Corporate Structures and Entity Formation

Offshore Company Formation: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Mauritius If you’re considering offshore company formation, Mauritius should be at the top of your list. Mauritius continues to distinguish itself as one of Africa’s top-performing jurisdictions across multiple global benchmarks. Ranked 1st in Africa for Economic Freedom (Heritage Foundation 2025), Democracy…

Since 2022, the Mauritius Variable Capital Company (VCC) has given fund managers a single, regulated structure to run multiple strategies, investor classes and vehicles under one roof—while preserving statutory segregation, clear governance, and cost efficiency. For investors, it means ring‑fenced risk and transparent reporting; for managers, it means faster scaling,…

Do You Need a Mauritian Holding Company? Why Entrepreneurs Choose Mauritius for Their Global Structure in 2025 Whether you’re an African scale‑up plotting a London IPO, a European family office seeking treaty certainty, or a venture capitalist juggling cross‑border investments, the jurisdiction pick for your holding company can make or…

The Global Business Corporation: an effective tool for international tax planning A Global Business Corporation (GBC) is a resident corporation which proposes to conduct business principally outside of Mauritius and is licensed by the Financial Services Commission. A resident corporation is a body corporate formed or registered in Mauritius and…

Setting up an offshore business in Mauritius: 2025 guide Mauritius has gone out of its way to gain a solid reputation as a secure and reliable investment destination when it comes to stable governance, transparency, ethics, economic, and political freedom. And this is why we’ve seen so many offshore companies flourishing in…

What is an authorised company? Introduced in the Finance Act 2018 (Miscellaneous Provisions), an Authorised Company (AC) is a company whose business activities are conducted exclusively outside Mauritius. Just like a British Virgin Island International Business Company, an AC cannot do business within the Republic of Mauritius. The control and…