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How a mandate runs
Most of the work in a UAE SME sale is not finding interest. It is filtering it, protecting it, and closing it without anyone outside the deal ever hearing about it before you decide. This is the path from a first WhatsApp message to a signed SPA.
The path
Every gate exists to protect the owner.
A qualified buyer list of six is worth more than an enquiry list of sixty, and it is the only way a confidential process stays confidential from your staff, your landlord, and your competitors.
First message
You write to us on WhatsApp. We discuss the business, the numbers, the shareholder position, and what you actually want from an exit. Nothing is committed and nothing leaves the room.
Underwriting
We normalise seller discretionary earnings from your VAT returns, bank statements, and payroll records, cross-checked against each other, and test the result against the buyer-yield standard the market actually uses.
Valuation range
You receive a written range with the reasoning behind it, an asset floor, and the soft points stated plainly. If the gap between the market and your expectation is not bridgeable this year, we say so before you commit to a process.
Exclusive mandate, all shareholders signed
We work on one exclusive mandate per company, signed by every shareholder, with the constitutional documents checked for pre-emption and drag or tag rights before any preparation begins. Terms are set out in writing first.
Quiet marketing under codename
Your business is never named. Buyers see an anonymised profile under a project codename, built from the underwriting work, with real figures behind it but nothing that identifies you.
Six buyer gates
Intake, NDA plus identification, proof of funds, a track record question, a decision map, then a meeting. No counterparty receives your name, your location, or your financials until every gate clears. This is the rule the practice is built on.
LOI
Once a qualified buyer has met you and confirmed interest, heads of terms are negotiated and a letter of intent is signed, setting the diligence timetable both sides will hold to.
Diligence: the VAT, bank, and payroll triangle
The buyer's counsel tests the same figures we underwrote at the start against your VAT returns, bank statements, and payroll records. Because that triangle was checked before the mandate was signed, diligence confirms the number instead of eroding it.
SPA and completion
Your counsel and ours finalise the sale and purchase agreement. Structures are typically cash-heavy, with post-dated cheques used as deferred security rather than left on trust, and completion is attended by the principal.
A process that leaks costs you long before completion. Staff start planning their own exits. A landlord hears a rumour and asks questions. A competitor uses the news against you with customers. And a buyer who senses the process is loose will use diligence to chip at the price, because they know you are exposed either way. Confidentiality is not a clause inside the mandate. It is the mandate.
In three steps
Start the way every mandate starts.
Message us
Write on WhatsApp with a short outline of the business. The conversation is free and confidential from the first line, with no obligation.
Send your figures
VAT returns, bank statements, and payroll records let us underwrite the business properly, usually within 48 to 72 hours.
Decide
Review the written range and the mandate terms. You may walk away at any point before signing, at no cost.
Next step
Start with a conversation, not a form.
Tell us what you own and we will tell you plainly whether it is worth taking further.