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Top 25 Merchant banks based in the United Arab Emirates
RevenueBase identified 206 merchant banks headquartered in the United Arab Emirates as of September 2026 and tracks 1,824 professional contacts across them, including 519 with verified work emails. Dubai is the largest hub.
This list covers merchant banks headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 17, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest merchant banks based in the United Arab Emirates
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 258 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SHUAA Capital psc (DFM: SHUAA) is a leading asset management and investment banking platform.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Strategy Determines Outcome.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Acquara is a leading global financial outsourcing organization that delivers a broad range of financial services across Financial Outsourcing, investment banking, Mergers &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MICS offers a comprehensive suite of financial advisory services tailored to meet your business needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Innoventure Finance was incorporated in 2022, a complete transformation of high-end financial services by Ex- Bankers having more than one and half decades of experience in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alpen Capital is an investment banking advisory firm established in 2005, which offers solutions in the areas of Debt, M&A and Equity to institutional and corporate clients across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Faber Capital is an investment banking firm formed by a group of International Bankers, Capital Markets & Private Equity professionals with decades of experience in Investing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Independent DFSA regulated financial services firm focusing on M&A and Capital Raising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NAV Capital is founded and managed by a Team with collective industry experience of 30+ years in Private Banking, Structured products and Asset Management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fiducia Capital is an asset management and investment banking advisory boutique that offers investment management and corporate finance advisory services to private clients…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “H Capital Limited is a wealth management advisory firm that offers investment and corporate finance advisory services to private clients and institutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Meghraj Capital is Meghraj Group’s investment banking advisory business, and has been operating since the early 1990s.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AM CAPITAL is the go-to financial and advisory firm for M&A, financial and corporate advisory.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wealth World is a new-age investment banking and wealth management advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “M Strategy Global is a boutique corporate group headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with operations spread across Middle East, North Africa, Europe and India.o M…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gate Capital offers a unique expertise in, financial restructuring and opportunity investing by blending extensive experiences across the Middle East, North Africa and South East…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an independent firm, focused on providing superior insights and advice in strategically important, high-value, complex situations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lumina is a specialist mid-market Corporate Finance adviser, regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority, providing hands on M&A and funding advisory solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Synergy Consulting, established in 2009, is a financial advisory firm with extensive industry and commercial experience in Fund Raising across the Middle East.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trussbridge is an independent investment bank providing objective and unbiased strategic financial advisory services and access to capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gulf International Finance Limited (GIFL) is a financial services company registered in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), Dubai, UAE and regulated by the Dubai…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In the shifting sands of today’s business environment, clients need expertise that they can rely on.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maven Investment Partners is a Middle East based boutique advisory firm comprising of senior industry veterans with extensive experience in Corporate Finance Advisory, M&A…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With offices in London (UK) and Dubai (UAE), Fox-Davies Capital works with corporate clients and institutional investors located around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mergers & Acquisitions | Corporate Finance | Business Valuations | Strategic Financial Management | Family Office Advisory Advisors M.E.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: merchant banks. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names merchant banks.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of merchant banks, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name merchant banks. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Merchant banks based in the United Arab Emirates at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Arab Emirates, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Arab Emirates, over 206 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among merchant banks, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates whose own description of what they do matches “merchant banks”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names merchant banks), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among merchant banks, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Arab Emirates are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 519 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Merchant banks by metro
- Merchant banks in Dubai136
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names merchant banks, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many merchant banks are there based in the United Arab Emirates?
RevenueBase identified 206 merchant banks headquartered in the United Arab Emirates as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Shuaa Capital, headquartered in Dubai, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most merchant banks?
Dubai leads with 136 headquartered companies, followed by Abu Dhabi (7) and Sharjah (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 519 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 206 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 17, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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