Scale Your M&A Advisory Firm in Dubai — Backed by James Caan CBE's Family Office
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If your dream is to build and scale your own M&A Advisory practice, you’ve landed in the right place. The Opportunity Hamilton Bradshaw is the private family office of James Caan CBE, one of the UK's most recognised entrepreneurs and a former Dragons' Den investor.
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Overview
If your dream is to build and scale your own M&A Advisory practice, you’ve landed in the right place.
The Opportunity
Hamilton Bradshaw is the private family office of James Caan CBE, one of the UK's most recognised entrepreneurs and a former Dragons' Den investor.
We partner with established M&A and corporate finance founders to scale their advisory platforms across the GCC.
This is a partnership between founders and a strategic investor.
It is not a job opening.
You've already proven you can win mandates and deliver outcomes.
You have the deal expertise, market knowledge, network and ambition to go further.
We bring the investment, infrastructure, and three decades of experience scaling people-led professional services firms into market leaders.
Together we take what you've built and grow it into something significant.
We've been doing exactly this with founders like you for 30 years.
Why Partner With Us
Proven backer
— partner with a strategic investor that has launched, scaled, and exited dozens of professional services businesses to international standards, with 20+ exits globally.
Real capital and infrastructure
— investment, brand, back-office, and introductions that let you scale faster than you could fund or build alone.
Deep operating expertise
— leadership and commercial guidance from people who have built high-growth advisory and recruitment businesses internationally.
The right market
— the UAE and wider GCC are seeing unprecedented deal activity: founder exits, inbound investment, consolidation, and cross-border flow.
A path to exit
— partner with a team that knows how to take a firm from founder-led to acquirable, and has done it more than 20 times.
Who We're Looking For
- Dubai-based founders (applications from outside the UAE will not be considered)
- An established advisory firm, corporate finance boutique, or proven track record as a founder — with real mandates and revenue to point to
- 10+ years across one or more of:
- M&A
- Corporate finance
- Deal advisory
- Transaction services
- Private equity advisory
- Capital raising
- Strategic growth advisory
- Financial due diligence
- Debt advisory
- Family office advisory
- A proven ability to originate mandates and advise senior decision-makers
- Strong relationships across founders, family offices, investors, corporates, and financial institutions
- A clear, commercial vision for taking your firm to the next stage — and the leadership to build a high-performing team around it
- Genuinely entrepreneurial — you've built something, and you're ready to scale it beyond what you can achieve on your own
What You Could Build
- Whether you're already focused on a niche or building out new service lines, the demand spans:
- Buy-side and sell-side M&A advisory
- Capital raising and investor readiness
- Strategic partnerships and joint ventures
- Founder succession and exit planning
- Cross-border transaction advisory
- Debt and restructuring advisory
- Growth strategy and commercial advisory
- Family office and private capital advisory
How to Apply
- Submit a short pitch covering:
- Your firm today — background, transaction track record, and traction to date
- Target sectors, clients, and geographic focus
- Your advisory model and commercial strategy
- A 12–36 month growth roadmap and the support you'd want from HB MENA
- Please note: this is a services-led partnership.
- We are not seeking product-led or technology-only businesses; our focus is high-value professional services platforms where growth is driven by expertise, relationships, and human capital.
- If you're ready to scale a market-leading M&A advisory platform in the GCC, we'd like to hear from you.
- Strong applicants will be invited to an initial conversation with the Hamilton Bradshaw team.
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