Corporate Finance Advisory: Strategic Capital and Transaction Services for Global Enterprises
Sphere Private delivers discreet, relationship-driven corporate finance advice to businesses and shareholders, focusing on helping clients raise capital, execute transactions, and achieve their strategic and financial objectives with integrity and precision. We act as trusted advisers to founders, investors, and management teams.
As an independent advisory firm, we are free from institutional conflicts and entirely aligned with our clients’ interests, valuing long-term relationships built on discretion, trust, and results. Our experienced team works with clients globally across multiple regions, including Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, to provide solutions and tackle complexities unique to them.
Core Services
We advise clients across two primary areas: Capital Raising and Transaction Services, ensuring a partner-led approach where every engagement benefits from senior attention and practical insight.
We advise on and arrange:
We guide corporate clients through every stage of the process—from preparation and investor engagement to completion and negotiation—to ensure transactions are executed efficiently.
Our transaction experience includes:
Our Partnership Approach
While our Private Wealth Solutions focus on life insurance-based wealth structuring for UHNWIs, our Corporate Finance Advisory acts as a distinct, specialized arm dedicated entirely to corporate transactions and financing. We ensure advice is objective, discreet, and strategically aligned with your long-term objectives, whether we are supporting a multi-generational enterprise or a corporate group.
Leveraging Senior Expertise:
Our partner-led model ensures that senior expertise, such as the insights from the General Counsel and Head of Compliance, who specializes in corporate and commercial transactions and regulatory compliance, is applied to complex, high-stakes disputes and strategic advisory.
Global Focus in Corporate Finance
Sphere Private is a distinguished provider of corporate finance advisory services, offering sophisticated and partner-led solutions to enterprises worldwide. Our unique position as an independent corporate finance boutique ensures objective and conflict-free advice across the entire transaction lifecycle. We specialize in complex strategic mandates, from equity capital markets advisory to bespoke corporate finance debt advisory UAE solutions. Our expertise is focused on guiding founders, investors, and management teams through critical junctures, including corporate finance M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions), divestitures, and capital restructuring. As leading international corporate finance advisors, we leverage a deep understanding of local markets combined with global reach. We are strategically located in key financial hubs to support cross-border complexities efficiently. Our primary offices and advisory centers include Dubai, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, and Singapore. Whether you seek Finance Advisory for growth capital, need expert counsel on intricate transaction structures, or require comprehensive corporate finance consulting, Sphere Private delivers senior expertise and unparalleled dedication. Our model is built on partnership, ensuring that every client benefits from direct, high-level attention from start to finish. We are committed to achieving your strategic and financial objectives with integrity and precision in every city we operate in.
We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients—shoulder to shoulder.
Contact Our Corporate Finance Team
Achieve your strategic and financial objectives with precision. We invite founders, investors, and management teams to contact us for a confidential discussion regarding your capital strategy or transaction requirements.
Salah Mattoo is an experienced international lawyer and accomplished executive, currently serving as General Counsel and Head of Compliance. He specialises in dispute resolution, corporate and commercial transactions, regulatory compliance, and internal and external investigations across multiple jurisdictions.
Salah has acted in a range of high-profile international arbitration and cross-border litigation matters, representing corporate clients, sovereigns, and institutions in complex, high-stakes disputes. Salah's background includes advisory and leadership roles in sectors such as insurance, private equity, financial services, defence, commodities, energy, technology, and infrastructure.
In addition to his disputes practice, Salah has led the design and implementation of robust compliance programs aligned with international best practices, including AML, anti-bribery, sanctions, data privacy, ESG, and whistleblower frameworks. Salah regularly advises executive teams and boards on legal risk management, governance structures, and regulatory strategy.
With a strong track record in both contentious and transactional matters, Salah combines legal precision with strategic insight to support businesses navigating regulatory complexity and international growth. Salah is qualified in England & Wales, DIFC and ADGM. He has acted as lead counsel in international commercial courts, as well as in many international arbitrations seated in the leading arbitration centers, including Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Riyadh, Singapore, Stockholm, Tokyo, Vienna, Washington and Zurich.
Salah holds a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley and an L.L.B and L.L.M. from The London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Dubai · Geneva · Hong Kong · London · Singapore
Imran Khan is a seasoned expert in private wealth planning and jumbo life insurance solutions, with over 10 years of experience advising ultra high net worth individuals (UHNWIs), families, and family offices across multiple jurisdictions. With a deep understanding of global wealth structuring, legacy planning, and asset protection, Imran is recognized for delivering highly customized strategies that align with clients personal, business, and multigenerational goals.
Throughout his career, Imran has worked closely with private banks, trust companies, and legal advisors to design and implement sophisticated structures involving international trusts, foundations, holding companies, and life insurance-based estate equalization plans. His expertise includes:
Imran holds specialist accreditations in wealth planning and international insurance advisory and is a trusted advisor to clients across the Asia, Europe, Middle East and UK. Known for discretion, technical proficiency, and strategic insight, he has built enduring relationships with UHNW families seeking to preserve and grow their legacies in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
Dubai · Geneva · Hong Kong · London · Singapore