Transaction Advisory Services in the UAE
Markef’s Transaction Advisory service helps with the seamless execution of transactions, identifying important points of value and negotiation, and implementing the modifications required to generate synergies after completion, including mergers, acquisitions, disposals, restructuring, and capital raising.
Comprehensive transaction lifecycle support, from initial strategy to post-completion delivery.
Multidisciplinary skills in investment banking, public accounting, and management consulting
Independent, evidence-based analysis that can stand up to bank, investor, and regulatory scrutiny
Our team combines strong technical expertise with a business mentality, resulting in clear, pragmatic suggestions that assist management in making confident decisions without diverting time or capital away from core activities.
What is Transaction Advisory Service
Transaction advisory refers to a range of professional services that assist a company in navigating a major financial transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, disposal, restructuring, or capital raise. It encompasses due diligence, valuation, deal structure, negotiating support, and post-transaction integration, all of which are intended to maximize the likelihood that the purchase will result in the desired value.
Transaction advisory is sometimes confused with the more broad phrase “deal advisory.” Deal advisory typically refers to the strategic front end of a deal, which includes identifying opportunities and assuring alignment with long-term corporate goals. Transaction advisory takes over from there, focusing on the practical aspects of the transaction itself, such as structuring, financial analysis, negotiating, and the operational work required to successfully close and integrate.
When You Need Transaction Advisory Services
You require transaction advisory support if your company is:
- Examining development potential in the UAE and determining how a transaction could promote such growth.
- Selling a company or portion of a company, and wish to provide potential purchasers with a thorough, convincing picture of the business
- Planning to buy a business and want to understand the main financial risks in the context of the UAE market.
- Negotiating a Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) for a potential acquisition Evaluating the viability of a business strategy, including sensitivities, upside scenarios, and risks
- Evaluate the synergy potential of a certain transaction before committing to it. Seeking a clear knowledge of the underlying valuation of a business being considered for purchase or sale.
- Consider an IPO, debt financing, or private placement.
- Needing an impartial assessment of your business's transaction preparedness before beginning a procedure.
Buy-Side and Sell-Side Support
If you're buying or investing:
our buy-side due diligence gives you an independent view of what you're actually paying for — the value drivers, the risks, and the issues that should be negotiated into price or protected through the sale agreement, before you're committed.
If you're selling:
a vendor due diligence report puts you in control of the narrative. Addressing weaknesses before a buyer finds them, and presenting your financial position with independent credibility, tends to shorten the process and protect the value you've built — which matters most for owner-run and family businesses going through a sale for the first time.
Our Transaction Advisory Services
Markef’s Transaction Advisory practice oversees the financial and commercial workstreams associated with a transaction, collaborating closely with our dedicated Acquisition Due Diligence, Vendor Due Diligence, and SPA Advisory teams on deal-specific investigation and documentation work.
Deal Modelling
Building strong financial models that support a seller's growth story, increase transparency for finance providers and buy-side investors, and withstand scrutiny during bank and creditor talks. This comprises returns evaluation, sensitivity analysis, and cash flow stress testing for companies planning an IPO or loan issue.
Purchase Price Allocation
The consideration paid for an acquisition is allocated among tangible and intangible assets, as well as goodwill, in accordance with IFRS rules, so that the transaction is properly recorded in post-completion financial statements.
Support for the CFO Office
Assisted finance teams in improving cash performance through working capital management, aligning projections with strategic strategies through strong budgeting and forecasting, and providing clear, timely board and management reporting throughout transaction periods.
Decision Support
Translating technical and commercial due diligence into comprehensive financial feasibility studies, using standard investment appraisal metrics to evaluate strategic options and weigh evidence before a decision is made.
For due diligence and Sale and Purchase Agreement work specifically, our dedicated Acquisition Due Diligence, Vendor Due Diligence, and SPA Advisory teams provide the detailed investigation and documentation support that complements the analysis above.
Our Approach to Transaction Advisory
Markef’s Transaction Advisory team optimises outcomes for clients by gaining a thorough grasp of alternative options and the challenges unique to each transaction.
Our personnel have experience in investment banking, public accounting, and management consulting, so customers get a multidisciplinary perspective rather than a single lens view of the transaction. We assist management of private equity firms, conglomerates, and holding companies in making significant business decisions without devoting time or capital to developing costly reporting systems from scratch, freeing up liquidity for the operational priorities that are most important during a transaction period.
Our hands-on, entrepreneurial approach achieves outcomes even in short timelines by proactively identifying difficulties and opportunities and maintaining a consistent focus on the aspects that produce value in a transaction.
Why Choose Markef's for Transaction Advisory?
Markef has provided audit, accounting, and consulting services to UAE firms since 1985, giving our Transaction consulting practice a foundation in verifiable financial analysis rather than deal-driven incentives alone.
- Multidisciplinary expertise: Our team has backgrounds in investment banking, public accounting, and management consulting.
- We provide full lifecycle coverage, from transaction modeling and CFO support to Purchase Price Allocation, in collaboration with our dedicated due diligence and SPA teams.
- Sector breadth: expertise in finance, real estate, trading, technology, and manufacturing deals.
- Established track record: almost four decades of assisting UAE firms with sophisticated financial operations.
- Evaluate the synergy potential of a certain transaction before committing to it. Seeking a clear knowledge of the underlying valuation of a business being considered for purchase or sale.
- Consider an IPO, debt financing, or private placement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Transaction advisory refers to the professional services that help a firm navigate a big financial transaction, such as due diligence, valuation, deal structure, negotiating support, and post-acquisition integration. It seeks to increase the likelihood that a transaction will yield the expected value.
Deal advisory often refers to the early, strategic stage of a transaction, which involves finding opportunities and establishing alignment with long-term business objectives. Transaction advisory continues from there, focusing on the practical aspects of the transaction, such as structuring, financial analysis, negotiation, and integration.
Buy-side consulting services help businesses acquire or invest in target companies by assisting with target selection, due diligence, and negotiation. Sell-side advice services help a company sell in part or in full, including buyer identification, financial analysis, and value improvement prior to discussions.
Transaction advisory is most useful when engaged early on, ideally before a merger, acquisition, sale, restructuring, or capital issue is completed. Early engagement enables smart, well-informed judgments and increases the transaction’s value.
Purchase Price Allocation is the process of distributing the consideration paid for an acquisition among tangible assets, intangible assets, and goodwill in accordance with IFRS. It ensures that the acquisition is accurately reported in the purchasing company’s post-completion financial statements.
acquisition advising analyzes financial, legal, and operational risks throughout the acquisition process, from due diligence results to deal structure, allowing both parties to make educated decisions and prevent costly surprises after closing.
Yes. Beyond acquisition completion, transaction consulting can aid with post-transaction integration, such as aligning systems, processes, and reporting structures to help the merged organization realize the value the transaction was based upon.
Acquisition Due Diligence is a focused assessment of a target company’s financial, operational, and commercial status. Transaction Advisory encompasses the strategy, modeling, and structuring work that surrounds due diligence results across the entire deal lifecycle.
Yes, Markef serves both buy-side and sell-side customers, collaborating with our dedicated Acquisition Due Diligence, Vendor Due Diligence, and SPA advice teams to provide comprehensive transaction advice services.
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