Buying a Distressed Business
Buy-side advisory for acquiring distressed businesses and assets, with the rescue and DIP finance to fund the deal.
Image · Buying a Distressed BusinessBuying a distressed business can create significant value, but it demands speed, disciplined diligence and financing that is ready when the opportunity is. Matchpoint runs buy-side distressed and special-situations mandates for corporates, sponsors and family offices, sourcing opportunities, structuring the acquisition, and arranging the rescue or special-situations finance to complete under pressure.
As part of our M&A practice, Matchpoint Partners has originated and led $2+ billion of transactions across four continents, and every M&A mandate is led by a partner, from first call to close.
Our role on buying a distressed business mandates
- Sourcing distressed and special-situations targets, on-market and off-market
- Asset-deal and share-deal structuring, including pre-pack and carve-out
- Accelerated diligence and risk assessment under time pressure
- Rescue, DIP and acquisition finance to fund the deal
- Negotiation with lenders, creditors and insolvency practitioners
Select transactions
Representative M&A mandates led by Matchpoint partners.
Sell-side M&A of a distressed US trophy landmark hotel.
M&A and growth for a core-banking services firm.
Chinese-controlled Italian gelato brand JV / cross-border merger.
M&A and equity raise for a gold & precious-metals mining firm.
Buy-side M&A of a UAE AI product firm by a Saudi IT-services group; synergy and dyssynergy quantification, consolidated due diligence.
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Buying a Distressed Business — frequently asked questions
A distressed acquisition can secure assets, market position, capability or talent at a price anchored to distress rather than earnings, and can be transformational when combined with fresh capital and a credible turnaround plan.
It depends on the liabilities, contracts, licences and the insolvency route. An asset deal can leave unwanted liabilities behind but may break contracts and consents; a share deal preserves the entity but inherits its obligations. We structure the route that best protects value, alongside your counsel.
A pre-pack is a sale of a business arranged before it formally enters an insolvency process and completed immediately afterwards, preserving going-concern value and continuity. It requires speed, prepared financing and careful stakeholder handling.
Often in weeks rather than months. That speed is only possible with diligence and financing prepared in parallel, which is why acquirers engage an adviser who can run the deal and arrange the capital together.
Yes. We structure and raise the rescue, debtor-in-possession, special-situations, unitranche or mezzanine capital that funds the acquisition, so your bid is credible and deliverable.
M&A advisers cover the full transaction: strategy and target screening, valuation, running the sell-side or buy-side process, due-diligence coordination, deal structuring and negotiation, and financing the acquisition. Post-merger-integration (PMI) consultants take over after close — 100-day integration planning, synergy capture and tracking, operating-model and systems integration, and talent retention. Matchpoint provides both ends: origination-to-close M&A advisory and the PMI planning that protects the value you paid for.
M&A advisory is senior-led guidance and execution across a merger, acquisition or divestment — from strategy, valuation and target or buyer identification through diligence, structuring, negotiation and completion. Matchpoint runs full sell-side and buy-side mandates, confidentially and partner-led from origination to close.
Yes — Matchpoint is UAE-licensed with partners in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, advising GCC business owners, corporates and investors on sell-side, buy-side and merger mandates, with cross-border reach into KSA, India, the UK and the US.
Matchpoint runs full sell-side mandates: we value the business, build the information memorandum, identify and approach buyers, manage diligence and negotiate to close — confidentially and senior-led throughout.
An MBO is led by existing management, an MBI by an incoming external team, and an LBO uses significant debt to fund the acquisition. We structure all three and arrange the acquisition finance.
We bridge a target's stand-alone enterprise value to the consideration paid, isolating hard, soft and financial synergies net of costs — so clients see exactly where value is created.
Matchpoint works primarily on a success fee, with a modest retainer to cover execution. Fees are agreed in writing up front and scaled to the size and complexity of the transaction — with no hidden costs.
Most sell-side and buy-side M&A processes run 4–9 months from mandate to completion, depending on diligence, regulatory approvals and negotiation.
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 has originated and led $2+ billion of transactions, with equity tickets typically USD 5m–300m, debt USD 10m–500m+, real estate finance USD 20m–500m+, and fund placements for funds of USD 50m–1bn+.
Use the enquiry form, email ck.adya@matchpoint-partners.com, or call/WhatsApp +971 52 345 1119. Every mandate is led by a partner from the very first conversation.
Yes. Matchpoint runs discreet, confidential processes and discloses client identities only under a signed non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
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