Expertise
Covering regulated financial services, transactions, private wealth and the disputes that follow.
All expertiseIndependent business law firm · Mauritius
Celerity Prime advises financial institutions, investment funds, corporations, investors and private clients on sophisticated Mauritian and cross-border matters.
USD 1bn
Note programme
Lead counsel on the establishment of a USD 1 billion note programme
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Representative matters
Across funds, financial services, corporate, private wealth and disputes
2022
Founded
Established in Port Louis as an independent practice
Africa · India · Middle East
Cross-border reach
Transactions supported across three regions
The firm
Celerity Prime was founded in late 2022 as a boutique practice with a deliberate focus: corporate law and financial services, advised on with the precision those sectors require. The firm has since grown into a multidisciplinary team of barristers and attorneys.
Our lawyers combine Mauritian qualification with international training and, in several cases, experience gained inside international firms and a Mauritian investment bank. That combination shapes the advice — it is grounded in Mauritian law, but written for clients who are making commercial decisions across several jurisdictions at once.
About the firmExpertise
We act for start-ups, sophisticated investors, private clients, investment funds and financial institutions — most often where a matter is regulated, cross-border, or both.
All eight practicesGetting licensed, staying licensed, and knowing where the perimeter sits.
Representative matter
Payment Intermediary Services licence applications
Fund structures that survive contact with investors, regulators and administrators.
Includes
Representative matter
MUR-denominated retail fund platform with two open-ended sub-funds
Transactions, governance and the agreements a business actually runs on.
Representative matter
Central African Republic carbon-credit and climate-finance structure
Structures for families, and the fiduciary judgment to keep them sound.
Representative matter
Enforcer services for Mauritius purpose trusts
Recovery, enforcement and the disputes that follow financial structures.
Representative matter
Litigation analysis on fund administration obligations
Selected experience
Described in anonymised form. Three of sixty-two.
View all 62 mattersActed as lead counsel on the establishment of a USD 1 billion note programme. Prepared note programme documentation for a protected cell company, including noteholder arrangements, placing agent documentation, investor-facing terms and issue mechanics.
Assisted with the establishment, licensing and closing of a Mauritius protected cell company structured as a closed-ended Professional Collective Investment Scheme forming part of a West African sustainable infrastructure private equity platform. The platform targeted climate transition and infrastructure assets across sectors including energy, transport, water, food security, logistics, telecoms and data centres.
Assisted with multiple Payment Intermediary Services licence applications before the Financial Services Commission, including business plan drafting, transaction flow analysis, governance arrangements, outsourcing, AML/CFT frameworks, internal control documentation and responses to FSC queries.
Matters are described in anonymised form to protect client confidentiality. Past matters are not a guarantee of future outcomes.
Mauritius
Mauritius sits where investment into Africa and Asia is most often structured: a hybrid legal system drawing on both civil and common law, a familiar regulatory architecture supervised by the Financial Services Commission, and a treaty network used by fund promoters and corporate groups across three continents.
Our work reflects that position. We have supported transactions across Africa, India and the Middle East, established feeder structures into Indian alternative investment funds, migrated corporate vehicles from Guernsey, and documented climate-finance arrangements originating in Central Africa.
We practise Mauritian law from Port Louis and work alongside our clients' counsel in their own jurisdictions.
Port Louis20°10′S · 57°30′E
Insights
Working notes on the questions clients ask most often.
All insightsA VCC gives promoters a single platform with segregated sub-funds. The segregation is only as strong as the constitutional drafting, the inter-vehicle arrangements and the operational discipline behind it.
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A purpose trust has no beneficiary to hold the trustee to account. The enforcer fills that gap — which makes the appointment, the powers and the succession arrangements far more consequential than they first appear.
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Most unfair-dismissal and redundancy claims in Mauritius turn on procedure, not merits. The Workers' Rights Act sets out exactly what has to happen, and in what order, before an employer can end someone's employment lawfully.
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