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Middle East

Where capital is relocating, not just allocating.

The Gulf is moving into innovation with state backing and a speed no western market matches. Sovereign programmes, regulatory regimes built specifically to attract digital asset and technology business, and a concentration of family offices that have physically relocated rather than merely opened accounts.

Israel is a separate proposition in the same region: one of the deepest pools of deep technology, security, and applied artificial intelligence in the world, with a company formation culture closer to Silicon Valley than to its neighbours. GDA covers both, and the difference between them is the point.

What the market brings

Capital that moved

Family offices and international investors have relocated to Dubai and Abu Dhabi rather than allocating from a distance. Proximity changes what gets funded and how quickly.

Sovereign ambition

Innovation is national policy, underwritten by state capital and matched by regulators building regimes to attract it. Mandates move at government pace, which here means fast.

Israeli technical depth

Deep technology, cryptography and security, and applied AI, with a founder culture that builds for global markets from the first day.

Transaction experience

Dubai · Abu Dhabi · Tel Aviv · Bahrain

Presence

Covered from Toronto and Mumbai. No permanent office in the region at present.

Businesses active here

Investment Banking

Capital formation and cross-border advisory between Gulf capital and companies in the firm’s other markets.

Private Equity

Growth positions in Israeli deep technology and Gulf-based platforms.

Innovation

Jurisdictional structuring across Gulf regimes built expressly for digital asset and technology business.

Where the firm concentrates

Family office capital

Direct relationships with principals who have moved to the region, and who underwrite on judgement rather than committee.

Israel deep technology

Security, cryptography, and applied AI — sectors where the firm’s own technical capability is a diligence advantage.

Proof

Transaction experience

Israel, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Bahrain.

Other markets

Discuss a mandate.

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Locations in Middle East

Dubai — Gulf capitalAbu Dhabi — Sovereign programmesAll locations

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