Transactions · UAE
Diligence, valuation and deal support from signing to integration.
What you are buying, what it is worth, and what happens on day one — with findings written so they change the price, the terms or the plan.
7 capabilities in this practice
Discuss transactionsThe problem
Diligence that confirms rather than tests
Diligence loses its value when it is run to support a decision already taken. The useful version asks what would have to be true for this to be a good deal, then tests those things specifically — and reports clearly when they are not.
Business impact
What it costs to leave alone.
- Paying for earnings that are not repeatable
- Normalisations accepted without testing inflate the multiple applied.
- Liabilities inherited
- Tax, employment and contractual exposures that were visible in the records but never examined.
- Value lost after signing
- Integration planned after completion rather than before it, so the synergies stay theoretical.
Our approach
How we work on it.
- Test the value drivers
- Effort concentrates on the two or three things the price actually depends on.
- Findings with consequences
- Every issue is expressed as a price, a term or a condition, not as an observation.
- Day one, planned before signing
- Integration planning starts during diligence, while there is still leverage to shape it.
Capabilities
Everything in Transactions.
Each of these is a discrete piece of work. Most engagements combine several.
M&A Advisory
Financial Due Diligence
Commercial Due Diligence
Valuation
Transaction Support
Deal Advisory
Post-Merger Integration
Process
How an engagement runs.
Four stages. You know which one you are in and what closes it.
Scoping
Agree the deal thesis and the specific questions diligence has to answer.
Financial and commercial diligence
Quality of earnings, working capital, debt-like items, and whether the commercial case holds.
Valuation and negotiation support
Valuation analysis and support through price and terms discussion.
Completion and integration
Completion mechanics, then the first hundred days planned against the thesis.
Deliverables
What you receive.
- Financial due diligence report
- Quality of earnings analysis
- Valuation report
- Working capital and net debt analysis
- Post-merger integration plan
Related
Transactions, in context
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- Family BusinessesGovernance, succession and structure across generations.
Related services
- Accounting & FinanceA finance function that reports on time and holds up to scrutiny.
- Audit & AssuranceIndependent assurance that stakeholders and regulators accept.
- TaxUAE Corporate Tax, VAT and transfer pricing, handled end to end.
- Business AdvisoryDecisions on growth, cost and structure, backed by numbers.
Next step
Talk to someone who does transactions.
A short conversation establishes whether there is a real question here, who should answer it, and what it will take.
Not ready for a meeting? Ask one specific question instead.
What follows
- A person in the relevant practice reads it, not a routing queue.
- One reply that already contains a view, not a request to book a call.
- A written scope and fee basis, or a straight answer that there is no work to do.
- Sunday – Thursday, 9:00 – 18:00 GST