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Independent Investment Firm · Middle East & North Africa

Alwaysin theBlack.

We back businesses that generate cash, not stories. Each held to one standard.

We originate, structure, and own productive businesses and real assets across MENA.

Experience in numbers
+9 Years
Principal Experience
US$14M+
Transaction Value
5 Sectors
Real Economy

Reflects the experience of the firm's principals, before and since BlackStandard.

What We Do

Acquire. Partner. Build.

We originate, structure, sponsor, and invest across the real economy. As owners, not spectators.

What we do
The Standard

Cash flow, not stories.

We look past the noise to real demand, cash flow, price, and structure. The opportunity changes. The standard does not.

Markets price assets. Enterprise creates value.

Sectors

Where black ink is made.

Five sectors of the real economy. Hard assets, steady demand, real earnings.

01

Trade & Commodities

02

Food & Beverage

03

Manufacturing & Industrials

04

Real Estate & Hospitality

05

Defence, Security & Strategic Industries

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Shariah & Governance

Principled by structure.

Our discipline and Islamic investment principles ask for the same things. Real assets. Shared risk. Income from enterprise, not interest.

Shariah & governance
Two Ways In

One standard. Two ways in.

For Business Owners

A long-term partner.

A long-term partner for what you built, and for what comes next.

For business owners
For Investors

Invest alongside us.

Access to opportunities grounded in real businesses and real cash flow.

For investors

Always in the black.