Due Diligence Matters – May 2025
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Middle East Investors Don’t Care About Operational Due Diligence…. (Until now!)
If you’d said that in 2019, we wouldn’t have argued. At the time, the investment ecosystem in the region, particularly in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain was still in its formative stages. Strategy and returns took centre stage, and operational due diligence was, at best, a nice-to-have. Most Allocators weren’t asking tough ODD questions, and most investment managers weren’t prepared to answer them.
Fast forward to today, and the shift has been dramatic. The tide started turning when the region’s heavyweight sovereign wealth funds, PIF and various members of Abu Dhabi’s investment landscape, expanded and built world-class ODD teams. These are real, institutional-quality functions, led by experienced practitioners, and they’ve quietly set a new benchmark. Family offices and local Allocators are taking notice. What was once ignored is now being mimicked.
This shift is accelerating. As regional investment managers try to differentiate themselves in an increasingly crowded and fast-moving space, the ability to pass a rigorous institutional ODD review is no longer a bonus, it’s the minimum. US, European, and Asian Allocators are arriving quickly, and they’re not lowering their ODD standards for the region. Understandably, they expect local investment managers to be as operationally sound as they are globally.
The financial ecosystem in the Gulf Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (“GCC”) is mirroring the broader regional transformation – rapid, deliberate, and unapologetically ambitious. What took the US and Europe decades to build from an ODD perspective is being compressed into five years. The momentum is real. The bar is rising. And it’s not slowing down.
“Operational due diligence has become a prerequisite for all fund investments in GCC managers, with a comprehensive ODD report required to be presented to the investment committee prior to any capital commitment.” – Local Allocator.
ODD Report Solution
Our ODD Report Solution is not just another tick in a box, it is a fast growing innovative approach to operational due diligence. A pragmatic solution for Investment Managers and Service Providers which engage us to complete an ODD review.
Investment Manager: GrandLine Investment Management Ltd – please contact here to request access to our March 2025 dated ODD Report
Investment Manager: Spectra Capital, LLC – please contact here to request access to our March 2025 dated ODD Report
Investment Manager: Gemcorp Capital Management Limited – please contact here to request access to our two ODD Reports
Investment Manager: Hivemind Capital Partners UK LLP – please contact here to request access to our January 2025 dated ODD Report
Investment Manager: 24 Capital Management Ltd – please contact here to request access to our December 2024 dated ODD Report
Investment Manager: MARK Capital Management LP – please contact here to request access to our December 2024 dated ODD Report
Investment Manager: Edge Capital Investment Management, LLC – please contact here to request access to our September 2024 dated ODD Report
Investment Manager: Redhedge Asset Management, LLP – please contact here to request access to our September 2024 dated ODD Report
Investment Manager: Fasanara Capital Limited – please contact here to request access to our July 2024 dated ODD Report
Investment Manager: Eltican Asset Management SAS – please contact here to request access to our July 2024 dated ODD Report
Digital Asset Service Provider: Copper Technologies (Switzerland) AG – please contact here to request access to our April 2024 dated ODD Report. UNDERGOING ANNUAL RENEWAL PROCESS
Investment Manager: Hyperion Decimus, LLC – please contact here to request access to our March 2024 dated ODD Report. UNDERGOING ANNUAL RENEWAL PROCESS
Investment Manager: Coral Cove Capital Ltd – please contact here to request access to our January 2024 dated ODD Report
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