A consulting firm for considered operators.
Fundtec is built around a single working principle. Compliance should be the outcome of good advisory work, not a substitute for it. The firm advises UAE operating businesses, asset managers, and fund managers on the operational and financial infrastructure required to scale.
A different model for the UAE consulting market.
The UAE consulting market typically sells two things to asset managers, fund managers, and operating businesses: process and packages. Fixed-price incorporations, monthly bookkeeping retainers, tax filing services, visa stamping. The work is real and necessary; but the relationship is transactional, the advice is thin, and the firm's interest in your business stops at the next renewal.
We're built around what is missing. The structuring conversation before the incorporation. The second opinion on the engagement letter. The quiet review of an administrator's NAV before it's final. The judgment call about whether a Qualifying Free Zone Person election still makes sense given how the business has evolved.
That's consulting. The compliance work that follows from it — bookkeeping, returns, applications, filings — happens because it is what the advice required, not because it is what the monthly retainer paid for.
Six things we refuse to compromise on.
Selective by intention
We don't take on more clients than we can serve well. If we are quoting you, it means we have the bandwidth to do the work properly.
No referral fees, ever
From free zones, software vendors, banks, administrators, custodians, or any service provider we recommend. The advice is unconflicted by design.
Senior involvement always
The person who scopes your engagement is the one who reviews the work. There are no quiet handoffs to people you haven't met.
Plain English where possible
Memos written so you can read them. Acronyms spelled out. Trade-offs disclosed openly, not hidden behind technical language.
Fixed scope, fixed pricing
Engagement letters with defined deliverables and predictable costs. No surprise add-ons. No out-of-scope invoicing without prior agreement.
Long engagements over fast wins
We measure ourselves on multi-year client retention, not first-year sales. That's the only metric that genuinely tracks quality of work.
Same standard, two audiences.
Fundtec runs two consulting practices from one office in Dubai. The client profiles differ; the standard of engagement does not.
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For operating businesses
Founders, family-owned businesses, holding companies, and international groups establishing themselves in the UAE. Consulting on incorporation and structure, accounting and fractional CFO support, corporate tax and VAT, and visas. Senior advisory delivered to SMEs, growth-stage companies, and mid-market clients who would otherwise be served by commodity setup providers.
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For asset managers and fund managers
UAE-based asset managers, fund managers, and family offices requiring institutional-grade CFO, COO, OMS and PMS, and middle-and-back-office consulting; without the cost base of full in-house staffing. Buyers are sophisticated; engagements are technically dense; the work supports ODD, regulator scrutiny, and investor confidence.
Better assessed in conversation than in copy.
The principals of the firm are introduced on the discovery call. The work itself, rather than the partners' biographies, is the better signal of how an engagement will run, and the discovery call is the most efficient way for both sides to assess fit.
That is what the discovery call is for. Bring the actual problem you are working on. Fundtec will respond to it directly; not with a brochure, not with a slide deck, not with a standard capability statement. By the end of the call, both sides will know whether the engagement should proceed.
If the answer is yes, you will meet the partner who will be responsible for the file. If the answer is no, the firm will say so directly; and where possible, recommend a peer who is a better fit.
Begin a conversation.
A discovery call precedes every engagement. It is the most efficient way for both sides to assess whether Fundtec is the right firm for your situation.