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Given the high velocity of today’s fast moving and changing global market, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) represent the cornerstone to achieve growth, competitive advantage and corporate restructuring. Merger and acquisition services offer strategic and legal framework that ensures success whether your intent is to grow your company, enter new markets, or optimize your existing business structure. With years of experience in M&As, AR Associates provides you with a complete set of merger and acquisition services, minimizing risks and helping you to go through the complexity of cooperating.

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What are Merger and Acquisition Services?

There are various specialized advisory and execution services related to merger and acquisition offered by legal consultants, financial advisors and corporate strategists. These services help companies go through the long and tiring process of merging with another company or buying another organization. Regardless of whether you are attempting a merger — when two or more companies join to create one organization — or an acquisition — one entity gaining control of another — our team at AR Associates will ensure that the process is as smooth, legally sound, and on strategy as possible.smooth, legally sound, and aligned with your strategic goals.

We provide merger and acquisition services to allow you to unlock new growth opportunities, expand your market presence and improve your operational and financial strength. For you we’re here with our expertise from M&A planning in the beginning to the negotiation, the due diligence, and final integration.

How it Works?

The M&A Process: Step by Step

Our legal advisory services at AR Associates cover the major areas of the law that businesses require to be in operation in the UAE. Whether you need assistance with setting up a new company, or ongoing legal matters, our team of legal consultants in Dubai has you covered with a first class level of quality legal support. Some of our core legal services include:

Initial Strategy and Planning

Your M&A journey starts with a deep dive into your Company’s current position (including current revenues, current customers, target ADR, % of deal day winners), future growth objectives, and strategic goals. This is where we spend a great deal of time with you to understand why you’ve decided to pursue a merger or acquisition. From market expansion, operational synergies, technological advancement, our merger and acquisition services center on a clear strategy that supports your business objectives.

Target Identification and Screening

Our team of experts works to identify potential merger and acquisition targets which are in line with your strategy. It means doing proper market research, analyzing your competitors & doing the financial evaluation. We analyze all the key factors such as market presence, profitability, and operational fit for the target company and make sure that the target company fits in your growth plans.

Due Diligence

The Due diligence stage is one of the most important stages of any merger and acquisition. It requires a very detailed examination of target company’s (i) financial statements, (ii) legal obligations, (iii) intellectual property, (iv) contracts, and (v) overall operation. In our case, our M&A team goes through a meticulous review to take out all the possible risks and opportunities resulting from the merger or acquisition.

Valuation and Deal Structuring

After due diligence, we give you a fair and accurate valuation of the target company. Additionally, we help to structure the deal to align with your financial objective and risk desire. Whatever it is, equity swap, cash transaction, or leveraged buyout, we create a structure that helps you achieve the highest value and lowest risk.

Negotiation and Documentation

Merger or acquisition is a complex and delicate process of negotiating terms. During the negotiation phase our legal team will protect your interests fully. We draft and review all of the necessary legal documents, including merger agreements, purchase agreements and shareholder agreements, and we do so all in accordance with regulatory requirements.

Regulatory Approvals and Closing

Depending on the industry and location, regulatory approvals may be required before the M&A transaction can be completed. We navigate the regulatory landscape so that everything is approved on time. After that, once approvals are in place, we walk you through the final closing process to make sure everything is legal and financial.

Risks of Mergers and Acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions do offer tremendous growth opportunities, however they also have inherent risks. We at AR Associates know there are potential pitfalls and work with you to address those via our merger and acquisition services. Some of the common risks include:

1. Cultural Clash

Clash of corporate culture is one of the most common risk of mergers and acquisitions. When two organizations have different values, practices, and work environment, the employee will be unhappy, productivity of the employees will be lost, and integration will not be effective. However, our M&A experts dedicate time to cultural alignment during that process.

2. Overvaluation

Overpaying for a target company can lead to significant financial strain post-merger. Through our due diligence and valuation services, we help you to mitigate the exposure to overvaluation by undertaking extensive investigation to what the target company is actually worth.

3. Integration Challenges

This is not easy to integrate the operations, systems, personnel of two companies into one new company. If, integration is not done properly, you can end up with operational inefficiencies, loss of critical personnel and customer dissatisfaction. To minimize disruptions and keep the transition smooth we create a detailed integration plan.

What Sets Us apart

Why Choose AR Associates for Merger and Acquisition Services?

We at AR Associates are proud to provide you with the services of end to end merger and acquisition to meet your requirements and help you expand. Here’s why you should choose us for your Merger and Acquisition Services:

Expert Legal and Financial Advisory

Our team of legal consultants and financial advisors are experienced in handling complex M&A transactions across various industries.

Customized M&A Strategies

We know that every business is different. We develop tailored M&A strategies that fit with your company’s objectives and the market in which you operate.

Risk Mitigation

We address how to minimize the risks of mergers and acquisitions to make a successful transaction from cultural integration to regulatory compliance.

Comprehensive Support

At every step of the way through the M&A process, we support you — from strategy development through to closing the deal.

Our Merger and Acquisition Services Include

  • Merger and Acquisition Strategy Development
  • Target Identification and Screening
  • Due Diligence
  • Valuation and Deal Structuring
  • Negotiation and Documentation
  • Post-Merger Integration Support

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We’re proud to support the next wave of innovative businesses in Dubai, a hotspot for startups. So if you are considering starting a new company in Dubai, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve helped startup companies in Dubai all the way to large scale enterprises become established here.

Our consultants will work through each stage alongside you to help you navigate the specific challenges that startup face and assist you in the company formation and registration process to ensure your venture is set up for success from day one.

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