Family Business Advisory · Dubai · International

When the family isn’t aligned, the business pays for it.

We help business families align, modernise and secure the business for the next generation. Dubai-based. Working internationally.

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Does this sound like your family business?

The family isn’t aligned.

Family meetings don’t happen, or go nowhere.

No one is clear on who is responsible for what.

Everything still depends on the founder.

The legal and tax structure was never designed for where you are now.

Work still runs on paper, phone calls and memory. No systems, no automation.

The next generation isn’t ready, and no one is preparing them.

You want to secure the family’s future, but don’t know where to start.

You are not alone. These are the situations I know best.

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Omar Abdelrazak, Founder and CEO of Originate Advisory.

I am part of a family business too.

For more than five years I have worked inside my family’s business group: as Chief Operating Officer, and today leading its strategy, governance and professionalisation across several countries.

I know what it is like when the family is not aligned, when roles are unclear, when everything waits for one person, and when the structure that got you here cannot take you further. I also know it can be fixed, without losing what the founders built.

I started Originate to help other families do the same: align the family, modernise the business and secure its future for the next generation.

Omar Abdelrazak, Founder

To confirm: personal framing to be public (brief 6.3)

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When the structure doesn’t fit the ambition, growth stalls.

Companies held personally across countries. Legal and tax arrangements that block banking, investment or succession. We fix the structure so the business can grow and the family is protected.

How we help.

Family Business Advisory & Transformation

Family alignment, the next generation, governance, legal and tax structure, technology and automation. One adviser leading it all, with the right specialists.

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International Expansion

For family groups ready to grow beyond their home market, with particular depth in Africa.

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Performance Acceleration

Coaching for founders, successors and family executives, and work with their leadership teams. Because the business can only grow as far as the people leading it.

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Start with a clear picture.

The Family Business Diagnostic is a fixed-scope, fixed-fee first engagement. In about four weeks we speak confidentially with the people who matter, review your ownership, governance and organisation, and give the family a clear, prioritised view of what is holding the business back and what to do first.

How the Diagnostic works

For international families

Hold your family’s business from one of the best places in the world to do it.

Wherever your family lives and wherever its businesses operate, we help you set up a family holding company or foundation in the UAE, and benefit from four things few jurisdictions offer together:

Attractive tax

9%Headline corporate tax

0%Possible on qualifying free-zone income

0%Personal income tax

0%Withholding tax

Exemption for qualifying dividends and capital gains from subsidiaries
More than 140 double tax treaties

A robust legal system

A legal framework built for family businesses and family charters
Common-law courts in DIFC and ADGM, in English
Foundations to hold and protect family wealth across generations
100% foreign ownership in free zones and most mainland activities
A holding structure that separates operating risk from family assets

Low bureaucracy, real speed

Companies and foundations set up quickly, with clear, digital processes
A government that works at business pace
A choice of free zones, from DIFC and ADGM to leaner alternatives

Strong banking, free-flowing capital

Well-capitalised local and international banks
Multi-currency accounts and access to global capital
Full repatriation of capital and profits, with no exchange controls
A trusted base for lenders, investors and partners

“For families with businesses in several countries, I believe the UAE is one of the best options in the world for a family holding company or foundation.”Omar Abdelrazak, Founder

Discuss a UAE holding structure Read: why families choose the UAE for their holding company

Conditions apply to each rate and exemption; the right structure depends on the family’s circumstances.

To confirm: tax and legal content to be reviewed by a qualified UAE tax adviser and lawyer (brief 6.7)

Growth beyond your home market, with operating experience behind you.

Our founder’s family group builds and runs businesses across Africa and Türkiye. We bring that experience to families planning their next market.

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Is your family business ready for the next generation?

Ten questions. Three minutes. An honest view of where your family business stands on succession, governance and structure.

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Insights for business families.

Governance · In preparationWhy families choose the UAE for their holding companyLaw, tax and free-zone options, and what they mean for families based elsewhere.Structure · In preparationSeven signs your family business has outgrown its structureDrawn from real restructuring experience.International Growth · In preparationBefore you expand into Africa: questions every family group should answerPractical, risk-aware, specific.

Let’s talk about the next chapter of your family business.

Whether you are facing a difficult family conversation, a structure that no longer fits, or a decision about where to grow next, we welcome a confidential conversation.

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