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Two disciplines, one advisor

A corporate financier who is also legally trained, with FinTech experience — one advisor to model the deal, structure the financing and navigate the documentation.

Sami Matraji, Founding Partner
Sami Matraji

Founding Partner

Corporate Finance · Legal · FinTech

Over 18 years across corporate and investment banking in the GCC, UK and US, advising on more than USD 1.5bn of transactions. Sami pairs bank-grade modelling and credit judgement with formal legal training — spotting the risk a financial analyst misses and the risk a lawyer misses, and coordinating model, financing structure and transaction documents under one roof.

LLM, Int'l Commercial & Business Law LPC (Commendation) FMVA M&A — Columbia Private Equity — Imperial EN / AR / FR

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Career arc

From banking floors to founding IMAS

Leading international banks — LondonInvestment & corporate banking — London

Early career across investment and corporate banking in the UK, building the modelling and credit foundations of the practice.

Leading regional bank — UAEHead of Corporate Finance / team leader — UAE

Led corporate finance and a corporate banking team — seeing first-hand how lenders and credit committees actually decide.

EV / automotive groupInterim CFO

Interim CFO of an electric-vehicle group, leading capital raising and financial leadership through a growth phase.

Enjaz Gulf & Storfund (London)Advisor · Counsel — FinTech

Counsel to a London embedded-finance platform — structuring receivables finance and cross-border regulatory positioning across the UK, France and the US.

IMAS Financing BrokerFounding Partner — Dubai

An independent advisory bringing the full finance-and-law combination to SMEs and corporates across the GCC, UK, US and Europe.

Why finance + law

Fewer hand-offs, cleaner closings

Most advisors can model a deal or arrange financing. Sami does both — and reads the legal documentation. That means the risk in the numbers and the risk in the fine print are identified by the same person, at the same time.

One principal coordinates the model, the financing structure and the transaction documents: less rework, fewer gaps between advisors, and a faster path to signing. Clients work directly with Sami, across borders, in English, Arabic and French.

Recognition

Legal Leader of the Year — FinTech Innovation & Cross-Border Structuring (MENA–Europe)

For leading the legal structuring and cross-border regulatory positioning of a receivables-finance product across the UK, France and the US — the finance-and-law combination that defines IMAS, recognised at the Global Legal Summit.

Board & advisory roles

Beyond the mandate

IOTA Nanosolutions

Non-Executive Director, representing the principal in a joint venture with Unilever.

Al Mutakamela Vehicles Testing & Registration

Led due diligence and sell-side advisory on a proposed majority-stake sale to a semi-government entity.

Blenheim Capital Services & Media Metrica

Board Observer / Advisor roles supporting governance and strategy.

Sector & deal experience

Where IMAS has worked

Real-estate development & securitisation

Cross-border M&A and JV structures

Private credit and hybrid financing

Debt restructuring and investor negotiations

Trade finance

EV / automotive capital raising

Embedded & receivables finance (FinTech)

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