Dubai · United Arab Emirates · Cross-border advisory

Where opportunity finds its counterpart.

A boutique advisory firm built around a single corridor and the relationships that move capital across it.

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Conversation at a time
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Practices, narrowly focused
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Continents of live deal experience
20+
Years of principal investment experience
The firm

A bridge,
not a broker.

Most cross-border advisory in the region is transactional. A deal is moved. A fee is taken. The relationship ends.

Capital Partners was built differently. We exist to be a long-term counterpart to a small number of investors, principals, and operating businesses on both sides of a single corridor — the one that runs between the UAE and the rest of the world.

The firm is led by a small group of principals whose experience spans public markets, private equity, and cross-border advisory across the GCC, Europe, and the United Kingdom.

We are not a placement desk, nor are we merely introducers. We bring our own judgement, our own network, and, where conviction requires it, our own capital. Across every mandate, our value remains consistent: access, judgement, and execution.

His Highness Sheikh Dr. Ammar bin Nasser Al Mualla, Chairman
Chairman

His Highness Sheikh Dr.
Ammar bin Nasser Al Mualla

A senior Emirati public-sector figure with a distinguished record in educational diplomacy and international relations. Holding a doctorate in educational administration, he has represented the United Arab Emirates across the Arab world and beyond, building institutional partnerships at the highest levels of government. His standing and relationships anchor the firm's access across the region.

Mustafa Kheriba, Managing Partner
Managing Partner

Mustafa Kheriba

An investment leader with more than two decades across public markets, private equity, and cross-border advisory, including senior executive and listed-company board roles in the UAE and the United Kingdom, and a principal investment record spanning European private equity, GCC financial services, and UK real-estate credit.

The corridor

Two sides of one conversation.

Inbound
International
investors
Family offices, sponsors, and institutions reading the headlines on the UAE — and yet to find a credible hand on the ground.
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Destination
UAE
opportunity
Listed equity, real assets, structured finance, and the private deals that never reach the auction process.
Outbound
UAE
capital
Families, institutions, and operators looking for ideas, partners, and deals beyond the comfort of the corridor.
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Destination
Global
markets
Europe, the United Kingdom, and the markets where geography stops being an advantage and judgement becomes the asset.
Practices

Two lines
of work.

We focus narrowly so that we can act decisively. Our practices compound on each other — the same network, judgement, and execution applied at different stages of a capital decision.

i.

Capital introductions
& advisory

We connect international capital to UAE opportunity, and introduce UAE capital to selectively curated situations abroad. Principal-to-principal, built on trust rather than reach.

Family Offices Sponsor Coverage Co-Investment Strategic Capital
ii.

M&A advisory
& origination

We originate, structure, and execute mid-market transactions across the corridor — sell-side, buy-side, and the harder situations in between. Our principals have sat on both sides of listed-company restructurings and private acquisitions, and we work as principals' counsel, not as auction managers.

Sell-Side Buy-Side Restructuring Cross-Border
Principles

The best advisory is quiet. The best introductions are earned. The best deals are the ones our clients would have made on their own — only faster, cleaner, and on better terms.

i.

Principal-aligned

We work for a small number of clients at any one time, and we invest alongside them where it counts. Our incentives sit with theirs.

ii.

Regionally grounded

Our principals have spent careers building relationships across the GCC, Europe, and the UK. Those relationships are no substitute for judgement — but they are the precondition for access.

iii.

Discreet by design

The transactions we are proudest of are the ones you have never read about.

Get in touch

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you're working on.

Direct
info@capitalpartners.ae
Office
Dubai World Trade Centre
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
First conversations are always confidential and without obligation.