We offer the full range of corporate services, assisting with all issues that can arise throughout an organization's lifecycle – from incorporation to insolvency.
We act for a wide range of domestic and international clients: startups, small and medium enterprises, and large multinationals. From mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and venture capital to private and public equity and debt offerings, we assist clients through all stages of their transactions to ensure successful deal outcomes.
Our clients benefit from a valuable combination of global insight and local knowledge that allows us to handle all aspects of complex domestic and cross-border corporate transactions. Understanding the industry and the day-to-day issues faced by our clients is critical to our success.
Our corporate practice provides legal advice and litigation support on the following matters:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Structuring and advising private equity
- Shareholders' rights and remedies, shareholders' agreements
- Share terms of issue, distribution of shares, minority buyouts and pre-emptive rights
- Corporate advisory services, ranging from corporate governance to regulatory compliance
- IPOs and other public offerings on the Mauritius Stock Exchange
- Local and international trade issues
- Commercial litigation
- Drafting and advising on corporate documents and commercial transactions
Experience has included advising:
- Venture Capital Fund in its investment in a Mauritius based Fintech Company. We have reviewed the company’s constitutive documents, reviewed the subscription agreement, the shareholder’s agreement and advised VCF on the legal aspects of the transaction.
- IBL Ltd in connection with the takeovers of Lux Island Resorts Ltd and of Blue Life Ltd. The two biggest takeovers of 2018 in Mauritius.
- PLUM LLP, a limited liability partnership registered under in Kenya, in connection with the purchase by Plum LLP of shares held by British American Kenya Holdings Limited in Britam Holdings Limited.
- A large local conglomerate in a due diligence exercise on not less than 8 companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius. Physical searches into the files of the companies as well as carrying out searches at the Registrar of Companies, the Registry of the Supreme Court; the Industrial Property Office and the Data Protection Office.
- A company providing mobile commerce solutions in rural Africa. The company, headquartered in Kenya, is currently doing a seed funding for which we are advising the company on the structuring and legal documentation.
- A leading information technology consulting company in Seychelles with regards to debt recovery matters.
- Tier 1 in Finance & Corporate (IFLR1000 2023)
- Band 2 (Chambers & Partners Global)
- Tier 2 (The Legal 500)