Financial and strategic advisory
Advice you understand.
Decisions you own.
We advise business owners, family groups and investors on selling a business, raising capital, buying a company and restructuring a group, across the GCC, the Levant, Africa and the US. We run the process with you and explain every step, so each decision is yours and made with full knowledge.
Mandates in eight countries: the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Lebanon, Jordan, Nigeria, South Africa and the United States.
How a sale works
Typically six to nine months
- 1
Prepare
Weeks 1 to 6You decide whether to sell, when, and at what price.
- 2
Approach buyers
Weeks 6 to 10You decide which buyers we contact.
- 3
Indicative offers
Weeks 10 to 14You choose who goes through to due diligence.
- 4
Due diligence
Weeks 14 to 22You see every question and every answer.
- 5
Negotiate and sign
Weeks 22 to 28You agree the final terms, clause by clause.
- 6
Complete
After signingYou keep the model, the materials and the data room.
Raising capital follows a similar path.
Read the full guideUSD300m
Transactions of up to USD 300 million worked on by our partners
USD98m
In two investment funds our partners helped set up and manage
20+
Clients advised by CYG on sales, raises and structuring
8
Countries where CYG has advised clients
How we work
You should understand your deal as well as we do.
A good advisor leaves a client more capable, not more dependent. On every mandate, that comes down to four commitments.
01
Nothing hidden
You see every buyer or investor we approach, every piece of feedback and every offer, as it comes in.
02
Every step explained
Before each decision we set out the options, the trade-offs and our recommendation in plain language. Then you decide.
03
The work is yours
Models, valuations and materials are handed over in editable form, with every assumption written down.
04
Your team learns
We work alongside your finance team so that the model, the data room and investor reporting keep running after we leave.
Where we help
We advise at the moments that change a company.
Selling all or part of a business
A competitive process that finds the right buyer and the right price.
Guide: how a sale worksRaising capital
Equity or debt for growth, with a model and a story investors trust.
Guide: what investors look forBuying a company
Screening, valuation and negotiation, so you do not overpay.
Guide: buying without overpayingGetting ready for a sale or raise
What a buyer or investor will see first, fixed before you go to market.
Guide: what investors check firstValuing a business
An independent value for a sale, a raise or a shareholder change.
How we value a businessAssessing a new project
Whether a new plant, market or business line is worth the investment.
Guide: what a credible model containsEntering the GCC
Structure, partners and set-up for a new market in the Gulf.
Guide: holding structures in the UAEReorganising a group
A holding structure that fits how you own, run and may one day sell.
Guide: when to restructureRunning the finance function
Reporting, cash and investor relations, without a full-time CFO.
Guide: when you need an outsourced CFOTrack record
Experience on both sides of the table.
Our partners have spent their careers inside transactions: as advisors, as fund managers and as operators. That experience includes:
- Setting up and managing a USD 50 million private equity fund and a USD 48 million government-backed venture capital fund, from the offering memorandum to board seats and exits.
- Structuring a USD 111 million bid for a regional insurer present in nine countries, as the platform for a sector consolidation.
- Exits and disposals for a multi-family office, including the sale of its stake in a regional distribution joint venture to a global building-products group.
- Debt restructurings, synergy assessments and valuations across the Levant and the Gulf.
- Running businesses ourselves: the turnaround of a third-generation trading group, and a consumer-goods distributor built from the ground up.
Where CYG has advised clients
- United Arab Emirates
- Saudi Arabia
- Qatar
- Lebanon
- Jordan
- Nigeria
- South Africa
- United States
Experience
Selected mandates.
Client names stay confidential. We can discuss relevant work in more detail under an NDA.
Capital raise
Advertising and digital media group
UAE
Sell-side
Gaming company
UAE
Sell-side
Model, structuring and investor materials for a sale
Saudi Arabia
Expansion and structuring
Regional healthcare group
GCC
Consolidation
Broadband sector, with fund structuring
Nigeria
Capital raise
Telecom business seeking growth capital
South Africa
Valuation
Auto storage and transport business, ahead of a raise
United States
Sell-side
Logistics business built on proprietary technology
United States
Eight of the engagements described on our Experience page.
See all engagementsGuides
Learn how deals work before you need to.
Plain-language guides on selling, raising capital, valuation and structuring, written by the people who run the deals.
Who you work with
Senior people, from the first call to completion.
Every mandate is led by a managing director, and we take on a limited number at a time. The people who scope the work are the people who do it.
Because we have been investors and operators as well as advisors, we know what buyers and investors will test, and we prepare you for it.
Our standards
- 01
We sign an NDA before you share anything.
- 02
Scope and fees are agreed in writing before work starts.
- 03
We never act for both sides of a transaction.
- 04
We do not name clients without their consent.
Considering a sale,
a raise or an acquisition?
Speak to a managing director in confidence. We reply within one working day.