Shareholder & Term Sheet Advisory

Handle structures shareholder arrangements and term sheets for founders, families, and private capital where control, upside, and downside protection must be engineered before signatures. We design the cap table, the covenants, and the enforcement pathways so that governance, exits, and disputes are already accounted for in the first page of the deal.

From seed to late-stage, from minority protection to control transactions, we align term sheets, shareholder agreements, and corporate structure with UAE jurisdiction, regulatory clarity, and enforceability. No ambiguity. No accidental control shifts. Capital deployed on terms you can govern and enforce.

Once signed, a weak term sheet or shareholder structure hardcodes misalignment into your business. Handle removes ambiguity at the point of commitment, aligning governance, economics, and enforcement under UAE law and international capital expectations.

We act for founders, families, and investors where the risk is not paper, but control: who leads, who blocks, who exits, and on what terms. The output is simple – capital in, control defined, enforcement clear.

• Deep UAE corporate, free zone, and offshore structuring fluency
• Execution aligned with GCC and international investor standards
• Integrated perspective across founders, families, and financial sponsors
• Disciplined rights engineering – control, consent, and veto regimes
• Clear exit, liquidity, and buy-back mechanics drafted from day one
• Term sheets built for later-stage diligences, not renegotiation under pressure

We structure, negotiate, and document shareholder and term sheet arrangements so that control, economics, and enforcement are clear before capital moves. Every mandate is engineered for governance certainty and dispute resilience.

Founders, families, and investors gain a single point of accountability across legal drafting, capital terms, and corporate structure under UAE and connected jurisdictions.

• Term sheet design, redrafting, and negotiation strategy for all deal stages
• Shareholder agreements, investment agreements, and side letters aligned in one framework
• Cap table modelling, share class design, and economic waterfall analysis
• Control, consent, and veto frameworks – boards, reserved matters, and committees
• Protection terms – anti-dilution, pre-emption, drag/tag, ROFR/ROFO, lock-ups
• Exit and liquidity pathways – secondary sales, buy-backs, put/call options, and IPO triggers
• Alignment with regulatory regimes across mainland, DIFC, ADGM, and offshore structures