Banking & Finance
Banking & Finance
Expert advice on all aspects of banking and finance transactions
Reckoned as a global gateway, the Mauritius International Financial Centre is well-regulated, geared towards providing high-end financial services and investment structures regionally and globally. With a spectrum of regulation and legislation, transactions across time zones and legislative frameworks are becoming more complex which in turn require expert advice.
BLC Robert advises and represents DFIs, international and domestic financial services, investment funds and corporates in local and cross-border transactions. With an in-depth knowledge of the banking and finance sector, we provide practical and timely legal advice on a wide range of banking and finance transactions.
Our experience in the domestic and international markets allow us to guide financing institutions and corporates through the structuring and completion of their projects. We further provide regulatory advice to banking and lending institution and assist them in the development of new products.
Our lawyers have significant experience in dealing with the most complex and innovative financing matters relating to the jurisdiction. Their strengths lie in combining a forward-looking approach, adaptability to markets’ changes and to new ways of structuring financing. Our goals to build and nurture long-standing relationships with clients are also underpinned by our proximity and availability to them.
Our Expertise
• Syndicated lending
• Structured finance
• Trade finance
• Project Finance
• Corporate finance
• Secured bonds
• Capital Markets
• Green and sustainability linked loans
• Pandemic finance
• Derivatives
• Banking regulatory and compliance
Key Contacts
Recent Works
• Adviser to Agence Francaise de Developpement in a sovereign loan to the State of Mauritius to support to budget implementation program of the Mauritian government, including to provide support linked to the impact of Covid19 in the jurisdiction.
- Adviser to the Mauritius Investment Corporation in relation to bonds subscription to the operators of tourism and manufacturing industry as part of the Covid19 support program of the government of Mauritius.
- Adviser to Cape Biologix Technologies and Cape Bio Pharms in the structuring of financing from European Investment Bank for the construction of a production unit in Mauritius to produce company the plant protein used as reagent in quick detection kits for Covid-19 and endemic diseases in Africa (in particular HIV, Ebola, dengue and yellow fever).
- Adviser to Société de Promotion et de Participation pour la Cooperation Economique S.A. (PROPARCO) and Deg – Deutsche Investitions – Und Entwicklungsgesellschaft Mbh (DEG) in a USD 65,000,000 loan to the Mauritius Commercial Bank Limited to finance its support program to support Mauritian businesses (specially SMEs) affected by the Covid-19 crisis.
- Adviser to ABSA BANK (Mauritius) Limited in the structuring of Covid19 relief financing.
- Advising a leading African energy company and independent power producer on a USD 550 Million financing structured by a syndication of international banks.
- Acted for the bookrunners and mandated lead arrangers and Standard Chartered Bank as documentation agent in the USD 460,000,000 syndicated facilities to a multilateral development bank.
- Advised a multinational petroleum company on the acquisition of companies in various African countries including Mauritius to the value of USD 1 Billion.
- Advising to Agence Francaise de Developpement in the structuring of “green” financing lines with local banks.
- Advising a consortium of international development and commercial banks in the financing of the first wind farm project in Mauritius of a value of USD 65M.
- Advising a major international Northern-American bank in the acquisition of equity in a local bank.
- Acted as Mauritian counsel to BPCE IOM on the sale of its entire shareholding in Banque des Mascareignes to Banque Central Populaire.
- Advisor to a major financial services holding company in relation to the holding of its various banking structures in sub- Saharan African countries.
- Advisor to the Mauritius Commercial Bank Limited in relation to the financing of activities of a major African telecommunication group of companies in Africa.