Common questions about Wrotham Partners.

Wrotham Partners is a boutique capital advisory firm and placement agent based in London. We help Western businesses raise growth equity, private capital and debt from family offices, private investors and other capital allocators in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Doha and Kuwait, and we advise on sales and acquisitions involving Gulf capital.

In London, where we have our only office. We cover the Gulf through regular travel and the relationships our team has built across the region.

No. We do not have an office in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Doha, Kuwait or anywhere else in the Gulf. Anyone claiming to represent a Wrotham Partners office in the region is not acting for us.

Wrotham Partners is led by its Founding Partners, Ali Govani and Dylan Opara, with a Board of Advisors and an execution team. You can see everyone on our People page.

We focus on one thing: connecting Western businesses with Gulf capital. Senior people lead every mandate, we take on a small number of mandates at a time, and we hold our investor relationships directly.

A placement agent represents a business or fund that is raising capital. It identifies suitable investors, makes introductions, manages the conversations and runs the process through to signed documents. It does not invest its own money or hold investor funds.

Established Western businesses, their boards and shareholders, and fund managers raising capital, typically raising around EUR 2 million or more (or the equivalent). On buy-side mandates we also advise family offices and investors. Our services are directed at professional and institutional parties.

Family offices, private investors and other capital allocators across the Gulf, principally in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Doha and Kuwait. We work with businesses in the UK, Europe and North America.

It starts with a confidential call to understand the business and the capital it needs. If we agree to work together, we prepare the materials, agree a list of suitable investors with you, make the introductions, manage the meetings and feedback, and support you through terms, due diligence and completion.

It depends on how prepared the business is and on the investors involved. A well-prepared raise commonly takes several months from first introductions to completion. We will give you an honest view of timing at the start.

Yes. Information is shared only with your authority, usually under a non-disclosure agreement, and the fact of a process is treated as confidential throughout.

Wrotham Partners does not hold itself out as authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority or any other regulator. We act as a capital adviser and placement agent. Where an activity requires authorisation, it is undertaken by, or with, appropriately authorised parties.

We charge an engagement fee set by the size of the raise, and a success fee on capital raised, with the engagement fee credited against the success fee. Fees are agreed in writing in an engagement letter before work begins. We never ask for a fee to release funds, and we never hold client or investor money.

No. We represent the party raising capital. We do not invest our own money and we do not manage investors' money.

No. We are not a bank or a deposit-taker and we do not lend. We advise on capital raises and transactions and introduce our clients to investors and lenders.

Never. Capital moves directly between the investor and the company. We never take custody of client or investor funds.

Never. A request to pay to release, unlock or guarantee funds is a hallmark of advance-fee fraud. If anyone asks you for this in our name, do not pay, and tell us straight away.

No. No adviser can guarantee investor appetite or an outcome, and anyone who does should be treated with caution. We tell clients plainly when we think a raise is unlikely to work or when it would be better to wait.

Check that you are on wrothampartners.com, that emails come from an @wrothampartners.com address and that the people you deal with appear on our Team page. Our Credentials and Verification pages set out how to check us independently. If in doubt, write to contact@wrothampartners.com from a new email, typed by hand.

Our team only uses @wrothampartners.com addresses. Check the full sender address, not only the display name. Be wary of free email accounts, lookalike domains and messaging apps with no prior email contact.

Yes. Our Transactions page shows a selection of mandates led or advised by the team, including transactions completed by team members at prior firms, and our Newsroom covers recent announcements. We are happy to talk through relevant experience on a first call.

Our LinkedIn company page, our Newsroom and published press releases about our transactions. You can also check our team members' own LinkedIn profiles from the Team page.

Please tell us through the Contact page or at contact@wrothampartners.com, then report it to the police or the national fraud reporting service in your country. Our Fraud and impersonation notice explains what to look for.

Never. We will never ask for your passwords or for access to your LinkedIn, email, bank or any other account, at any stage.

Never. We do not charge candidates for applications, training, equipment or checks, and we never ask for gift cards, vouchers or any other payment.

Demanding and rewarding. We are a small, senior-led firm in London, so people work on live mandates early and alongside the Founding Partners. Our Careers page has current roles and how we hire.

Book a call through the website, use the Contact page, or email contact@wrothampartners.com. A member of the team will reply personally.