Our Services

Saffar Capital will work closely with your company to review and evaluate the business with a view to developing and negotiating the appropriate structure for both buy and sell side transactions. Whether you are looking for capital enhancement or a liquidity event, Saffar Capital will work with you to position the business in an optimal manner, identify potential investors, select the appropriate sale process or identify appropriate acquisition targets.

Advisory services for family owned business:

Saffar Capital recognizes that privately held family-owned and managed businesses are the mainstay of MENA economies.  Many of these firms have been in operation for decades, having grown from small scale trading to multi-industry, pan-regional operations.  The success of family businesses, however, has not come without growing pains and external challenges.  Many of these businesses have informal shareholdings, underdeveloped corporate structures and a limited view of outside markets.  Whether seeking private equity investment opportunities or new markets for their products, international players are increasingly coming in contact with these family-owned businesses as competitors or potential investors.  Given Saffar Capital’s local knowledge and international experience, the company is uniquely positioned to advise privately held, family businesses on how to best manage such internal and external challenges.

Saffar Capital's advisory services help family businesses to:

• Navigate the challenges of generational change within a family owned business;
• Institutionalize the company and undertake necessary restructuring to form a proper corporate structure and shareholding arrangement;
• Secure required growth capital;
• Assess future strategy and identify appropriate partners (trade versus private equity);
• Understand and manage legal issues which affect commercial value and operations of the business; and
• Launch a new business line or scale and existing interest regionally.

Specifically, Saffar Capital can assist family businesses to:

• Properly react to an unsolicited bid from an outside investor for part or all of the family business;
• Indentify appropriate targets for strategic partnership or acquisition in order to expand business regionally or internationally
• Navigate and design appropriate corporate and legal structures to prepare for a transaction;
• Determine the size of the stake to be bought or sold and associated implications on control of the company;
• Optimally structure the terms of the bidding process, be it an auction or negotiated sale;
• Secure strategic partners with sector, market, or financial expertise;
• Capitalize on the competitive advantages of the firm;
• Assess and capture the true value of the firm in a sale or determine the optimal price for purchasing into a target;
• Successfully manage the transaction process; and
• Monetize decades of wealth creation or secure an expansion via acquisition.