Post-Acquisition Recovery & Restructuring

Handle executes post-acquisition recovery and restructuring for boards, sponsors, and family capital when acquired assets fail to perform. We move from diagnosis to enforcement to restructuring under one mandate; controlling counterparties, jurisdictions, and capital exposure.

From covenant breaches and integration breakdowns to distressed subsidiaries and misaligned management, we reassert control through law, capital, and structure. One statement of work. One recovery thesis. Execution to stabilise, restructure, and return the asset to disciplined performance.

Underperforming acquisitions are not portfolio statistics; they are governance tests. Handle enters at the point of stress and restores control across contracts, capital, and management, with a clear recovery horizon.

We integrate legal enforcement, capital restructuring, and operational reset into one execution model. The mandate is unambiguous: protect downside, recover trapped value, and return the platform to controlled, board-level performance.

• Deep experience in UAE and GCC post-deal stress, disputes, and restructurings
• Evidence-led review of SPA protections, financing documents, and governance instruments
• Integrated pathway from negotiation to litigation, arbitration, or settlement where needed
• Capital structure engineering aligned to lender, sponsor, and family expectations
• Ability to operate inside the institution: boards, credit committees, and regulators
• Focused on measurable outcomes: control restored, value recovered, risk ring-fenced

We structure and execute comprehensive post-acquisition recovery programs that move beyond analysis into enforceable action. Every step is tied to clear value, risk, and control metrics.

From contract enforcement and dispute strategy to capital restructuring and governance reset, we convert post-deal stress into a defined, time-bound recovery trajectory.

• Rapid diagnostic of acquisition thesis, performance gap, and legal-financial exposures
• Review and enforcement of SPA protections, warranties, indemnities, and earn-out mechanics
• Stakeholder and counterparty mapping: sellers, lenders, minority shareholders, and management
• Dispute and enforcement pathways including UAE courts, DIFC, ADGM, and arbitration forums
• Capital and debt restructuring: refinancing, waivers, amendments, and covenant realignment
• Group structure and governance redesign to ring-fence value and enforce accountability