A DIFC-Based Project Sponsor and Investment Holding Company
Capital, Held with Intention
General Holdings Limited is a boutique project sponsor and investment holding company that identifies, develops, structures and advances complex projects and operating opportunities across sectors and geographies. Based in the Dubai International Financial Centre, we combine our own balance-sheet capital with operating expertise and institutional relationships to transform compelling opportunities into executable projects.
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How We're Different
An Owner and Project Sponsor, Not a Financial Intermediary
General Holdings Limited commits its own balance-sheet capital and takes direct ownership interests in the projects and businesses it develops. We are not a fund manager, investment adviser or financial intermediary, and we do not manage third-party capital. Every project we advance is one in which General Holdings participates directly as an owner, sponsor or commercial partner, bringing structuring expertise, operating discipline and institutional relationships to bear.

This distinction shapes how we work. We can commit to projects over the timeframes they require, whether that means advancing energy infrastructure, developing a physical commodity supply arrangement, or building an operating platform in a new market from the ground up.
What We Do
Our Focus Areas
General Holdings concentrates on two areas, unified by a single approach: developing complex projects and businesses that benefit from patient balance-sheet capital and genuine operating expertise.
Energy & Industrial Infrastructure in Emerging Markets
Our primary focus is the restart and recapitalisation of energy infrastructure in emerging markets.
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Strategic Minerals & Commodity Trade Flows
We structure and advance cross-border physical trade relationships in strategic minerals and commodities, with particular focus on flows between Gulf producers and international offtakers.
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Our Projects
From Our Projects
A small number of programmes best represent the scale and ambition of our current work, described here at the level of detail we are able to share publicly.
Strategic Minerals & Commodities
Building Long-Term Commodity Relationships
General Holdings is structuring long-term physical trade relationships in strategic minerals and commodities between Gulf producers and international offtakers. Our work requires aligning production, logistics, and offtake commitments into durable commercial arrangements.
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Leadership
Led by Operators, Not Just Investors
Paul Scribner
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
An international investor and corporate executive with more than two decades of experience in structured finance, cross-border transactions, restructuring, and complex real-asset investments.
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GH Insights
From Our Desk
Capital & Investment
The Architecture of Leverage
Leverage is not a number on a balance sheet. It is a set of relationships, obligations and timelines that must be designed with the same care as a building.
Energy & Infrastructure
Djibouti: The World's Most Valuable Square Mile
A small republic at the mouth of the Red Sea holds disproportionate influence over global trade. A study in geography as infrastructure.
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General Holdings welcomes conversations with operating partners and counterparties across our focus areas
Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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A DIFC-based project sponsor and investment holding company
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General Holdings Limited is incorporated in the DIFC under DIFC Law No. 5 of 2018 (Licence No. CL9442). It is not authorised or regulated by the DFSA, does not hold any licence, authorisation or registration issued by the DFSA or any other financial regulatory authority, and does not carry on any Financial Service in or from the DIFC.