Industries

Sector-deep advisory for the GCC's most demanding operators.

From federal authorities to founder-led businesses, IGBS works inside the operating reality of each sector. Each engagement is anchored in market evidence, regulatory context, and case-tested playbooks.

Sectors served end-to-end

AED 60B+

Combined client value advised

350+

Mandates delivered across the GCC

92%

Repeat or referred engagements

Sector coverage

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Private

Corporate & Enterprise

Structure for the next stage of scale.

Mid-to-large corporates in the GCC are scaling faster than their internal architecture can absorb. We help leadership teams reset operating models, governance, and management systems so growth stops outpacing control.

4 pain points · case study

Public

Government & Public Sector

Programmes built to withstand scrutiny.

Federal entities, emirate-level authorities, and government-linked organisations operate under intense delivery and disclosure pressure. We bring private-sector commercial discipline alongside the documentation and governance public mandates require.

4 pain points · case study

Investment

Real Estate & Built Environment

Commercial rigour for capital-intensive decisions.

Developers, master-developers, and asset owners across the UAE and KSA are managing portfolios where a single decision moves hundreds of millions. We bring the feasibility, operating-model, and positioning rigour that capital allocators expect.

4 pain points · case study

Private

SMEs & Family Businesses

From founder-led to institution-ready.

Founder and family-led businesses across the GCC generate the majority of private-sector employment. We help them install the structure, governance, and management discipline required for the next generation, external capital, or strategic exit.

4 pain points · case study

Investment

Investment & New Ventures

Decision-grade evidence before capital moves.

Investors, family offices, and corporate venture teams need a partner who can pressure-test opportunities and stand up the operating base of new ventures with the same rigour. We sit on both sides of the desk.

4 pain points · case study

Consumer

Retail & Commercial

Concept, channel, and unit economics that hold.

Retail, F&B, and commercial operators in the GCC compete in one of the densest consumer markets in the world. We help concepts launch with defensible economics and existing operators rebuild margin without diluting the brand.

4 pain points · case study

Knowledge

Technology & Digital

Commercial structure for technical businesses.

Software, platform, and digital businesses scaling in the GCC need commercial discipline that matches their technical ambition. We work with founders, GMs, and regional leaders to build go-to-market, pricing, and organisational design that scales.

4 pain points · case study

Consumer

Hospitality & Lifestyle

Concepts that earn their square metre.

Hotel owners, F&B groups, wellness brands, and lifestyle operators compete on experience, brand, and operational consistency. We help them validate concepts, sharpen positioning, and run the asset like the asset it is.

4 pain points · case study

Knowledge

Education & Training

Programmes that meet academic and commercial bars.

Schools, academies, higher-education providers, and corporate training businesses operate under regulatory, academic, and commercial pressures simultaneously. We bring the structure that lets each function support, not constrain, the others.

4 pain points · case study

Knowledge

Professional Services

Productise the practice without losing the craft.

Advisory, legal, accounting, engineering, and design practices in the GCC are themselves under pressure to scale. We help partner-led firms productise delivery, structure pricing, and design the practice for the next decade.

4 pain points · case study

Knowledge

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Clinical ambition meets operational discipline.

Hospital groups, specialty clinics, payors, and life-sciences operators across the GCC are scaling capacity while regulators tighten quality and pricing oversight. We help leadership teams structure operations, capital plans, and governance to deliver clinical ambition without margin erosion.

4 pain points · case study

Investment

Energy, Utilities & Infrastructure

Capital-grade rigour for the energy transition.

Utilities, IPPs, EPC contractors, and infrastructure investors across the GCC are deploying record capital into power, water, renewables, and transport. We bring the feasibility, governance, and operating discipline these long-cycle assets demand.

4 pain points · case study

Featured case study

Diversified UAE Holding Group

A second-generation conglomerate with seven operating units across construction, F&B, and logistics preparing for partial divestment.

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Challenge

Group functions duplicated across business units, no consolidated management reporting, and a board pack that read like an operations log. Buy-side diligence was imminent and the data room was thin.

Approach

→Mapped end-to-end operating model across the seven business units and quantified duplication
→Designed a lean group centre with shared services for finance, HR, IT, and procurement
→Built a delegation-of-authority matrix and rebuilt the board pack around capital, risk, and performance
→Stood up a 90-day implementation cadence with weekly steering and clear owners

Results

AED 38M

Annualised cost-out from shared services

11 → 4

Layers between CEO and front line

92%

Diligence questions answered from new data room

"We finally have a group that behaves like a group. The board pack alone changed how we run the business."

Group CEO, Diversified Holding

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Coverage

UAE & GCC

Engagement

Senior-led, 1:1