ABOUT TMI

Thomas More International is a law firm comprising award-winning international solicitors, leading English barristers and Queen’s Counsel, and first-class Mauritian lawyers. TMI’s panel of independent lawyers is equipped to deal with almost any kind of dispute. In the past, its members have represented and advised some of the world’s largest companies and firms, highest net-worth individuals, and a number of governments. Between them, they have decades of experience in international commercial practice, litigation, and arbitration at the highest levels. TMI offers a comprehensive range of services, from advice and drafting in contentious or transactional matters to representation in arbitrations and the courts. TMI also has a panel of arbitrators who regularly sit in commercial disputes around the world. TMI is able to receive instructions, advise, and conduct proceedings in a number of languages.

LEGAL SERVICES

Arbitration

TMI offers a comprehensive range of services in relation to international commercial arbitration. Our team regularly provides counsel and arbitrators in arbitral proceedings internationally. We are also able to provide a venue for arbitration proceedings at our offices in Ebène, and can advise and appear in challenges to arbitration agreements or awards. The arbitration experience at TMI covers the range of TMI’s practice areas.Learn More

Banking and Financial Services

Our team provides advisory and advocacy services in relation to all aspects of banking, finance, and financial services practice, whether local or international and cross-border. We have significant experience in matters relating to loan agreements, mortgages, guarantees, and other security arrangements, fund transfers, assignments of rights and liabilities, and liability for breaches of duty, including cases of fraud.Learn More

Insurance and Reinsurance

Our team has extensive experience in advising and representing clients in relation to insurance disputes. We deal with all types of claims and act for both insurers and insured parties. The team is able to advise on issues of misrepresentation and material non-disclosure, extent of liability, transfer and assignment of policies and proceeds, and different types of loss.Learn More

Corporate Services

TMI is able to offer advice and assistance in the formation of local companies, investment vehicles, and other structures, ensuring compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements and recommending trusted business partners. TMI has significant experience in advising on and preparing contracts for Mauritian and international transactions covering a range of areas.Learn More

Commercial Disputes

TMI advises and appears in relation to all types of commercial disputes, from breaches of contract or professional or statutory duties to shipping, construction, and restitution claims. Our team is able to help whether the case is non-contentious or contentious, and can provide services as advocates or arbitrators, advisors, or in negotiations.Learn More

Insolvency

TMI has a wealth of experience in insolvency proceedings, including international and cross-border insolvency. Our team is able to advise companies and other organisations facing insolvency as well as insolvency practitioners and groups of companies on the conduct of insolvency proceedings and the rights and liabilities that arise. In addition, we are able to assist creditors, whether secured or unsecured, in relation to claims they may have in the insolvency of another.Learn More

Companies and Directors

TMI regularly advises and acts in matters concerning the requirements and liabilities of companies and company directors. We have experience in the full range of company law matters, from directors’ duties and fiduciary liabilities, shareholder disputes (including minority shareholder remedies), and remedies against shadow directors, to issues relating to shareholdings and liabilities to third parties.Learn More

Regulatory

TMI can assist companies, investment vehicles, and other organisations with their regulatory obligations in Mauritius. We can advise you on what is required, review your current compliance, and assist in the preparation of documents and applications to the relevant authorities. Our team can also assist in proceedings brought in cases of non-compliance or disputed compliance.Learn More

TMI AND MAURITIUS

Mauritius is a beautiful and diverse nation, with a thriving legal system that combines elements of the French Civil Code, the common law of England and Wales, and laws passed by the Mauritian Parliament. Increasingly, companies and individuals are choosing to establish themselves in Mauritius, because of the excellent opportunities it offers for investment and trade. The Mauritian financial and construction sectors have enjoyed unprecedented growth in recent years and successive governments have demonstrated their support for international business and investment by providing significant tax incentives. Mauritius’s geographic location and its economic and political stability make it the ideal place from which to conduct business and investment in Africa, the Middle-East, and Asia.

However, navigating Mauritius’s complex legal system is time-consuming and difficult, and can involve significant costs and risks for those unfamiliar with the challenges it brings. Organisations and individuals seeking to carry out business in Mauritius must be confident not only that the advice and representation they receive meets the highest global standards, but also that it is based on a comprehensive understanding of both the local legal framework and the international backdrop.

The TMI panel includes not only first-class international lawyers, but also Mauritian solicitors and barristers. Working closely together, TMI’s lawyers have provided advice to the Government of Mauritius for many years, and have appeared in numerous cases in the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, the highest appeal court for Mauritian matters. Because of this experience, TMI offers clients something they cannot get from other firms: an international standard of legal services with an unrivalled understanding of the Mauritian legal, political, and cultural spheres at all levels. As a result, TMI’s clients can be confident that they will receive easily comprehensible, commercially sound, dependable advice and representation, regardless of the law and practice involved.