Transaction Support Services
Five phases from first question to signed process
Each phase removes friction, builds credibility, and positions the client for a successful engagement with investors, lenders, and strategic partners.
Business readiness assessment
An honest read of where the business stands against what a buyer, lender, or regulator will ask for.
Data room preparation
Structure, index, and populate the data room so diligence runs to your timetable rather than theirs.
Corporate governance clean-up
Resolve the constitutional documents, board records, and shareholder arrangements that stall a deal.
Risk and issue mapping
Surface the difficult questions first and prepare the Q&A responses before they are asked.
Management presentation
Build the business plan and the management presentation that carry the story into the room.
Capital market frameworks and legal reform
HATCH partners bring hands-on experience in exchange licensing, market infrastructure, and regulatory design.
This is the work of standing a market up: the authorization to operate, the rulebook that governs what can be listed, and the regulator relationship that keeps both current.
Exchange and market authorization
- Equities and derivatives market licensing
- Listing authority design
- Clearing and settlement frameworks
- Broker participation rules
Product development rules
- Bonds and Sukuk
- Exchange traded funds and REITs
- Equities and derivatives
- Issuance and admission criteria
Legal reform and policy
- Policy drafting
- Regulatory gap analysis
- Compliance frameworks for emerging sectors
- Transition and grandfathering design
Regulator liaison
- Financial regulator engagement
- Market infrastructure development
- Cross-sector governance
- Multi-jurisdiction approval management
Legal expertise is delivered in partnership with specialist firms to ensure depth of sector expertise.
Governance, legal and regulatory advisory
HATCH advises clients on governance, legal, regulatory, and compliance frameworks that strengthen decision-making, accountability, risk oversight, and institutional readiness across regulated, listed, family-owned, and growth-stage businesses.
Legal, compliance and corporate governance
We audit and assess organizational processes to uncover legal vulnerability and structural regulatory friction, mapping risk profiles to protect operations.
Delivering tailored governance blueprints, establishing internal legal frameworks, and building capability models for board and team compliance.
Frameworks and regulation
- Corporate governance frameworks and policies
- Regulatory strategy and policy development
- Governance for regulated and listed entities
- Legal and compliance framework development
- Family and business governance frameworks
Boards and oversight
- Board governance and company secretarial advisory
- Non-executive director advisory
- Risk management advisory and committee support
- Reporting and escalation structures
- Stakeholder accountability models
Family office structuring
We help family offices, institutions, and private principals expand into new markets by creating the partnerships, structures, and pathways that unlock new geographies, capital, customers, and capabilities.
Six decisions set the shape of a family office. Taken in the wrong order they become expensive to reverse.