At ADG Legal, our corporate team offers strategic, end-to-end support on public and private M&A transactions, ensuring seamless execution from due diligence through to completion.

We have advised on high-value acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, mergers, and strategic alliances across the region, acting as both lead and local counsel. Our multilingual, cross-border team combines international law firm experience with deep regional knowledge.

Many of the region’s major transactions are governed by English law, particularly those involving foreign investors, sovereign funds, and cross-border elements. Our English law-qualified lawyers regularly advise on transactions governed by the laws of England & Wales, as well as within the DIFC and ADGM; two common law financial free zones in the UAE.

We support clients through every phase of the deal, including structuring, pre-closing restructuring, regulatory approvals, and corporate governance. Our M&A team advises clients across key sectors, offering commercially focused, sector-specific insights.

Key Highlights

• Advised the founders of an innovative online marketplace for groceries (with app-enabled payment and delivery) that operates across the UAE on the sale of the company to UAE’s biggest telecoms operator.
• Advised a foreign company on the sale of a majority ownership interest in a UAE company that owns and operates steel manufacturing facility in a Free Zone of the UAE.
• Representing growth capital investor in its $292 million secondary fundraising for the UK-based cross-border money transfer service.
• Representing a NASDAQ-listed enterprise solutions company on the acquisitions of four European companies, totaling over $200 million.
• Advised a global player in the Event Space Industry on the acquisition of an strategic target in the MENA region, with due diligence being performed on 5 different commercial entities across 3 different international jurisdictions.  With a potential deal value of AED 50 million.
• Successfully advised a market leader in the Event Space Industry on the strategic acquisition of a young UK company with highly valued Intellectual Property assets and a growing portfolio of clients.
• Advised an Africa Sovereign Wealth Fund on a co-investment in an oil storage facility.