Succession & Ownership Transition

Years before any transaction — options narrow sharply once health, disputes or distress force the timetable.

Yes — partial sales and staged transfers let families take liquidity while keeping control or a continuing stake.

Global evidence suggests only a minority survive the transfer — and fewer than one in five GCC family businesses has a comprehensive succession plan, against a USD 1tn regional handover this decade.

Yes — partial sales, staged transfers and minority investments let families release value while keeping control or a continuing stake.

Practitioners call them the five Ds — death, disability, divorce, disagreement and distress; roughly half of exits are forced, and forced sellers negotiate without leverage.

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 based in the UAE, 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.

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 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 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.