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Corporate & Commercial Law

Area of expertise includes Mergers & Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Governance and General Corporate Advisory.

Company Formation

Provides assistance and continued support throughout the processes surrounding New and Existing Company Formation within the UAE.

Contract & Compliance Law

We are here to make sure you are fully protected on both Local and International level.

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Staying ahead of disruptive change

Powerful forces such as globalisation and rapid technological change are disrupting traditional business models. By working with Transcont Legal, you'll better understand these forces and their impact. We can formulate solutions to keep you ahead of disruptive change.

We offer a full suite of services to address the biggest challenges businesses face across any sector or global market: sustaining and financing growth, managing risk and talent, optimising operations and protecting value.

Strategy & performance improvement

We deliver strategy development and performance improvement services at every stage of your growth journey.

Fnancial management

We can help you improve your financial processes and systems, and transform the finance function so you can focus on informing decision makers and enhance business understanding.

Productivity improvement

We deliver systematic improvements across people, processes and technology right through the supply chain.

Technology strategy & management

We engage, specify and deliver scalable solutions across the business, including finance, the supply chain, human resource functions and cyber security.

Human capital

We support businesses with the strategy part of the human capital challenge, from organisation design to training and managing cultural change.

Change and programme management

We deliver large-scale transformation programmes, such as ERP deployment and post-merger integration, and ensure that change is fully integrated and sustainable.

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Helping you focus on growth

As organisations grow, back office processes and meeting reporting requirements across multiple jurisdictions can become a distraction. We remove the burden of back office operations and worries about compliance to enable you to focus on growth.

With first-hand experience of local reporting requirements in over 100 locations worldwide, we provide a consistent international service through a single point of contact.

We are the leading adviser to dynamic organisations, providing a full consultancy and delivery service for organisations looking to improve their finance and accounting business processes.

Back office outsourcing

We provide outsourced accounting, payroll, HR and tax services to domestic SMEs or local branches of international organisations. If you face complex tax and payroll challenges, our tax, global mobility and wealth management specialists provide expert advice.

Global compliance partnering

Our global compliance partnering solution delivers all local statutory financial reporting, centralised statutory audits, tax compliance (corporate, sales and payroll), payroll administration and local country filings for multinational organisations through a single point of contact.

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Shared Service Centre (SSC)

Our BPO solution allows large organisations to fully outsource their finance and accounting processes. We also advise on optimising finance and accounting processes, including building a full-scale BPO delivery capability or setting up a SSC where this is our recommendation.

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Helping you balance risk and opportunity

The relationship between a company and its auditor has changed. Organisations must understand and manage risk and seek an appropriate balance between risk and opportunities.

Our full suite of services can help you strike that balance.

Internal audit

We assess corporate level risk, identify areas of greatest risk and develop appropriate work plans and audit programmes to mitigate these risks.

Sarbanes-Oxley consulting (SOX)

We streamline your efforts towards SOX compliance to improve your efficiency and effectiveness.

Enterprise risk management (ERM)

We can implement this leading approach to managing and optimising risk with a bespoke strategy for identifying, analysing and monitoring potential risk.

Cybersecurity

We will help you assess your security vulnerability, establish or improve your IT security processes and remediate breaches or compliance failures.

Anti-fraud services

We can deter and detect fraud or abusive activity, conduct forensic investigation, uncover evidence and support companies involved in existing or pending litigation.

Anti-bribery and anti-corruption

We can develop, implement and continuously monitor your compliance programmes.

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Management consultancies

Includes providing administrative consultancies and studies to organizations to help them improve their performance, through the analysis of existing organizational problems and the development of plans for improvement.

It involves procedural engineering, laying out flow-charts and related documents circulation, internal policy formulation, organizational restructuring, strategic plans development, innovating work procedures, designing balanced scorecards, such firms are not allowed to conduct field surveys and questionnaire before getting approval from the competent authority.

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Strategic growth decision making

Globalisation and company growth ambitions are driving an increase in M&A activity worldwide.

We work with entrepreneurial businesses in the mid-market to help them assess the true commercial potential of their planned acquisition and understand how the purchase might serve their longer- term strategic goals.

Through our highly experienced team, we offer seamless access to a full range of transactional and other advisory services to ensure you get maximum value from your deals. With market-leading teams in all key financial centres, we can advise wherever you are looking to acquire.

Buying a business

We work with you to identify the best target if you are looking to acquire a business.

Private equity advisory

We offer bespoke solutions, from initial investment through performance improvement and growth to exit, for private equity houses, private equity-backed companies and management teams seeking private equity investment.

Exit strategy services

We can project manage and implement the sale or closure of your underperforming or non-core corporate entities.

Performance improvement

We can help to improve your business processes, implement new business strategies, divest non-core businesses and design new capital structures.

Valuations

We will provide an independent view on value for you if you are considering a merger, acquisition or restructuring, or if you require support for a proposed financial structure.

Selling a business

We will achieve the highest possible value for your businesses.

Raising finance

We can help management teams, corporates and private shareholders raise private equity and/or debt finance.

Tax structuring

We can provide advice on the full tax implications of any deal and establishing effective tax structures, taking into account the personal tax planning needs of business owners.

Financial reporting

We will consolidate newly acquired businesses into group accounts (including breaking out recognisable intangible assets from goodwill).

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Helping you with successful growth deals throughout your business life cycle

Transactions are significant events in the life of a business, so the stakes are high for both buyers and sellers.

It requires experience, determination and pragmatism to bring deals safely through to conclusion. This is what our dedicated team of transaction specialists delivers.

If you're a business owner or part of a management team, we can help you prepare for and execute your transactions. With our extensive global network we can advise on the most international of deals, but always remain focused on ensuring you get the senior attention you deserve.

Exit readiness

We work with you to enhance business value through operational improvements 12– 18 months before a disposal to present the business ready for sale.

Vendor assist

We work with sellers to anticipate and explain any areas on which prospective purchasers may require comfort, thereby helping protect shareholder value.

Bid support

We deliver bid support services throughout the acquisition process and are committed to supporting you at every stage.

Vendor due diligence

Our approach to vendor due diligence balances the vendor’s desire to protect shareholder value, with the need for a robust and independent report to be used by the purchaser and their funders.

Separation and integration

We prepare businesses for sale by separating them from existing operations, and integrate newly acquired businesses, cutting out duplicate operations to release value.

Financial modelling

We build integrated models for pricing and structuring deals, and quantify returns, risks and sensitivities to provide a clear point of view to help you make better decisions.

Transaction tax

We provide practical and pragmatic advice on tax that complements your commercial objectives.

Financial due diligence

We help you make wise investment decisions, providing financial due diligence that is clearly linked to your requirements as purchasers, and also suitable for your funders.

Commercial due diligence

We deliver thoughtful, robust advice based on primary and secondary research combined with quantitative analyses, focusing on the key issues that impact value.

Operational & IT due diligence

We provide specialist operational and technology advice to help a range of organisations in the public and private sectors achieve their deal goals.

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Robust and commercial valuation advice

For organisations involved in a transaction or a dispute, or embarking on restructuring, the value of the business involved and its assets is always an important commercial consideration.

Our valuation specialists blend technical expertise with a pragmatic outlook to deliver support during transactions, restructuring and disputes.

We also provide robust commercial independent advice on regulatory and administrative matters – valuing businesses, listed and unlisted securities, complex financial instruments and tangible and intangible assets.

With market-leading teams in all the key financial centres, we are perfectly positioned to advise you on complex, cross-border valuations.

Bid support

We deliver bid support services throughout the acquisition process and are committed to adding value at every stage.

Transactions

An independent view on value for mergers, acquisitions, restructuring and proposed financial structures.

Tax

Third-party valuations to enable directors to meet their fiduciary duties and to support proposed tax treatments.

Share option schemes

Schemes for employees and directors, with specialist advice on structuring and valuing such schemes.

Fund administration

We provide third-party valuations for investment funds to support periodic reporting of net asset values or to enable the transfer of assets.

Financial reporting

We get valuations to help consolidate newly acquired businesses into group accounts, including breaking out recognisable intangible assets from goodwill.

Valuations to support asset-backed lending decisions

We provide valuations to support asset-backed financing, including valuing shares and intangible assets, and providing periodic valuations of assets to confirm that the terms of the loan agreement are being met.

Dispute resolution

We offer valuation support for breach of contract, intellectual property disputes, negligence, lost opportunity, matrimonial disputes or where an expert determination is required. We act as independent experts in courts or at arbitration tribunals.

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Transcont assists businesses in complying with these regulations and acts as adviser for companies to ensure their activities, policies and procedures follow the guidelines specified by respective regulations.

Our compliance teams offer specialist solutions in the following areas:

• Company Incorporation (DIFC / ADGM / UAE Central Bank / ESCA / Other Free Zones)
• Compliance & AML Outsourcing (DIFC / ADGM / UAE Main Land)
• Risk Management Outsourcing
• Corporate Governance & Family Governance Advisory
• Review of risk management framework ( which includes Basel II, Basel III, MiFiD)
• AML Audit
• Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) Advisory
• GIPS (Global Investment Performance Standards) Advisory
• DMCC Responsible Sourcing Review

Our professionals have extensive experience in the provision of regulatory and compliance advisory services. We utilize our broad and thorough knowledge of the UAE commercial rules and regulations to provide effective and efficient advice to our clients on a wide range of matters. Our team is also extensively experienced with rules and regulations of DFSA, ADGM, DMCC and other Free zones within UAE.

We have Compliance & Anti-money laundering (AML) knowledge and experience within financial services companies and can advise on how regulatory requirements and updates should be implemented in your firm.

Our Compliance team professional are well-versed with the international regulatory requirements such as FATCA, CRS, Basel Accords, etc. and have assisted the banks and other financial institutions in successful implementation of these regulations.

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Transcont holds a proven track-record in Regulatory Compliance advisory, our range of services will facilitate robust guidance to help you manage your regulatory risks and affairs, our teams of specialists assist our clients in the following areas:

• Helping you understand the requirements of a new regulation/ standard issued by the regulator, as well as the commercial, organisational and legal implications of implementing these requirements;
• Designing and implementing appropriate solutions to adequately respond to the regulatory requirement

Supervisory Examination Readiness Support

• Our team can help you prepare for your supervisory examination by conducting independent compliance monitoring and testing

Regulatory Reporting

• Advisory services around your regulatory reporting requirements
• Support you in preparing recurring and one-off regulatory reporting requirements (i.e ICAAP, ILAAP and Regulatory Gap Assessment reports)

Regulatory Remediation

• Developing remediation plans which aim to provide assistance to the head of the regulatory function in addressing all regulatory findings.

Compliance Training & Development

• Developing and providing comprehensive training programs covering all areas required to perform and sustain effective regulatory duties within the organization.

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