning and monitoring frameworks so you proactively manage risk.

Unforeseen events regulatory change, cyber-attack, pandemic disruption, supply-chain shock can severely impact business. We help you develop business continuity plans, crisis management protocols, scenario-response teams, and communication frameworks so you minimise downtime and preserve stakeholder confidence.

Independent reviews of your systems, controls and processes provide assurance that your business is operating as intended. We provide internal audit reviews, control assessments, compliance audits and improvement recommendations helping you meet regulatory demands and drive continuous improvement.

If you are a foreign investor looking to enter the UAE market, we act as your local advisory partner: guiding you through jurisdiction choice, licensing, regulatory compliance, tax structuring, local partner selection, shareholding models, and repatriation requirements. Our aim is to make your entry smooth and aligned with your global strategy.

Joint ventures and partnerships remain a popular route for entering or scaling in the UAE. We provide advice on JV structuring, shareholder agreements, governance, profit-sharing models, exit rights, and local partner engagement. This ensures your partnerships are robust and built for success.

Start-ups face unique challenges: lean teams, aggressive growth targets, limited resources, need for flexibility. We work with start-ups on business setup, minimum viable product (MVP) planning, funding roadmap, investor pitch preparation, mentorship, scaling strategy and exit planning. Our goal is to turn start-up ambition into scalable reality.

For international investors, cross-border structuring is often critical. We advise on repatriation strategy, transfer-pricing, holding-company structures, double tax treaties, offshore/Free Zone combinations. This ensures you optimise not just business operations, but capital flows and returns.

The UAE remains a global hub for real-estate and hospitality. We provide advisory around property development, resort and hotel launches, mixed-use projects, investment structuring, feasibility, regulatory compliance, asset management and exit planning.

With the UAE emerging as a major commodities hub (especially gold, precious metals, trade and logistics), we advise on trade-flow structuring, regulatory licensing, customs, financing, risk management, logistics optimisation, and supply-chain transparency.

The UAE and broader GCC are investing heavily in manufacturing, industrial clusters, logistics hubs and value-added exports. We help clients with industrial policy navigation, site selection, free-zone/industrial-zone structuring, operations optimisation, trade-flow strategy, and export planning.

Many UAE and GCC-based families are evolving their family-office structures, planning succession, diversifying investments and implementing governance models. We provide family office advisory: governance charter, investment policy, succession mechanics and cross-border structuring.