EQUITY ADVISORY

  We advise business owners on raising equity capital, from growth funding to a partial sale or the introduction of a strategic partner, helping you prepare the business, identify the right investors and settle terms that fit your long-term goals. We work with family offices and institutional investors in the Gulf, the UK and Europe, and we advise you at every stage of your discussions with them. 

• Capital raising: advising on the structure and timing of growth equity and expansion capital rounds
• Investor identification: identifying the family offices, strategic partners and institutional investors best suited to your business, and advising on how to present it to them
• Valuation and positioning: shaping the equity story and the valuation case ahead of investor discussions
• Deal structuring: advising on terms, instrument (ordinary or preferred equity, convertibles, shareholder loans) and shareholder rights
• Negotiation support: advising the company through term sheet and investment agreement negotiations
• Due diligence support: preparing the information and supporting the company through the investor’s diligence
• Secondary transactions: advising on share sales by existing shareholders, including founder liquidity
• Shareholder and governance advisory: cap table, board composition and shareholder agreements after investment