Areas of practice

Our corporate and commercial practice is a core component of our business.

Doing business in Mauritius requires good knowledge of the legal and regulatory framework; from deciding among the various options, the opportunities and incentives, the various permits required, registration, investor protections, contractual obligations, etc.

The team is well experienced in providing a diverse range of services to companies, partnerships, limited liability partnerships, trusts, joint ventures, across various sectors. We advise on a wide range of complex assignments involving local and international cross border corporate transactions, representing lenders, borrowers and other project participants on contracts, financing and security documents. We advise clients generally on company law matters, insolvency and restructuring matters and proceedings, mergers, acquisitions, commercial, project and asset finance, directors, shareholder relations, equity and debt offerings, creditors’ rights, and numerous other complex issues with a clear and solution oriented approach.

Also covered:

Ship/yacht registration and mortgage
Aircraft registration and lease

Global Business and Financial Services

Clients need practical and industry savvy financial services lawyers who can identify and advise on new opportunities as well as on requirements.

Our dedicated and perfectly equipped team actively advise international clients setting up or managing investments structured through the Mauritius International Financial Centre on all aspects of regulatory, corporate and commercial matters with regard to the various Mauritius vehicles such as:

Limited Companies
Protected Cell Companies
Civil law Sociétés ( French -law type partnerships)
Limited Partnerships
Collective Investment Schemes
Trusts

Our clients include fund managers, banks and financial institutions, DFIs, multinational corporations as well as small businesses and private individuals.

We work with international teams, including major international law firms as Counsel on matters of Mauritius law in connection with the drafting and reviewing of legal constitutive and transaction documents involving Mauritian domiciled entities.

We advise on corporate, transactional, and contentious issues and ensure that we fully identify our clients’ requirements so as to deliver comprehensive and satisfactory solutions.

Key Private Client Services

Multiple-business owners and high-net-worth clients face increasingly complex legal challenges when it comes to the management of their wealth and their properties in multiple jurisdictions and they require highly specialist legal advice on key private client services.

We are attentive to our clients’ needs and provide tailored solutions that are fiscally, legally and commercially sound to businesses and business owners, high net worth individuals (including executives), families and intermediaries in relation to business structuring, succession planning, wills & estates, estates litigation and family and relationship law issues.

Areas covered:

advice and support on business and corporate structuring
family office, family agreements and succession planning
general business succession advice, generational transition and planning
wealth planning and asset protection
stakeholder agreements for partnership, shareholders and joint ventures
estate administration and litigation
investment opportunities for foreigners in Mauritius.

Whilst litigation may at times be necessary or unavoidable, we make every effort to set the table for the negotiation and the settlement of disputes in the best interests of our clients, ensuring utmost confidentiality and discretion.