The Layer Above The Rolodex

Merchant Banking, Practiced for the Modern Private Markets.

Founders, funds, and sponsors come to Inaya for capital raising and private market deal origination. Every mandate is run from the principal's chair, by people who have raised and sold on their own account. The mandate is assessed and positioned before the market is ever engaged, so that what reaches it is already clear and defensible.

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The Firm

Access, Judgement, Execution.

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At Inaya, we blend the discipline of institutional capital advisory with the instincts of modern origination. Our clients are fund managers, sponsors, founders, and private wealth principals. We pride ourselves on being operators first, advisors second, bringing a practical, ownership-driven view to every mandate.

With deep transactional experience across capital formation, M&A, and private wealth, we bring more than advice. Whether the mandate is a fund raise, a real estate or infrastructure project, growth capital, or a private wealth introduction, every engagement is qualified before it begins and built to close.

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Global Access

Access is the part of this business that cannot be improvised.

Inaya holds standing relationships with allocators, family offices, and private wealth principals across the Gulf, Europe, North America, and APAC. These are direct relationships built over years, which is why an introduction from Inaya arrives already warm.

Our Network Profiles

The other side of a mandate.

Thesis

Capital Markets

When you are raising, the difficulty is rarely the merit of the business. It is reaching the allocators whose mandate actually fits yours, in the order that builds momentum rather than spends it, and arriving in front of them already understood, framed as the opportunity it is rather than one more deck in the pile.

We identify the allocators suited to each mandate and prepare them before the first conversation, so the raise reaches them already positioned to be understood on its own terms.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Not every situation calls for capital. A founder may be weighing a full exit, a family a succession, a principal the sale of a minority stake, each resting on judgment well before it rests on price. We advise them through the whole of it, from how it is positioned and valued to how it is structured and timed.

We take one situation at a time and confirm fit on both sides before any conversation begins, so the counterparty in the room is one with genuine reason to be there.

Deal Origination

The same relationships that serve those raising also serve those deploying. For allocators, family offices, and advisory firms, we originate situations across our coverage, from fund raises and real estate to growth capital and private wealth, each held to the standard we apply on the advisory side of the table.

Every situation is weighed against that standard before it reaches you, so what arrives is worth the time it asks for and never sent on the chance that it lands.

The Funnel

From hundreds, to a handful.

Screening

Hundreds of situations pass through our coverage each year, the majority of which warrant no more than an initial review.

Ongoing

Initial Call

A preliminary discussion to determine whether the situation merits mutual engagement, with no obligation on either side.

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Assessment

We evaluate the mandate and the counterparty against our internal threshold, and you receive a candid read on where it stands.

Week 1

Internal Diligence

Substantive work commences once fit and timing are established, each a precondition rather than a formality.

Weeks 2-3

Acceptance

A select share of screened situations is ultimately taken on, and that discipline is what gives an Inaya introduction its standing with the parties who receive it.

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