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Outbound Investment Advisory
Opportunity screening, market mapping and evaluation. Counterparty introductions.
Dubai · Est. 2026
We advise Gulf capital on direct investments abroad.
We support selected technology, real-estate and energy mandates — from opportunity screening and commercial due diligence, through regulatory coordination, to post-investment governance.
Discuss a potential mandate →
Enquiries are read by the founder, not by a mailbox.
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Capabilities
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Transaction Advisory & Due Diligence
Commercial due diligence, valuation support, and one consolidated commercial view across advisers and jurisdictions.
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Regulatory Coordination
Foreign investment screening workstreams — CFIUS, EU FDI, the UK NSIA, China's negative list — run with the client's appointed advisers.
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Post-Investment Governance
Board or observer appointments, reporting, and oversight against the case agreed at entry.
What we take on
We work only where we have relevant transaction and on-the-ground experience.
That rule is the reason we decline more enquiries than we accept. Where a market or a sector falls outside it, we say so in the first conversation rather than the fourth.
Direct, not intermediated
Equity in operating businesses and real assets — acquisitions, growth positions, joint ventures and co-investment alongside a lead. Not funds, not listed securities, not structured products.
Three sectors
Technology, real estate and energy. Each is a sector where the regulatory regime and the operating partner decide the outcome as much as the price does.
Governance from entry
We prefer positions that carry board or observer rights, because the work that protects the investment happens after completion rather than before it.
A mandate may involve up to four stages. Each pre-completion stage ends at a decision point at which you may choose not to authorise the next one.
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Mandate
What you are trying to own, and what you will not accept in order to own it. Agreed in writing.
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Ground
Site visits, management meetings and commercial diligence, reconciled into one view.
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Structure
Deal and approval path worked together with your appointed counsel. May overlap with 02.
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Govern
Begins only after completion, under a separate engagement.
Independence
No financial product sales. No seller- or third-party-paid referral fees. No fees contingent on completion.
Fees for each authorised stage are agreed in advance and do not depend on whether the transaction completes. Third-party costs are passed through without mark-up. The treatment of any mid-stage termination is set out in the engagement letter.
The activities that fall outside our mandate are listed in full under Capabilities.
Enquiries
Discuss a potential mandate.
Every enquiry is read by the founder. Please do not send sensitive transaction materials before a non-disclosure agreement is in place.
Send an enquiry or write to enquiries@lighthousebasira.com