UAE’s disruptive legal start-up, Oryx, adds corporate finance and advisory, and compliance to suite of professional services

  • Date: 09-Oct-2023
  • Source: Zawya
  • Sector:Technology
  • Country:UAE
  • Who else needs to know?

UAE’s disruptive legal start-up, Oryx, adds corporate finance and advisory, and compliance to suite of professional services

- Strategic onboarding of Oryx’s first key executives outside the legal space underscores Oryx’s robust growth and market expansion across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the US, UK and Europe

Dubai, UAE: Oryx Legal Consultants, a UAE-based disruptive legal start-up, today announced its expansion into the complimentary professional services of corporate finance and advisory, and compliance services.

Previously offering a range of innovative services in the legal industry, including fixed- fee and fractional models, Oryx’s groundbreaking entry into the corporate finance and advisory, and compliance disciplines through Dubai-based Oryx Consulting, signifies a major milestone in the professional services industry.

The pioneering step is marked by the onboarding of two senior industry executives, Gareth Ling and Richard Clarke who will represent Oryx’s new compliance and corporate finance and advisory businesses, respectively.

The expansion positions Oryx as a one-stop hub for businesses, offering services ranging from legal advice and financial services compliance services to transaction advisory and management, debt/equity structuring advice, corporate restructuring / re-organisation, financial transformation and even supporting start-ups through their capital raising journey.

Vanessa Abernethy, Co-Founder of Oryx, commented, "Our journey from a legal start-up to this expanded remit, in less than a year since launch, reflects our ambition to continuously innovate. The addition of