For Investors
Underwriteowner-managedbusinessestoinstitutionalstandard.
For funds deploying into SME buyouts and growth-stage equity, where the diligence work on owner-managed books is usually the thing that costs you the deal.
Independent buy-side advisory. We do the analysis; you make the decisions; a licensed firm executes.
A8 Innovation Consultancies Co. L.L.C
What we bring
Diligence built to institutional standard.
QoE review, working capital analysis, and revenue quality testing on businesses whose books were kept for tax rather than for a buyer. This is the work that normally consumes weeks of a standard process.
We know what prepared looks like, because we prepare businesses.
Our sister practice, Exit Builders, spends every day getting owner-managed businesses to institutional standard. We can tell you quickly whether a target's numbers will hold up, and what it would take to fix them if they will not.
Valuation and scenario modelling.
Three scenarios, the assumptions behind each, and the sensitivities that actually move the answer. You choose the number you underwrite to.
Jurisdiction questions flagged early.
Onshore, free zone, and foreign-ownership considerations, and their equivalents in whichever jurisdiction a deal sits, surfaced early so your counsel can address them before commercial terms are finalized.
A direct path into standing portfolio oversight.
Once a deal closes, the same team can install the financial governance the portfolio company needs from day one. See Portfolio Oversight →
People & organization diligence
Led by Roula Akl, 22 years in leadership assessment and post-merger integration (PwC, Booz & Co, Omantel, ZainTECH; certified Hogan and Saville assessor). For a fund evaluating a target's management team, this answers the question a financial model cannot: does the leadership you are acquiring actually hold together without the departing owner in the room.
Roula also works on the seller side at Exit Builders. She is never engaged on both sides of the same transaction, and information does not cross between engagements.
Who this is for
Partners and Investment Directors at funds deploying capital into SME buyouts or growth-stage equity rounds, where the diligence burden on owner-managed books is the constraint an in-house team or a generic advisory relationship cannot absorb.
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