M&A & Exit Support

Enter the deal ready. Leave it whole.

Sell-side support for founders and owners preparing for, or already in, a transaction. Every engagement is scoped from named deliverables, so you know exactly what you are buying and exactly what the other side will receive.

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The deliverables

Pre-Sale Readiness Assessment

The full diligence lens applied before a buyer applies it: financial, operational, and structural gaps ranked by deal impact.

Quality of Earnings Review

Normalized EBITDA, revenue quality, one-off adjustments, and the earnings story a buyer's QoE team will test against.

Financial Statement Preparation

Three years of restated, clean, auditable financials, with reconciliations that tie.

Cap Table & Equity Analysis

Clean tie-out of ownership, options, and preferences, plus waterfall scenarios so you know what any headline number actually means for you.

Data Room Preparation

The structured financial data room: historicals, schedules, contracts index, and repeatable responses to the request list. Typically 3-4 weeks.

Forecasting & Scenario Modeling

A buyer-facing financial model with scenarios and sensitivity analysis a diligence analyst can trace.

Valuation Range

EBITDA multiples, DCF, and comparable transactions: a number with a basis, not a wish.

Information Memorandum Support

The financial section, narrative, and trading history: the argument for why the business is worth what you are asking.

Diligence Support & Response

We sit on your side of the table through request lists, buyer Q&A, SPA financial schedules, and close.

Two ways to engage

You are 12-36 months out. We run your finance function on the Strategic tier (AED 30,000/month) and build readiness into every close. A success fee applies only at a completed sale, disclosed in your proposal; no exit, no fee.

Standalone Exit Mandate

The transaction is live or imminent and your books are managed elsewhere. Retainer AED 10,000/month for 6-18 months plus a success fee at close, disclosed in your proposal. The mandate has a defined expiry; if no transaction closes, it ends.

Entry point for either: the Financial Health Diagnostic (AED 37,000-92,000, 2-4 weeks, AED 9,175 credited if you continue within 30 days). Accelerated scoping under an active LOI.

Without us / With us

Without us

With us

The buyer's QoE team finds the adjustments

Your QoE story is written before they arrive

A data room assembled in a panic

A data room that answers questions before they are asked

One buyer, one price, no leverage

A prepared seller who can run a real process

Deal talk leaking to staff and market

A process that is silent until you decide otherwise

Methodology

This service is the applied version of the 6-Stage Framework, refined across 50+ analyzed regional deals. Explore the Framework

We operate under NDA with every client. We do not disclose relationships, and we do not share your data without written permission. Working with Exit Builders does not signal anything to your market, your team, or your board. It means you are running a disciplined company.

Find out where you stand. In minutes. Free.

Start with the free Business Value Assessment: a clear preliminary read on your business, no account needed.

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Enter the deal ready. Leave it whole.

The deliverables

Two ways to engage

Without us / With us

Without us

With us

Methodology

Find out where you stand. In minutes. Free.

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