Single and multi-family offices with appetite for direct equity and co-investment.
Overview
Family offices manage UHNW family wealth and increasingly invest directly — often with more patient, flexible capital and faster decisions than institutional funds. Matchpoint maintains relationships with single and multi-family offices across the GCC, Asia and Europe.
As part of our Equity practice, Matchpoint Partners has originated and led $2+ billion of transactions across four continents, and every equity mandate is led by a partner, from first call to close.
Family offices manage the wealth of ultra-high-net-worth families and have become significant direct investors — often offering more patient, flexible capital and faster decisions than institutional funds. Matchpoint Partners maintains relationships with single and multi-family offices across the GCC, Asia and Europe, and positions your opportunity to match each office's mandate, ticket size and risk framework.
How family offices deploy capital: direct investments, co-investments alongside sponsors, and primary fund commitments.
Often more patient and flexible, with faster decisions and a relationship-led approach.
Yes — many anchor or lead rounds, especially in real assets and aligned sectors.
Family offices look for trustworthy founders, businesses they understand and alignment of values and time horizon — often favouring sectors connected to the family’s own operating heritage. Unlike funds, they are not bound by a fixed mandate, so the relationship, governance and downside protection matter as much as projected returns.
Family offices typically invest through direct minority stakes, co-investments alongside funds or sponsors, and occasionally convertible or structured instruments that protect the downside. Many prefer simple, well-governed structures with board visibility rather than heavy control rights, reflecting their patient, relationship-led approach to private company investment.
Family office capital is a better fit than private equity when a business wants a patient shareholder without a fixed exit deadline, values flexibility over a prescribed playbook, or operates in real assets and sectors families know well. Private equity suits owners seeking institutional discipline and a defined liquidity event.
Matchpoint prepares your equity story and investor materials, maps your raise against a curated base of PE funds, family offices, SWFs, VCs and strategic investors, and runs the process to close. Typical equity tickets range from USD 5m to USD 300m.
Assess the adviser against the transaction size, sector and geography; the quality of its investor-screening method; senior involvement; preparation capability; conflicts; process reporting; fee transparency; and its ability to support diligence and term-sheet comparison. Ask to see the proposed deliverables and qualification fields before any outreach begins.
The target list should record each investor's sector, stage, geography, cheque size, preferred instrument, governance requirements, relevant portfolio or transaction evidence, conflicts, relationship route and the reason the investor fits the mandate. It should be prioritised and updated as feedback is received.
Venture capital funds early-stage, high-growth companies (seed to Series C) for minority equity, while private equity backs more established businesses via growth equity, buy-outs or minority stakes. We raise both, matching the investor to your stage and sector.
Yes. We support founders from MVP traction through growth rounds — building the pitch, model and go-to-market narrative, then introducing the company to seed and growth-stage investors across MENA and India.
Engagements ordinarily combine a retainer with a success fee. Terms are agreed in writing before work begins and calibrated to the mandate’s size, scope and complexity.
Most mandates reach a first term sheet within 30 days, depending on diligence readiness and structure; closing follows once terms are agreed.
A short, confidential scoping call and NDA; we structure the requirement and prepare materials, then run a competitive process across our 5,000+ investor and lender relationships, and negotiate to close — with a partner leading at every step.
Matchpoint Partners is based in the UAE and runs cross-border mandates across the UAE, KSA, India and the UK, with active deal activity in wider Europe, Singapore and the United States.
Matchpoint undertakes corporate finance, financing, M&A and fund-placement mandates from USD 5m upwards, subject to mandate fit, diligence, applicable regulation, capacity and a written engagement. The partner team has originated and led $2+ billion of transactions.
Use the enquiry form, email contact@matchpoint-partners.com, or call/WhatsApp +971 52 345 1119. Every mandate is led by a partner from the very first conversation.
Yes. Confidential information is handled under the engagement terms and any applicable non-disclosure agreement.
How do family offices access direct and co-investment opportunities in the UAE?
Access can be arranged through direct investments, sponsor-led co-investments or deal-specific vehicles, subject to investor eligibility and the transaction's legal structure. Each opportunity needs independent assessment of the sponsor, asset or company, valuation, governance, alignment, fees, conflicts, downside protection, reporting and exit. A defined mandate helps screen opportunities consistently.
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Who this route fits
Family offices and institutional investors with a documented private-markets mandate and capacity to evaluate direct investments.
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Decisions before outreach
Direct or co-investment route; cheque size; sectors; governance; concentration; diligence; reporting; fees; conflicts; and exit.
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What to prepare
Investment mandate, eligibility and KYC information, target return and risk parameters, sector exclusions, governance and approval process.
Qualification. Investor eligibility, suitability and transaction-specific minimums apply to each opportunity.
