Private equity, venture capital, and infrastructure funds investing into African operating companies, leveraging the Mauritius and Africa treaty network and IPPA protections.
A regulated international financial centre with three decades of experience structuring international investment, an extensive treaty network, and direct access to African and Asian markets.
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Mauritius has spent more than 30 years developing as an international financial centre. It is regulated by the Financial Services Commission, supervised under standards aligned with the OECD and FATF, and used by institutional investors, fund managers, and family offices structuring capital into emerging markets.
What distinguishes Mauritius from other offshore centres is not its tax regime. It is the combination of a substantive treaty network with African and Asian counterparties, a hybrid legal system drawing on both common law and civil code traditions, and a regulated environment that sophisticated investors and counterparty banks recognise.
This page sets out the substantive case for using Mauritius, with the data behind it, and the use cases where the jurisdiction earns its place.
Eight structural advantages that make Mauritius the right jurisdiction for international investment.
The structures and strategies for which Mauritius is most often the right jurisdiction.
Private equity, venture capital, and infrastructure funds investing into African operating companies, leveraging the Mauritius and Africa treaty network and IPPA protections.
Group holdings structuring African or Asian operating subsidiaries, treasury vehicles and intercompany financing, using Mauritius as the regulated holding layer.
Trusts and foundations for families seeking succession planning, asset protection and stable governance under a familiar legal system.
Closed ended and open ended funds investing across Africa, India and frontier markets, domiciled in a regulated jurisdiction that complies with OECD standards and operates with substance.
Single and multi family offices, private holding structures and high net worth wealth coordination, with relocation and residency permit options.
International trading, consulting, IT services and shipping vehicles that genuinely operate outside Mauritius, using the jurisdiction as a clean corporate platform.
Tell us what you are looking to build, hold or manage. We will help you assess whether Mauritius, and Nexus, are the right fit for your objectives.
Nousrath Bhugeloo is the Executive Chairperson of Nexus Global Financial Services Limited. She has over 20 years of experience in corporate services.
She is a business leader with recognised expertise in advising multinationals, funds, family offices and individual entrepreneurs on their value enhancing strategy and cross border business. Nousrath sits on the board of a number of companies and funds active in Africa. In a previous position, she spearheaded the growth strategy at ABAX, which was acquired by Ocorian in 2018. Pursuing an Africa-focused strategy, she was instrumental in the expansion and growth of the Africa-led business of the firm. She is an Associate Member of the Chartered Governance Institute and holds an Executive MBA from Essex Business School. She is an active member of women-in-business networks.