Industry
Family Business
Succession, governance, and the move from founder instinct to an operating system.
In short
Family businesses in the Gulf and along the India–GCC corridor face the same transition: a business that grew on one person's judgement now needs a system, and the family needs a governance structure separate from the executive one. We do the commercial and operating half of that work — cadence, numbers, decision rights, and the honest conversation about which family roles are executive roles.
Scope
What we do in this sector
We do this
- Operating system install: strategy, cadence, owners, numbers
- Separating family governance from executive management
- Next-generation readiness and role design
- Preparing the business for an eventual sale or partial exit
- Professionalising management accounts ahead of any transaction
We refer this
- Family constitution drafting and legal structuring
- Estate, trust and succession law
- Family mediation and therapeutic work
- Wealth and portfolio management
Services
The pillars that apply
Business Management
A working operating system for the board: strategy, cadence, owners, numbers.
ServiceMergers & Acquisitions
Buy, sell or integrate across MENA and Europe, with a real 100-day plan.
ServiceOperations Scale-up
Take a 50-person business to a 300-person machine without breaking delivery or cash.
ServiceFAQ
Frequently asked
How do you handle family dynamics?
Carefully, privately, and by staying in our lane. The technical work — numbers, cadence, decision rights — is straightforward. Where the real issue is a family relationship rather than a business structure, we say so and suggest the right kind of help, which is not us.
When should we start preparing for a sale?
Eighteen to thirty-six months before you want to run a process. Separating owner costs, building management accounts and reducing key-person dependency moves valuation far more than the information memorandum does.
Next step
Book a 30-minute briefing
No deck, no pitch. Bring one decision you are stuck on and we will work it through.