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Welcome to the website of the Essdar group of companies (“Essdar”), designed to provide you with general information regarding our history, our profile and the products and services that we offer.

Essdar was established by some of the largest and most reputed wealth funds and institutional investors in the GCC region with substantial global investments .

 
 
 
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Essdar combines the strengths of its management with substantial senior international experience and local expertise  and its global and regional network to focus on its core competencies in:

- Asset Management,
- Sovereign Advisory (privatization, bond issues, setting up debt management offices, country risk issues),
- Mergers, takeovers and acquisition advisory (buy-side & sell-side) including complex restructurings,
- Structuring and Arranging financings through private placement with conventional or Shari’a-compliant investors,
- Syndication of private equity stakes in select strategic transactions,
- Placements of significant minority stakes in listed equities, utilizing Essdar’s knowledge of key players the region,
- Independent advice to bond issuers & credit rating advisory,
- Asset-backed monetization (IFRS/ FASB off balance sheet treatment) and
- Project finance advisory.

Essdar’s independent advisory practice is solutions-driven, providing fair and unbiased advice to our clients that is balanced in its product approach. Essdar’s targeted industries include:

- Sovereign Finance
- Infrastructure & transportation (power, roads, telecom, railways, airlines, shipping, etc.)
- Consumer Finance
- Healthcare, education & hospitality
- Real Estate (townships, multi-family residential, commercial & retail space)
- Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals

Through active advisory, innovative solutions and a powerful value creation model, Essdar’s team has quickly established a stellar reputation in the Gulf and beyond.

Essdar Group operates through its two main subsidiaries in the Dubai International Financial Centre:

 
 
Essdar Capital Limited

Arranging and Financial Advisory: Essdar Capital Limited is a specialist financial institution regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority. With a highly qualified and internationally experienced team, Essdar Capital Limited brings innovative financial solutions to its clients and has earned global recognition for a unique philosophy suited to the needs of the Emerging Markets.

 
   
Essdar Capital Managers Limited

Fund Management: Essdar Capital Managers Limited is a specialist fund manager regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority. It manages funds from third party professional investors alongside proprietary funds, leveraging the team’s superior assessment of risks and opportunities of investments in cash-flow backed assets as well as our extensive knowledge and experience of both global and local aspects of law, commerce and markets.

Once again welcome to our website.

Mohamad Sotoudeh
CEO

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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