A deal moving through a law firm near King Fahd Road or a corporate office in KAFD needs the same thing at the same moment: deal-specific expertise available exactly when the transaction requires it, not carried as a permanent cost.

This differs from ongoing outsourced finance functions in being genuinely episodic: engaged around a specific transaction, an acquisition, a fundraise, a disposal, rather than a continuous relationship. It connects directly to financial modeling and broader corporate finance work, applied specifically to the mechanics of getting a transaction done.

Due diligence from the buy side or sell side

Buy-side diligence examines a target's financials for what the numbers actually show versus what is claimed, quality of earnings, working capital normalization, hidden liabilities. Sell-side preparation gets a business's own numbers into a state that survives a buyer's scrutiny, addressing weaknesses before a buyer's advisor finds them and uses them to justify a lower price.

Transaction structuring considerations

How a deal is structured, asset versus share purchase, earn-out mechanics, working capital adjustment mechanisms, has real financial consequences beyond the headline price, including Zakat and tax implications specific to how a Saudi transaction is structured. We work alongside legal counsel on the financial mechanics while legal handles the contractual framework, and coordinate closely with debt advisory where the transaction involves financing.

Post-transaction integration planning

A transaction's financial success depends heavily on what happens after signing: integrating financial systems and reporting, reconciling different accounting policies between combining entities, and delivering the synergies that justified the valuation in the first place, work that is easy to underestimate during deal excitement and expensive to improvise afterward.

A common Saudi scenario

A Riyadh group acquiring a smaller competitor conducts buy-side due diligence that uncovers the target's reported revenue includes a significant volume of unfulfilled orders recorded as sales prematurely, a finding that leads to renegotiating the purchase price down materially before the deal closes rather than discovering the issue as an unpleasant surprise afterward.

Working alongside your existing advisors

Transaction advisory typically coordinates with legal counsel, tax advisors and sometimes investment bankers rather than replacing any of them, with the financial advisory role specifically focused on the numbers, the model, and the deal economics underlying the broader transaction.

Timing engagement early enough to matter

Advisory brought in only once a deal is substantially agreed has far less room to influence outcomes than advisory engaged during initial structuring, when assumptions and terms are still genuinely negotiable rather than already locked into a signed term sheet.

Preparing for questions before they are asked

The strongest negotiating position comes from anticipating what a counterparty's advisor will scrutinize and addressing it proactively, rather than reacting defensively once a difficult question is actually raised during the process, a discipline connected to financial modeling rigor generally.

Local context

Family businesses in Riyadh approaching a first significant acquisition or generational ownership transition are frequent first-time engagers of this service, while Riyadh businesses preparing for external investment often need sell-side preparation specifically.