Bio

Ali Taher is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Strategy and Performance Improvement in Abu Dhabi. He brings more than 15 years of professional advisory experience in supporting clients navigate complex changes in their business lifecycle. His main areas of concentration include mergers and acquisitions, performance improvement, restructuring and turnarounds. Mr. Taher’s has worked with clients across a range of industries, including construction, real estate, industrials and healthcare. Most recently, Mr. Taher advised a major KSA public sector entity in relation to its feasibility assessment of a commercial composting project. This included an assessment of the market demand, detailed understanding and assessment of the planned operating model, detailed build-up of project costs and capital requirements, assessment of financial returns and structure of the joint venture to manage the project. Additionally, Mr. Taher has advised a major UAE family-owned construction and transportation group, which included business strategy, operating model and organizational structure and the preparation and presentation of a performance improvement plan. The assignment also included a deep dive financial analysis of the profitability of individual business units to advise on future focus areas. Furthermore, Mr. Taher advised a UAE conglomerate which operated across numerous sectors, assessing the group capital structure, which led to a bottom-up cost savings plan to help the group develop a more sustainable operating model. Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Taher spent more than 14 years with Deloitte, where he most recently served as Director in the Financial Advisory team in Abu Dhabi. He advised several Tier 1 Abu Dhabi public sector clients on major M&A transactions and led numerous performance improvement engagements, including cost optimization, strategic options analysis, business diagnostic and value creation initiatives. Mr. Taher earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the American University of Beirut. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst. A Canadian (of Lebanese origin), Mr. Taher is fluent in English and Arabic.