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.
Buying, not selling? Buy-side M&A execution lives with our sister firm.
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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.
Buyer Introductions
Through our sister firm A8 Advisory, which executes buy-side M&A for family offices, corporates, and funds across the GCC, we know who is buying, what they pay premiums for, and how to put your company in front of them. Introductions are delivered as part of your advisory engagement, under its disclosed fee structure.
Senior Advisory Board Access
A deal board assembled for your transaction: exited entrepreneurs, M&A operators, and negotiation specialists from our advisory network, in the room for the decisions that move the price.
Negotiation Plan & Coaching
The strategy, the walk-away points, and rehearsal before every buyer meeting, built with negotiation faculty who teach this at Georgetown. You have negotiated before. Not against a buyer's deal team, on their tenth deal, at your first.
People & Organization Due Diligence
Key-person risk mapping, retention exposure, and an org structure a buyer can read. Buyers run people diligence on you either way; we run it first, on your side.

Two ways to engage

12 months out if your books are already clean and Stage 2 of the framework is largely done. 24-36 months if there are deal-killers still to fix: owner dependency, a cap table that needs sorting, financials that would not survive diligence yet. The Business Value Assessment tells you which one you are. We run your finance function on the Strategic tier (starting from AED 30,000/month) and build readiness into every close. A 1% success fee applies only at a completed sale; no exit, no fee.

The transaction is live or imminent and your books are managed elsewhere. Retainer starting from AED 10,000/month plus a 1.5% success fee at close. The mandate expires at 18 months; if no transaction closes by then, it ends.

Entry point for either: the Financial Health Diagnostic (starting from AED 37,000, 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.

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