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Capital & financial modelling
Integrated models for projects and operating companies: unit economics, CAPEX/OPEX, funding waterfalls, IRR/NPV, and scenario trees that survive a serious investor review.
Private counsel · Structured capital · Applied AI
Judgement for decisions that compound.
Abbes & Associates advises founders, operators and investors on financial structure, capital strategy and cross-border execution — with models and intelligence systems built for real operating conditions, not slide-deck theory.
The firm
A compact advisory for complex capital questions.
Abbes & Associates is a boutique financial consulting practice. We sit with management teams and investors when the numbers, the jurisdiction and the operating reality must be reconciled — fundraising, joint ventures, grant strategy, entity design, and the models that decide whether a project is financeable.
The practice is deliberately small. Work is accepted by mandate, not by volume. Every engagement combines classical financial analysis with purpose-built AI tooling: scenario engines, document intelligence, and decision memos that a board can actually use.
The founding perspective is operator-side. Years of building and financing real assets — including aquaculture technology ventures across Korea, the UAE and the wider GCC — inform how we stress-test assumptions, structure counterparties, and keep models honest.
Services
Four lines of work. One standard of care.
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Cross-border structure
Practical counsel on entity, intercompany and cash-routing design across UAE/ADGM, GCC and Asian parent structures — including VAT, treaty and documentation implications.
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Investor & grant materials
Investment memos, data-room architecture, grant narratives and consortium papers written so technical reality and financial claim stay aligned.
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AI decision systems
Bespoke tooling: document extraction, live scenario dashboards, diligence checklists and monitoring layers that keep a mandate current after the first report is delivered.
Method
Human accountability. Machine leverage.
01 — Scope
Define the decision
We isolate the actual question the board or founder must answer, and the constraints that make other answers expensive.
02 — Evidence
Assemble the facts
Source documents, operating data and market inputs are structured so assumptions are visible, not buried in a spreadsheet tab.
03 — Model
Stress the numbers
Base, downside and break cases are built and challenged. AI accelerates iteration; partners own the judgement.
04 — Advise
Write the path
A concise memo, a usable model, and a next-action sequence. No theatre. No orphaned files.
Principles
How the work is held.
Independence
We do not sell products, raise funds for a house book, or take success fees that distort the advice.
Confidentiality
Mandates are private. Materials stay inside the engagement unless you instruct otherwise.
Operator literacy
Models that ignore how an asset is actually run are rejected before they reach a client.
Proportion
The work is sized to the decision. A seed-stage question does not receive a bank-syndicate process.
Contact
Begin with a short brief.
Share the decision in front of you, the jurisdiction, and the timing. If the mandate is a fit, we will propose a scoped conversation. If it is not, we will say so promptly.
Abu Dhabi · Tunis · by appointment internationally
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