United Arab Emirates · Advanced industry
Abu Dhabi
Advanced manufacturing for the electrification economy, led by an established international operator. Open for capital commitments now.
Live & openForfait holds exclusive mandates that connect established global manufacturers and project principals to sovereign funds, family offices and strategic investors across the GCC and wider MENA region — with the groundwork already done.
International principals know their product and their existing markets. They rarely have the relationships, mandate structure and on-the-ground presence to access Gulf capital. Forfait bridges that gap — exclusively, and end-to-end.
Forfait Representation of Companies is an Abu Dhabi-based intermediary. We take a small number of strategic mandates and carry them from positioning through to the investor's commitment — structured, compliant and confidential at every stage.
We act as the exclusive regional mandatary for each principal. That means one aligned counterparty, a clean process and no competing channels muddying the conversation with investors.
Direct, qualified access to sovereign wealth funds, family offices and strategic and institutional investors across the GCC and the broader MENA corridor.
Teaser, data room, expression-of-interest structures and term framing are prepared before an investor ever engages — so the conversation starts at substance, not setup.
Positioning, structuring and principal alignment are done. For the investor, the role narrows to one decision — a capital commitment that triggers the principal's board approval and moves the project from plan to build.
What follows is a public overview. The operator's name, the figures and the data room are reserved for registered parties — released in stages, under a simple NDA.
Our flagship mandate sits at the heart of the electrification economy — a new, world-class manufacturing operation to be established in Abu Dhabi by an established international producer, serving the Gulf and the fast-growing markets around it.
It pairs proven technology and a real, existing global track record with a region that is actively investing to localise advanced industry: a rare combination of a de-risked operator and a market that genuinely wants the project on its soil.
The opportunity is anchored in copper — a material the world is structurally short of as electrification accelerates. Value-added capacity here is increasingly strategic, not commodity.
Electric vehicles, power grids and industrial automation all pull on the same product set. The demand curve is long, global and largely independent of any single market cycle.
Abu Dhabi is purposefully bringing advanced manufacturing onshore — with capital, incentives and full foreign ownership lined up behind exactly this kind of venture.
A growing set of mandates across the energy, industrial and infrastructure corridors we know best — one live today, the rest in preparation. Each is shown here only in outline; the full brief follows registration.
Advanced manufacturing for the electrification economy, led by an established international operator. Open for capital commitments now.
Live & openA large-scale airport-city (aerotropolis) in the region — mixed-use real estate, hospitality, logistics and free-zone assets anchored to one of the area's busiest international gateways, aligned with a national economic-diversification agenda.
In preparationAn engagement in one of the continent's major energy economies, shaping a mandate aligned to the region's resource, power and infrastructure priorities.
Mandate formingA strategic hub on the world's busiest shipping and energy corridor — the link between Indian Ocean and Pacific trade, and a natural staging point for industry serving Asia.
In developmentA manufacturing and resource-linked opportunity in one of Asia's fastest-growing industrial markets, positioned within the region's expanding supply chains.
ExploratoryAn early-stage feasibility into an energy- and industry-linked platform — assessed as a longer-horizon Asian hub alongside the region's resource base.
FeasibilityWhat you see is a public overview — names, figures and the full brief on each mandate are released to registered parties under a simple NDA. Forfait is also evolving into Forfait 2, a full platform that will bring every mandate together in one place — registered parties will be first to access it.
The macro backdrop behind the mandate — copper scarcity, the electrification build-out, and the UAE's deliberate push to localise advanced manufacturing.
A landmark S&P Global study projects copper demand rising roughly 50% to about 42 million tonnes by 2040 as electrification, AI data centres and defence converge — against a supply gap that could reach 10 million tonnes. Secured, value-added copper-product capacity becomes strategic, not commodity.
Read the study →The global magnet / winding-wire market sits in the mid-USD 30 billions in 2026 and is forecast to keep growing through the decade, led by EV motors, grid transformers and factory automation. Producers are moving to higher-spec insulated copper — PEEK coatings and rectangular hairpin conductors — lifting value per kilogram.
See the data →Under "Operation 300bn," the UAE is driving its industrial sector toward AED 300 billion of GDP by 2031. At Make it in the Emirates 2026, around AED 171 billion in new industrial deals were announced — backed by 100% foreign ownership and dedicated financing. The capital and the policy intent are aligned with exactly this kind of project.
Read coverage →An electric vehicle uses roughly three to four times the copper of a combustion car, and more than a mile of magnet wire sits in its motor windings alone. Multiply that across the EV ramp, renewables and grid upgrades and the structural pull on high-performance winding wire is clear.
Explore the driver →Sources are public, third-party and dated. Figures are indicative of market direction, not a forecast for any specific project.
Mandates move on relationships and judgement. Forfait is led and advised by people who have operated at the very top of the region's energy and industrial sectors.
Founder and Chairperson of Forfait, Mazen brings more than 24 years across capital markets and cross-border business development to every mandate. He sits at the centre of each engagement — pairing a deep network spanning the Gulf's sovereign, institutional and family-office capital with the operators and principals looking to deploy it — and leads it end to end, from positioning and investor strategy through to the table where commitments are made. His focus is advanced industry, energy and the strategic opportunities reshaping the MENA region, and converting them into capital that closes.
Three decades in the LNG industry, much of it in senior roles across ADNOC LNG and ADNOC Corporate, where he led LNG strategy and steered complex stakeholder relationships and competing interests. A specialist in operational excellence and growth strategy, Fouad has been pivotal in shaping and executing corporate plans that deliver durable success — and brings to Forfait deep sector expertise and an extensive network of regional stakeholders.
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Four steps from first contact to full disclosure. Detailed materials are shared only once a mutual agreement is signed — keeping the process clean for everyone.
A short note via the form below — tell us who you are and which opportunity is relevant. We come back to you directly; no public email needed.
A brief discussion to align on fit, scale and objectives, and to walk through the teaser at a high level.
A short, mutual non-disclosure / non-circumvention agreement. Straightforward, and the gateway to full disclosure.
Principal identity, the data room, the business plan and an expression-of-interest with structured terms to discuss and elaborate.
What's public here is a deliberate overview. Register your interest and we'll come back to you directly — with fuller detail, a call, and, under a simple NDA, the complete picture. No need to email us; registering is enough to start.