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Arqaam provides Corporate Finance advising and arranging services in relation to mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, capital restructuring and fundraising services, focusing on MENA cross-border mid-cap transactions. Services include:
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Arqaam provides Corporate Finance advising and arranging services in relation to mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, capital restructuring and fundraising services, focusing on MENA cross-border mid-cap transactions. Services include:

Mergers and Acquisitions: Sell-side

Advising sellers on divestments and securing buyer or strategic investors for their businesses.  Provided services include:

  • Preparation for sale, including structuring, valuation and marketing presentations
  • Identification of potential buyers and strategic investors
  • Preparation and execution of marketing road show
  • Negotiation and handholding throughout including due diligence, term sheet, definitive agreement, completion and post-completion stages

Mergers and Acquisitions: Buy-side

Advising buyers on acquisitions and expansion opportunities. Provided services include:

  • Evaluation of strategic expansion opportunities
  • Target identification, evaluation and contact
  • Negotiation and handholding throughout including due diligence, term sheet, definitive agreement, completion and post-completion stages

Strategic Alliances

Advising companies on opportunities to ally, joint venture, pool resources or otherwise collaborate with each other for mutual benefit. Provided services include:

  • Identification of opportunities to gain access to markets, technology, capital, know-how or other benefits
  • Identification of target partner, including understanding culture, commercial aims and operations to determine right fit
  • Evaluation and contact
  • Negotiation and handholding throughout including due diligence, term sheet, definitive agreement, completion and post-completion stages

Capital Restructuring

Advising companies on capital structures and restructuring as necessary for improved efficiency, liquidity, capital raising or avoiding bankruptcy. Provided services include:

  • Understanding the business and its financial condition, including cash flow reviews
  • Reviewing funding and equity or debt capital raising options
  • Reviewing structuring, ownership, and share capital structures for efficiency in terms of costs, staffing, tax, accounting, legal, etc

Fundraising

Advising companies to raise capital through equity or debt raising options on a private placement basis or without recourse to public markets. Provided services include:

  • Fundraising preparation, structing and valuation
  • Preparing marketing material
  • Identification of potential lenders and investors
  • Preparation and execution of marketing roadshow
Capital Markets Advisory

Capital Advisory

Arqaam provides Capital Markets advisory and arranging services to assist companies and governments to raise capital from:

  • Equity Capital markets, including, initial public offerings (IPO), pre-IPO equity raises, secondary placings and rights offerings 
  • Debt Capital Markets, including primary issuance of bonds, sukuks, perpetual bonds and structured debt

Financial Advisory

Arqaam can act as financial adviser, bookrunner/issue lead manager and arranger on such transactions. Provided services include:

  • Business, financial and transaction feasibility analysis
  • Advice on selection of listing exchange, timing, structure and terms of a transaction
  • Recommendation on selection of legal and other professional advisers 
  • Assistance with drafting marketing material and offering memoranda
  • Identification of potential investors and bookbuilding
  • Support and assistance in relation to investor roadshows
  • Coordinating and leading the syndicate of financial institutions involved in the transaction