Deal advisory - M&A tax

In today’s fast-moving deal environment, every decision matters. Whether you are acquiring, divesting, raising capital, or preparing for an IPO, KPMG in Saudi Arabia helps you navigate the tax complexities of your transaction with clarity and confidence. Our M&A tax professionals think like investors, identifying risks, unlocking value, and delivering results that stand up long after the deal closes.

We support our clients across the full M&A lifecycle. From strategy through to execution and post-deal integration, we combine local insight with global reach to help you make the right tax decisions at every step.

We are active across Saudi Arabia’s key growth sectors; oil and gas, mining, technology, real estate, and infrastructure, helping clients align transactions with Vision 2030 priorities and cross-border investment opportunities.

Our specialists advise on:

• Transaction structuring: Designing efficient acquisition and divestment structures, joint ventures, and reorganizations that maximize value and minimize tax leakage.
• Tax due diligence: Identifying historical exposures, assessing target tax profiles, and quantifying potential deal risks.
• Tax modelling: Building financial models to forecast post-deal tax outcomes and support valuation and bid strategies.
• Vendor assistance: Supporting sellers with pre-sale reorganizations, documentation, and responses to buyer diligence.
• Post-deal integration: Aligning tax positions, cashflows, and systems to ensure seamless transition and long-term value creation.
• IPO readiness: Helping businesses prepare for public markets, from corporate structure reviews and compliance health checks to investor-grade reporting.
• Exit planning: Supporting tax-efficient market exits, divestments, and shareholder reorganizations to preserve value.

Timely and relevant advice

Deals move quickly; our teams move faster. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with clients, combining technical depth with commercial focus to deliver practical, time-critical advice. We understand that timing is everything in competitive auctions or private negotiations and our deal focused teams are structured to deliver under pressure.

Integrated expertise

Our M&A tax offering is fully integrated within KPMG’s Deal Advisory network. We collaborate seamlessly with our corporate finance, valuation, and legal specialists, ensuring a single joined-up solution from start to finish. This means our clients receive one consistent message, one coordinated team, and one result: value creation.

Bridging local and global perspectives

Through KPMG’s global network of M&A professionals, we deliver insight on both inbound and outbound transactions, bridging Saudi tax requirements with the commercial realities of cross-border investment.