Locations · Middle East
Dubai.
Gulf capital. Dubai is where global capital physically relocated. Family offices and international investors have moved to the emirate rather than allocating from a distance, and its regulators built regimes expressly to attract digital asset and technology business — the VARA framework being the clearest example anywhere.
GDA's Dubai coverage is led on the ground: Venture Partner David Brierley is based in the emirate, carrying the firm's mandate across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The desk connects relocated capital to the firm's global transaction flow, and gives portfolio companies a structured route into Gulf partnerships and Gulf capital.
Active in Dubai
Investment Banking
Capital formation between Gulf capital and companies across the firm's markets.
Private Equity
Positions in Gulf-based platforms and relocated ventures.
Innovation
Structuring under regimes built for digital asset business.
On the record
Transaction experience
Dubai named in the firm's Middle East footprint.
Convening
The firm's family office summit programme draws Gulf principals.