KPMG’s M&A Tax team helps you navigate the tax complexities of buying, selling or investing in a business.

We know that as you work through a deal, you’re asking critical questions like how should you structure an acquisition or disposal to meet your commercial objectives? How do you protect against, or price for, potential historical tax exposures identified during due diligence? And how can you make sure tax issues don’t derail value, timing or certainty of completion?

Transactions are inherently complex, with multiple stakeholders, tight timelines and many moving parts. Our role is to work alongside you to anticipate tax risks, identify hidden exposures and undisclosed liabilities, and highlight value-driving opportunities that can influence deal pricing, structure and negotiations. We focus not only on the immediate risk profile of the transaction, but also on how potential future tax attributes and benefits may be affected by the deal.

We go beyond traditional tax compliance and due diligence by helping you design and implement practical, tax-efficient structures for acquisitions, disposals, investments, refinancings and future exits. Drawing on KPMG’s global network, we combine deep local insight with international tax experience and technical experience to support our clients on both domestic and cross-border deals. From initial bid and structuring, through execution, to post-transaction planning, our M&A Tax team is focused on helping you manage risk, achieve your commercial objectives and maximise after-tax value from your transactions.

Expert team

Seasoned professionals with deep UAE tax expertise

Innovative solutions

Cutting-edge approaches to complex Tax challenges

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Reliable guidance for your business growth

Our services

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Tax Due Diligence

We provide buy and sell side tax due diligence, along with pre-deal health checks, to help you identify potential exposures, liabilities, and opportunities at an early stage of the transaction. Our approach delivers clear, actionable insights, including quantified risks and practical recommendations, enabling tax considerations to be fully reflected in pricing, deal negotiations (including warranties and indemnities), and post-closing integration planning.

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Tax Modelling

We bring a tax lens to your deal model, reviewing key assumptions or building robust, integrated tax models that align seamlessly with your financial analysis. From forecasting cash taxes and effective tax rates to running scenario and sensitivity analysis, we provide clear insight into how different structures, funding strategies, and exit routes impact value. The result: better-informed decisions and clearer communication with stakeholders across the deal team.

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Tax Structuring

We design acquisition, holding, and exit structures that align tax efficiency with your broader commercial, operational, and legal objectives. Our approach goes beyond technical design, we develop pragmatic, implementable solutions that support your immediate deal goals while providing the flexibility to enable future acquisitions, disposals or monetization events, efficient debt servicing, and profit repatriation.

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Vendor tax services

Our vendor tax due diligence and sell-side assistance process helps you identify and address key tax exposures, risks, and opportunities ahead of going to market. Our insight-led analysis provides clear, quantified findings which enable you to proactively resolve issues, strengthen your equity story, and reduce uncertainty for potential buyers. We work alongside you throughout the process to shape the tax narrative, support data room readiness, and respond effectively to buyer queries. Bringing a commercial, deal-focused perspective, we help you minimize execution risk, limit price erosion, and protect value through to signing and completion.

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SPA and deal support

We provide support with SPAs and transaction documentation to ensure tax provisions are fully aligned with the agreed deal structure and due diligence insights. This includes pricing mechanisms, as well as tax-related representations, warranties, and indemnities. Working seamlessly with your legal and commercial teams, we bring a commercial, insight-led perspective to negotiations with buyers, sellers, lenders, and W&I insurers to help you manage tax risk and protect value at signing, completion, and throughout the deal lifecycle.

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Post deal integration

We support both pre and post deal implementation, helping you operationalize the chosen tax structure and embed it effectively within your organization and processes. Working alongside your teams, we focus on capturing planned tax synergies, addressing issues early, and refining the structure as the business integrates and evolves ensuring value is realized and sustained without compromising control.