How I work
Four ways to work together.
Clear engagement models – advisory, mandate, co-investment and placing IP – so you know what to expect before the first call.
Engagement models
Advisory
Strategic and M&A advice on a defined scope, for owners, founders and boards.
- Transaction strategy and readiness
- Australia–GCC perspective
- A senior sounding board
Mandate
A buy-side or sell-side mandate to identify, approach and negotiate with the right counterparts.
- Sale, acquisition, merger or joint venture
- Counterpart search in Australia and the GCC
- Carried through to completion
Co-investment
Where appropriate, investing alongside partners in early-stage technology companies.
- Only through appropriately licensed parties
- Subject to due diligence and applicable law
- Not an offer to the public
Placing IP
Finding the licensee, partner, buyer or investor that fits a technology or IP.
- Where the IP creates value
- Right-fit partners and licensees
- Introductions under confidentiality
Nothing here is an offer to invest or financial advice; any investment activity takes place only through appropriately licensed parties.
Fit
Who I work with.
A good fit
- Owners and boards considering a sale, merger, acquisition or joint venture across Australia and the GCC
- Technology and IP owners looking for a licensee, partner, buyer or investor
- Australian and international businesses entering the UAE, Qatar or Saudi Arabia
- Family offices, funds and strategic investors seeking a counterpart with deal experience in the corridor
- Teams ready to share information in confidence
Not a fit
- Requests for personal investment advice or financial products
- Retail investors looking for an investment opportunity
- Ideas without a team, technology or IP to place yet
- Anyone expecting a guaranteed return or outcome
- Work that cannot pass standard due diligence and compliance checks
Process
A disciplined, four-stage process.
Assess
Understand the business, technology or IP: what it is, who it matters to, and what it needs next.
Fit
Identify right-fit buyers, partners or investors – in Australia, the GCC and beyond.
Structure
Shape the transaction, joint venture or licence so that every party can say yes.
Close and commercialise
Carry the deal through to completion, and the asset into market.
Next step
Start with a short conversation.
Trust and transparency
Full trust and credentials page →Where the ventures are
- OceanMerge® – IFZA, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai
- OceanBlocks – Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)
- Stacked Up – We Are Stacked Up Pty Ltd, Australia
Credentials
- RMIT MBA (International Business), with Distinction
- RMIT Master of Blockchain Enabled Business, with Distinction
- HBS Online, Sustainable Business Strategy (2022)
- Director, EIBC Ltd, 2018–2021
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- Enquiries are read by Ryan Babbage
- Based in the UAE