Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers-&-Acquisitions-Practice-Area

Seeing your deal through to completion

From multi-listed national corporations, joint ventures to high-net-worth individuals, BLC Robert & Associates has experience in advising on cross-border transactions, with robust expertise in high-profile, intricate and challenging deals.

Our team has advised leading, thriving organisations on all aspects on acquisitions, divestments of companies, businesses and assets among other related services in diverse industries such as banking & finance, real estate financial services, intellectual property, fiduciary companies, information technology and more.

In addition to providing legal advice, our lawyers have the commercial knowledge to provide a seamless advice to assist our clients to achieve the best outcomes in their deals.

Our Expertise

  • Domestic and cross-border acquisitions of private companies
  • Acquisition of listed companies
  • Mergers and amalgamations
  • Shareholders agreements
  • De-listings and corporate restructurings
  • Due diligences
  • Sales of assets business
  • Sales of securities, equity and quasi equity investments, joint ventures

Key Contacts

Recent Works

  • Advising a multinational bank in respect of a sale of its business operations in Mauritius
  • Advising Vivo Energy on its acquisition of Engen International Holdings (Mauritius)
  • Advising a wholly-owned subsidiary of the MCB Group Limited (which owns the biggest bank in Mauritius) on the acquisition of the entire shareholding of Club Med S.A.S in COMPAGNIE DES VILLAGES DE VACANCES DE L’ISLE DE FRANCE LIMITEE.
  • Advising the Seven Energy Group on its sale to the Savannah Petroleum Group.
  • Advising the Mauritius Union Ltd on the aqcuisition of Saham Assurance Kenya Limited.
  • Advising Axis Fiduciary Ltd on the acquisition of a management company in Mauritius.
  • Advising Ocorian Corporate Services (Mauritius) Limited on its merger with Estera Management (Mauritius) Limited.
  • Advising Vivo Energy Limited in respect of a joint venture with Kuku Foods East Africa Holdings for the opening of more KFC outlets across Vivo’s service stations in Africa.
  • Advising the trading corporation of the Toyota Group in respect of an investment in a Ugandan company through Mauritius.
  • Assisting in the sale of an African cable-TV operator business and conducted due diligence in relation to its various target global business companies incorporated in Mauritius.
  • Advising Baring Private Equity Asia, one of the largest and most established independent private equity firms in Asia in connection with the acquisition of three Mauritius-based management companies.
  • Advising a leading operator of senior residence in France on the capital structuring and development of a senior serviced residence in Mauritius.
  • Advising Goldman Sachs with respect to its investment in Jumo World Limited, the largest and fastest growing technology platform for operating inclusive mobile financial services marketplaces.
  • Advising Dentressangle Initiatives on the acquisition of shares in Sun Resorts Limited, a renowned chain of hotels in Mauritius which is also listed on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius.
  • Advising Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking division in respect of the sale of its Corporate Services business to the Vistra Group.
  • Advising a Mauritian corporation in relation to the disposal of its subsidiary in Malawi and acquisition of a minority stake in Seychelles corporation by means of a share exchange agreement.
  • Advising on the structuring of a not-for-profit organisation for the purpose of running universities offering a unique course and degree programmes for youth in Africa.
  • Advising a multinational petroleum company on the acquisition of companies in various African countries including Mauritius to the value of USD 1 Billion Advising a multinational petroleum company on the acquisition of companies in various African countries including Mauritius to the value of USD 1 Billion

Related Expertise