Maritime & Shipping
Ship finance, capital and M&A for maritime, shipping and ports businesses.
Image · Maritime & ShippingMatchpoint advises maritime, shipping and ports businesses on ship finance, capital and M&A. The UAE is one of the world’s foremost maritime hubs, and around its ports sits a mid-market of shipping, services and marine-logistics companies that need structured capital and transaction advice.
Matchpoint Partners advises maritime & shipping clients across the UAE, wider GCC, India and the United Kingdom, as part of $2+ billion of transactions led personally by our partners, from first call to close.
Our role on maritime & shipping mandates
A leading global maritime hub
The UAE is one of the world’s premier maritime centres, from its container ports to a broad ecosystem of shipping, marine-services and port-logistics businesses. This mid-market needs ship finance, structured capital and transaction advice built around the sector’s asset base and cycle.
Matchpoint advises maritime and shipping businesses on asset finance, structured debt and M&A across the region.
- Focus: Shipping, ports & marine services
- Products: Ship finance, equity, M&A
- Geography: UAE and wider region
- Approach: Partner-led advisory
Maritime & Shipping — frequently asked questions
Shipping owners and operators, ports and terminals, and marine-services and logistics businesses seeking ship finance, capital or M&A.
The UAE is a leading global maritime and re-export hub, home to major ports and a deep ecosystem of shipping, marine-services and logistics companies in the mid-market.
Twenty-three sectors across five groups: real estate, infrastructure and data centres; oil and gas, power and utilities, renewable energy, metals and mining and chemicals; industrials, business services, transportation and maritime; consumer and retail, food and beverage, healthcare and sports; and technology, media and telecom, the innovation economy, financial institutions, financial sponsors and the public sector.
Each sector page sets out the relevant transactions, leadership experience and advisory capabilities for that market.
Practice areas describe what we do — equity, debt, M&A, alternatives and execution. Industries describe who we serve. Most mandates combine both: a sector view and the right capital product.
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.
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