What M&A advisers and post-merger-integration (PMI) consultants do
The services M&A advisers and post-merger-integration consultants provide, end to end.
M&A advisers run the transaction — strategy, valuation, the sell-side or buy-side process, diligence, structuring, negotiation and acquisition financing. Post-merger-integration (PMI) consultants take over after close — 100-day planning, synergy capture, operating-model and systems integration, and talent retention. Matchpoint provides both ends.
What M&A advisers do
M&A advisers guide and execute a merger, acquisition or divestment end to end: valuation, preparing the information memorandum, buyer or target identification, running a competitive process, coordinating diligence, structuring the deal and negotiating to close. They also arrange the acquisition financing — senior, mezzanine or unitranche debt with sponsor or management equity.
What post-merger-integration (PMI) consultants do
- 100-day and full integration planning
- Synergy identification, capture and tracking
- Operating-model, systems and process integration
- Organisation design and talent retention
- Risk, culture and change management
See post-merger integration and synergies.
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Why running M&A and PMI together matters
When the same team quantifies synergies at deal stage and delivers them after close, decision ownership can remain continuous. Acquisition research documents elevated senior-management turnover in defined samples; the rate and value consequence depend on the cohort, period and transaction. In the GCC, integration planning should also map founder dependency and person-specific employer and work-authorisation routes. See the evidence-led PMI retention framework.
How this works in the GCC
UAE and GCC M&A also requires local analysis of trade-licence and work-authorisation obligations, end-of-service liabilities, ownership structures, country-specific merger control and sector approvals. Matchpoint provides senior-led, origination-to-close advisory and PMI in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and across the region. See M&A Advisory.
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Frequently asked questions
Strategy and target or buyer screening, valuation, running the sell-side or buy-side process, due-diligence coordination, deal structuring and negotiation, and arranging the acquisition financing.
100-day and full integration planning; synergy identification, capture and tracking; operating-model, systems and process integration; organisation and talent-retention design; and risk, culture and change management.
Yes — Matchpoint is based in the UAE, with partners in Dubai and Abu Dhabi running sell-side, buy-side and merger mandates with cross-border reach into KSA, India, the UK and the US.
Last updated: August 2026.
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