Integrated strategy and corporate development support that coordinates deals, investments, and long term value building.
Strategy and Corporate Development
Strategy and Corporate Development: Integrated Support for Long Term Value Creation
Handle provides coordinated strategy and corporate development services that unify planning, investment decisions, and organisational growth. We support leadership through evaluation, modelling, and prioritisation.
Our frameworks enable disciplined decision making, ensuring that deals, investments, and strategic initiatives contribute directly to long term organisational value.
Our Strategy and Corporate Development Services: Integrated Growth and Deal Support
Handle supports strategy and corporate development functions as they plan, evaluate, and deliver growth initiatives and transactions. We connect long term strategy with day to day deal and investment decisions.
Strategy and CD Operating Model
Design of roles, processes, and governance for the function.
Deal Pipeline Management
Setup and management of pipeline processes and reporting.
Strategic Investment Evaluation
Support for evaluation of investments, ventures, and acquisitions.
Portfolio and Exit Strategy Planning
Review of portfolio, exits, and recycling of capital into new opportunities.
Why Work with a Strategy and Corporate Development Expert
Strategy and corporate development must operate as a single, integrated function to create lasting value. Handle supports this integration, aligning planning, deal flow, and portfolio decisions.
We help organisations use corporate development as a disciplined tool to execute strategy, not a separate activity.
- Design of operating models for strategy and corporate development
- Alignment of strategic priorities with deal and investment pipelines
- Frameworks for target evaluation and portfolio shaping
- Governance structures for approving and overseeing transactions
- Integration of post deal performance into strategic reviews
- Reporting that gives boards a clear view of value creation
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Why Choose Us to Handle Your Strategy and Corporate Development Mandate
Corporate development requires a unified view of strategy, deals, and execution. We build corporate development systems that integrate opportunity sourcing, evaluation, and implementation.
Handle ensures development decisions support long term strategic direction.
Talk to a PartnerCorporate Development Frameworks
Designing the structure, workflow, and governance of the CD function.
Opportunity Sourcing and Screening
Identifying and qualifying opportunities with discipline.
Deal and Investment Evaluation
Evaluating commercial, financial, and strategic alignment.
Execution and Integration Pathways
Connecting deals to operating models and performance.
Anchored in the Region’s Most Strategic Hubs
We work across the UAE’s leading financial centers, free zones, regulatory authorities, and courts; giving our clients certainty in both capital and law.
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What's Included in Our Strategy & Corporate Development Services
We build corporate development systems that connect sourcing, evaluation, and integration with enterprise strategy. Our work strengthens the discipline behind growth and portfolio shaping.
Handle aligns development activity with governance, performance, and long term value creation.
- Design of corporate development operating and governance models
- Opportunity sourcing, tracking, and pipeline structuring
- Deal evaluation frameworks across commercial, financial, and strategic fit
- Integration of CD with strategy, finance, and business units
- Pre integration planning and synergy hypothesis support
- Performance tracking for deals post close
“Before offering your business for M&A, you must raise it with discipline. Strengthen governance, restore financial clarity, and sharpen strategy. A parented business attracts investors with confidence, not discounts.”
Mohamed abu El-MakaremManaging Partner & Chairman
“Good litigation is disciplined project management. Clear filings, clean evidence, and a hearing plan that your board understands. That is how outcomes travel from courtroom to cash.”
Hamda Al FalasiPartner, Law & Arbitration
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Frequently Asked Strategy and Corporate Development Questions
Handle integrates strategy and corporate development into one execution engine; aligning portfolio decisions, deal flow, and integration with the organisation’s long term direction.
What is meant by strategy and corporate development together
Strategy and corporate development together cover setting direction and executing transactions or initiatives that reshape the portfolio.
What does a strategy and corporate development function do
It defines strategic priorities, sources and evaluates opportunities, supports deals, and coordinates integration or divestment.
Why combine strategy and corporate development in one function
Combining them ensures that deals and major initiatives directly support the strategic plan rather than occurring in isolation.
How does this function support the board and CEO
It provides structured analysis, options, and recommendations on where to invest, acquire, divest, or reshape the portfolio.
How is it different from an M&A team alone
M&A teams often focus on transactions, while strategy and corporate development manage both strategic context and post deal value creation.
What skills are needed in strategy and corporate development teams
Skills include financial analysis, market assessment, negotiation, integration planning, and stakeholder management.
How do we measure the effectiveness of this function
Effectiveness is measured through deal quality, portfolio performance, and delivery of strategic milestones.
How should strategy and corporate development interact with business units
They should collaborate, with business units providing insight and ownership, and the central team providing structure and governance.
Can the function handle both acquisitions and divestitures
Yes, it should manage both entry and exit decisions as part of portfolio optimisation.
How does Handle support strategy and corporate development
Handle helps design operating models, decision frameworks, and deal processes that connect strategy, transactions, and integration.
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